What’s in that bottle? How do you know what’s in the toiletries and cosmetics you buy? Chances are the label and the packaging are the first things you look at to check if your product is free from ingredients of concern such as parabens, mineral oils, phthalates, silicones, synthetic fragrances and colours and GM and […]
Soil Association Annual Conference 2012, Royal Horticultural Halls, London, 2 March 2012 This year’s conference is a celebration of innovation in food and farming. The day will be full of talks and workshops exploring this theme from two different perspectives: from a technical perspective looking at the scientific and technical progress being made in organic […]
How fantastic to be featured this week on Life by Me!
In case you haven’t come across it yet, the website Life by Me is dedicated to sharing meaning. It asks one question of all sorts of people – “What is most meaningful to you?” – and then every day it features one original answer.
I’m humbled to find my face amongst a real stellar collection of individuals, one that evens the playing field between, as they put it, world leaders and mums, Nobel Peace Prize recipients and fishermen and media moguls and prison inmates.
What links us is the power of a personal story to evoke a meaningful conversation. Please take the time to visit the site and be inspired.
Infrequently Asked Questions – a game for grown-ups
A big THANK YOU to Eric Francis and his wonderful colleagues at Planet Waves – the most complete, most innovative and most switched-on astrology site on the web – for giving such a generous plug to my new project Infrequently Asked Questions.
The IAQ project launch was featured in the Friday November 18 subscriber edition and then again on the Daily Astrology pages on November 22. I have been completely blown away by the huge response and the number of people who have visited the site since then!
The project itself – which consists of two beautiful virtual decks of cards – is rapidly evolving. It is a game – but with a serious underlying purpose: to get us to ask more meaningful questions about our own personal and cultural issues. The decks are full of the kind of questions we often forget to ask when we are tired, stressed, overwhelmed or just caught up in the autopilot mode of modern life.
I hope visitors here will also take the time to explore the IAQ site, play with the cards and hopefully find it both interesting and enlightening. If so, let your friends know and please take a moment to tweet and facebook it so others can do the same.
I am an award-winning campaigner, journalist and author. A former editor of the Ecologist magazine Pat has run campaigns for Paul McCartney’s Meat-Free Monday, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and Neal’s Yard Remedies. In 2011, my work leading the campaign, Cows Belong in Fields, won CIWF the Observer Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year. In 2014 I co-founded the campaigning group, Beyond GM.
I am a qualified psychotherapist and the author more than 40 books for adults and children and I was inducted into Who’s Who in 2014. In addition to my work with Beyond GM, I work occasionally with the film production company Ecostorm. I also currently edit and oversee NYR Natural News – a campaigning natural health website, continue to write in a freelance capacity and make regular public speaking and media appearances.
I have been a trustee of both the Soil Association and the Organic Research Centre in the UK and am currently on the advisory board of GMO Free USA and am a trustee of the investigative media agency, Eyewitness.
To read more about me see here.
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I am interested in and available for short- and long-term projects/consultancies, and am particularly keen on those that focus on food, sustainability and culture change. I am also an experienced public speaker.
My unique professional experience means I bring a variety of skills to any work I do, including effective and persuasive communication and writing skills, an holistic perspective on sustainability and change, and both intuitive and analytical ability. I am well known in my field and comfortable working in most fora.
Recent projects/consultancies include work with: Stella McCartney ‘Care’ range, Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday, Friends of the Earth, Compassion in World Farming, Soil Association, Neal’s Yard Remedies.
Recent public speaking engagements: UK Aware, Oxford University PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Society, Durham Union Society (Durham University), Bristol Festival of Nature, World Preservation Foundation, Women’s Institute.
I'm a highly experienced journalist and award winning campaigner specialising in environment and alternative health. I'm also the author of several books for adults and children and a qualified psychotherapist.
