Vivian's resources

This is a list of some of the websites, readings, people and projects I refer to throughout my blog or otherwise find interesting and inspiring. I will update and revise it as I go along...
If you have any suggestions as to what I could add, please leave these in the comments box at the bottom of the page. I am grateful for any suggestions!

Vivian's tree (summertime)

Books

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Schumacher, E.F. (1973) Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, London: Vintage (published 2011)
Mentioned/referred to in blogposts: Blindess, absurdity and meta-economics | Meta-economics (cont.)

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Steel, C. (2009) Hungry City: How food shapes our lives, London: Vintage
Mentioned/referred to in blogposts: Utopian imagination | Interlude: my eternal frustration with smoking... | On food, (super)markets, streets, and smell & co. | Blindess, absurdity and meta-economics

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Wright, H. (2009) Biodynamic Gardening for Health & Taste, Singapore: Floris Books

Mentioned/referred to in blogposts: Concrete jungles and nature: a match made in heaven? (Part one)

Embercombe 

Organisations / Projects

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Capital Growth - A food growing initiative in London: "Capital Growth offers practical help, grants, training and support to groups wanting to establish community food growing projects as well as advice to landowners."

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Cultivate London - Urban agriculture and youth training in London; converts disused land across London into small farms and produces fresh herbs, salad leaves and vegetables.

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Embercombe - "Touching hearts, stimulating minds and inspiring committed action for a truly sustainable world". A great social enterprise; open-minded, warm-hearted and spiritually invaluable. It has fantastic programmes that allow participants to explore their hidden passions and talents, and to reconnect with nature. I have participated in "The Journey" and it has opened up a forgotten as well as a new world within me.
Mentioned/referred to in blogposts: Late summer impressions - from the heart and from a city

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Transition Network - (aka "transition movement") Supports communities that wish to build a more sustainable and self-reliant lifestyle and  future, with emphasis on community values, local products, energy, waste management etc. Totnes is one of the most well-known "transition towns" in the UK.

Vivian's tree (wintertime)

Talks

Brown, Brené The power of vulnerability. This is a TED talk from 2010.

Brown, Brené Listening to shame. This is a TED talk from 2012.

Macartney, Tim ("Mac") Next generation leadership and management. This talk took place at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 9 May 2011 and is truly inspiring, as is Mac himself, who founded Embercombe (see listing under "Organisations" above).