Sentenced to life with hard labour in aged care so discontinued much of the online activity, including the nutrition blog and radio broadcast. Will persist with Substack as long as the brain allows. Memberships and community engagement as listed below remain unchanged.

Deep Ecology is a perspective in environmental philosophy based in the belief that humans must radically change their relationship to nature from one that values it solely for its usefulness to human beings to one that recognises that nature has an inherent value. It promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs. It's not a scientific discipline rather an eco-philosophy derived from intuitive ethical principles. View video.

Pantheism is a diverse family of philosophical and religious beliefs that equate reality with divinity. Pantheistic concepts date back thousands of years, and pantheistic elements have been identified in diverse religious traditions. Most notably, pantheism refers to the belief that the totality of being—called by various names such as Nature, the universe, the cosmos—is a self-organising unity that needs no distinct, supernatural creator, and that pantheists can address it with the same sense of reverence and dulia as theists attribute to their gods. Read more.

In its purest form, an essentialist lifestyle is surrounding oneself with what provides the most value in life and removing everything that is simply excess. In more recent times, it's also become about living responsibly, ethically, sustainably. It's around these principles that I plan to live out my years. Experiences, community, simplicity and living in harmony with nature will always take precedent over the material. A consumer of life, not just of things. View video.