The regeneration of home pt1

Home...

Home is more than a house, a place of shelter. Home is also feeling, an ideal, an experience. We sense 'home' in many ways, in our body and soul, in our relationships, community and country.

Climate change is changing the way we think about our planet as a home. For over ten thousand years humans existed in a fair climate that allowed us to thrive on this planet. But each year, as the effects of global warming impact all of us, our sense of home is being shaken to its core. And, in correlation, we are seeing a degradation of home on many fronts from the housing market that prices people out and makes rental accommodation expensive and unstable, through to the feeling of being less at home inside our own hearts and minds, with increases in mental health problems, loneliness and workplace stress.

Climate change, that affects every human beings' experience of home, is a clarion call to re-evaluate what home means to us and how to rebuild it. And a new conversation about home can help unite us towards the cultural changes that are required to meet the challenges of environmental breakdown.