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I\u2019ve been doing a lot of thinking this week about the purpose of this newsletter.<\/p>\n
We all love nature, the outdoors, adventure.<\/p>\n
We all know the planet\u2019s in a bit of a pickle.<\/p>\n
I\u00a0need to do more than that.<\/p>\n
I\u00a0think my mission is to share stories that can fill us with hope and optimism, to help us as individuals\u00a0move society\u00a0towards positive tipping points through mass individual action, and to show that the changes required can be fun and make life better.<\/p>\n
Enough of the doom and fear!<\/p>\n
No more hair shirt, miserable martyrdom! The great reconnection is about living adventurously, choosing solutions rather than overwhelmed paralysis, and taking action \u2013 now! \u2013 solutions that improve our lives and change things for the better. It\u2019s better than burying our head in the sand \/ hoping someone else will do something.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m going to try to move from doom to hope.<\/p>\n
Below are eight problems that really matter to me, and which I\u00a0want to try to fix.<\/strong><\/p>\n You already know them all!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n First of all, I\u2019ll list the problems. Wallowing in horrifying statistics is something I spend a lot of time doing, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s very effective at getting through to people!<\/p>\n Then I\u2019m going to reframe the problems in more hopeful, solutions-focussed\u00a0ways.<\/p>\n These are all things I can actually do something about. It bothers me, for example, that if the cement industry were a country, it would be the world\u2019s fourth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide. But this is not my strong point (to put it mildly!). So it feels smarter to push at open doors, go for the low hanging fruit, and any other similar metaphor and clich\u00e9\u2026<\/p>\n