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News image A Generous Election: What's The Small Idea?

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Paul Northup
Generation or insulation? Time to get our houses in order. The government’s recently announced micro-generation scheme is great news. Isn’t it? If you install small-scale renewable energy generating capability into your house there will be a guaranteed...

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News image Messy Generosity

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Paul Northup
The first trip of the year back up to the allotment (I know, we’re slacking) brings the truth sharply back into focus: when it comes to living a Generous life with kids in tow, things get pretty late and pretty messy. Let me explain. It just so happens...

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News image Just Connect

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Peter Barrett
I was given a book for Christmas entitled The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane. He tackles the question ‘Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain?’ by embarking on a series of beautifully described journeys, spending nights out on cliff...

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News image A matter of degrees

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Paul Northup
Like most boys of their age, our older two – at six and four – have a lurid love of a pseudo-scientific tale I tell them. It’s a tale that, in turn, some other adult told me as a child. About how a frog won’t jump out of a saucepan of water as it’s...

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News image Changing behaviour – sometimes takes just three days

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Paul Northup
Recently I re-learned a valuable lesson in terms of the way we manage our children. I think it might be applicable to the Generous journey. See what you think. You know how you get stuck with things? Not so much in a rut, as in a pattern? Resigned...

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News image Global Generosity?

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Peter Barrett
I read recently that the cost of 2007’s natural disasters was $63 billion dollars. That’s about the same as the amount made available in 2008 to bail out two UK banks: RBS and Lloyds Banking Group. The world can make hard cash appear if it needs...

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News image Spend less and be more Generous

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Annie Porthouse
In 1647, the English Parliament passed a law that made Christmas illegal. Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas festivities, considering feasting and revelry on a ‘holy day’ immoral. Anybody caught celebrating Christmas was arrested. The ban...

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