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  1. The New Mobile Phone Dilemma Part 1
  2. You can either look at a glass full or half-empty
  3. How my relationship with capitalism is impacting my carbon footprint
  4. Home Energy, Footpaths Challenge
  5. What is your job you do?
  6. Leicester Fixers
  7. And if I am unable to control my emotions
  8. What to do when someone avoid you. Write them a blogpost
  9. Post-truth 2
  10. This week with Eugenie Bitty Arts
All Time Most Popular Posts
  1. To be a successful entrepreneur, you need a genuine love for people 
  2. What my broken boiler taught me
  3. Leicester Fixers focuses on feeling successful and invite others to do the same - A wink to Eric Barker Book - Barking up The Wrong Tree.
  4. Being a Mixed-Raced Post-Doctorate following the Murder of George Floyd
  5. Let's Live Together
  6. Forearm yourself with the Politics of Time and Repair the broken work-centred economy - after reading ''the Refusal of Work'' by David Frayne
  7. About Marle
  8. Leicester Fixers
  9. Money Workshops - Aftermath
  10. Fashionably Compassionate Romantic - Fight against the elements and fracking
  11. Mobile Phone, Joy & Pain 
  12. Interview with my mother
  13. Semantic Web - Web Cleaners - BS job or OCD?
  14. Quetzal
  15. Part 1 : No Water to Draw with or the Colours of Water
  16. Streetbank - Collaborative Consumption is the new Black
  17. Storytelling for paradigm shift #sustainability #circulareconomy
  18. Keynes vs Minsky



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Let's live together

Most families around the world live in communities.  In the western world, this concept has been replaced by a single-family household. Yet, the latter struggle to meet their needs through the ages. With a young family, parents are overstretched with family and work commitment. The olds struggle with illnesses and social isolation.  What can possibly be done? Well, let's live together.  Look up co-housing and specifically retrofit co-housing so we can start where we are to build the community that we dream of.
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Academic Papers and Thesis

For the prolific academic writers, I am yet to add one more to the list. For now I will populate the internet. Lefebvre, Marie; Lofthouse, Vicky; Wilson, Garrath (2018): Towards a circular economy: exploring factors to repair broken electrical and electronics products by users with pro-environmental inclination. Loughborough University. Conference contribution.  https://hdl.handle.net/2134/34474   Lefebvre, Marie (2019): To repair or not to repair: an investigation of the factors influencing prosumer repair propensity. Loughborough University. Thesis.  https://doi.org/10.26174/thesis.lboro.11365325.v1
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How my relationship with capitalism is impacting my carbon footprint?

Published on Footpaths Leicester Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. My carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of my activities. My activities serve capitalism. They serve private owners for profit at the expense of natural resources and human beings. I am trapped and enslaved by capitalism, this is my relationship with it and it impacts dearly on my carbon footprint but also on my wellbeing and sense of belonginess. I am striving to strip myself away from capitalism. I refused to work for large corporate organisations. I refuse to consume excessively. I shop in charity shops, buy in bulk from the Wholefood Coop in Leicester, cycle to work, do not travel by plane. I try to save for some solar panels and an electric car, I try to repair what I own and try to engage others in changing behaviour through campaigning...
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