social sustainability

Uprights behaving badly: Footpaths

September 6, 2010

I’m going to do a series of posts on things I wish those without apparent disability understood or did differently. It is from my perspective as a person who uses a wheelchair, but hope it can be useful more broadly. So to start with: Footpaths: their use and misuses My top 5 things six things [...]

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disability access is like organic fruit

August 24, 2009

Not that long ago, the origin of the fruit and veggies in our supermarkets was a lot less important to the general populous than it is now. Barring the scandals of oil spills and contamination reports we supermarket shoppers were largely content to believe that the fruit and vegetables that were being presented to us [...]

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handbag free to a good home

July 16, 2009

Giving away my handbags in the name of sustainability

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