I recently watched the film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ on TV – for the first time. (Is that something I should be ashamed about?) I came across it by accident while channel flicking and thought it was about time I got to grips with what Al Gore was saying...

Each month, we’ll tell a bit of the story of a Generous member. We’re starting with Olly Willans. We’d spotted some of his comments on the site and then nosed around his company’s website. He looked like great material to begin...

One of the more ambiguous of the sayings of Confucious goes like this: ‘You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making nests in your hair.’ I’ve often wondered about this. But maybe I’ve stumbled...

When you’ve got a posse of little boys you often catch yourself thinking that you’re not being as Generous as you’d like to be. This can sometimes get you down, make you feel like a pretender. But the small changes and lifestyle decisions you make...

Trying to be a Generous parent shouldn’t mean your consumer eye for a good product goes away all together. OK, we don’t want to buy more needless stuff all the time. But we do still have to buy some stuff. And what we do buy – well, we want to make...

Mid-January each year sees ‘Potato Day’ at Dundry’s Nursery close to where we live. It’s a day of pilgrimage. Potato growers, allotment owners, keen gardeners and vegetable aficionados from all over the county converge on a small family-run nursery...

Last week I packed Christmas into four sturdy boxes (and one black sack) and stuffed it in the loft. If you’ve been sensing recently that Christmas is now absent from your life, that’s because it is. It’s in my loft. If you find yourself...