UK Aware is a great show and I’m pleased to be able to help out at the last minute. I’m joining Author Paul Murray to talk about translating our desire to do the right thing for the environment into actions that add up to sustainable living. We’re on at 4:30 on Friday.
Come and join us!
My Journey with a Remarkable Tree is making the short journey to the Sussex Eco Awards on Wednesday 15th September. The book will be given to all guests at the Awards and I hope that it’s message of the need for a more sustainable way of living will make it’s way much further.
I’m pleased to be able to support the awards as the event really does seem to have a true green heart. I wish all the nominees the best of luck!
If you received a book and would like to know more about my events, writing or work you can contact me through the details attached to your copy of my book… or through this site.
I’m chuffed to be asked to be a guest speaker at this years UK Aware show. I’ll be talking about the unseen consequences of our shopping choices and their connections to environmental destruction … and perhaps offering a few positive alternatives through mindful consumerism.
My slot is Saturday 17th at 2.30 pm. Come and enjoy a great day out with some inspiring people, ideas and products.
There’s still a limited number of reduced price tickets available … get them now for £6!
Four pages into this book I was doubting I would read much further. Another four pages and I was hooked. Ken Finn starts out seeking mystical spirit trees in Cambodia – and ends on a mission to expose the sytematic destruction of ancient forests for the global timber trade.
This is an inspirational book, travel writing combined with the story of the birth of an activist. It is a book which can hardly fail to have you thinking and asking questions about the timber we use and the furniture we buy.
Although Finn includes figures and statistics from his researchin the book, this is never dry text book reading. It’s a book that you will want to keep reading until you have finished – and a book you will want to pass on to friends.
Source: My Global Warming Solutions
My book “My Journey with a Remarkable Tree” will be given to all 360 guests at this years Green Awards. I’m excited as this will be the largest single ‘release’ of my work since it was published in 2005. In part this has been made possible by my publishers Eye Books who have helped create the opportunity to use the book to raise awareness of the plight of the world’s forests.
Thanks go to Green Awards for making it happen and of course good luck to all the candidates in this year’s awards.
Over the week-end beginning Friday 18th September I’ll be opening the door to No. 16 Westbourne Terrace to show the work of artist Vanessa Perry. I’m especially pleased that Vanessa has agreed to grace to the walls of my newly completed renovation project with her canvasses.
I’ve been working on the house for nearly three years now and basically rebuilt it from the roof down, sympathetically restoring it to a something of a former glory … although the kitchen would probably amaze the Edwardian period farm workers who occupied it in it’s first flush… although there wouldn’t have been any flushing toilet either.
Anyway check out Vanessa’s website for images of her work… all of her work on display will be on sale … And that includes the house by the way!
We’ll be open daily from 10:30 am till 6:00 pm for viewing, delicious home made cakes and tea. All the proceeds of the cake sales will go to the Cambodia Trust and Vanessa has pledged a slice of art sales too!
See you there.
Ollie and I have our very own radio show. We go out Monday’s 2pm till 3pm on Radio Reverb 97.2 FM with a repeat show on Saturday morning. We’re broadcast across Brighton City and to a wider audience across the Internet at www.radioreverb.com
Our show is Brighton centric featuring the Local & Fresh sounds of the city. We play live studio sets from up and coming artists as well as some of our old favourites from our Benefit Culture nights. We’re also having great fun digging in the attics and cupboards of our friends for rare and wonderful recordings and broadcasting our shows from their kitchens and front rooms… keeping it real and relaxed.
You can download the latest show here … tell your friends and listen in!
Lost Toys
If you came to our September gig you will have been dazzled by Mr Paradox. Well tomorrow (30th Oct) night he’ll be back to tell us about his latest project. Here’s what it’s all about…
“On November 1st 2008 I will be attempting a 40 day water-only fast. Yes that’s right I am totally crazy! Believe it or not 2 years ago on the 10th May I completed my first 40 day fast by eating the tastiest mango ever to enter the mouth of man! I lost 40 pounds in 40 days as well as untold amounts of toxins and psycho-energetic “entities”. I also gained a completely new perspective on food and eating as well as a number of insights into desire, craving, monkey mindness, emptiness, energy, awareness and unconditional happiness!
I honestly never thought i do it again, but it seems my inner guidance has decided otherwise. Last time i was guided on my journey by the yoga teaching, prana inhaling, meditation adept known as Anna Mendham and without her wisdom and support I (who had never previously completed even a one day fast) would certainly never reached the finish line. This time there will be no Anna…and I’m scared sh*!less. You see unlike last time now i know what i’m in for…a true test of will, faith, nerve and guts (literally) ! But I reckon if its good enough for Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Jesus & John Lennon…then its good enough for me.
I have chosen to support the Cambodia trust, because earlier on this year I lost my leg due to a diving accident and after hearing stories about the plight of mine victims and amputees in Cambodia, I was reminded how lucky I am to have the National Health Service as well as family & friends. Disabled people in Cambodia, far worse off than me depend on the Cambodia Trust. So its a charity close to my heart and its focus on using its funds to empower the underprivileged disabled means a little of your money goes a long way in helping to create a massive improvement in the life of the beneficiary.
So if you think a 40 day fast is a big enough challenge please sponsor me for a daily amount of 50p…£1… or more!” Donate here at Just Giving
Yours starvingly
Rodney Chris Paradox
This month Caduceus Magazine leads with an article by me on deforestation. I was pleased to be asked to contribute as it covers some important topics and is really is a well put together publication.
For now you’ll have to buy a copy to read it!
