What do we do as you walk into collapse? Do you just lie down and let it happen? Do you say sorry, it's too late. We've cooked the books. we've cooked the climate, and it's over. And I, like all of you often have that feeling of despair.

And yet I look around, and I see young people and babies and children that we brought into the world. And I feel we can't just say it's over, you know.

This evening we hosted a really engaging workshop with Aryanisha Lawes for members of POWER focusing on techniques for connecting with people who don't believe in Climate Change - which is certainly something many of us here at the Power Station can find quite stressful.

Aryanisha is a graduate of Cambridge University, a devoted Buddhist and long-established coach - and she’s brilliant at helping people with this sort of thing.

Read a journal of now and future action on this street and beyond here. A speculative fiction and reality of how the POWER STATION is nurtured and grows out from the site we now try to secure via Community Share Offer.

We recently spent a wonderful afternoon filming with Bill Sharpe from the International Futures Forum, one of the leading exponents of the Three Horizons model which provides an interesting way of developing what Bill calls “Future Consciousness” to collectively deal with the unknowns lurking around the corner.

While welcoming the extension of help for people struggling to pay fuel and energy bills - this budget is deeply flawed in relation to the structures of inequality and building a more sustainable and resilient system - which takes on the big challenges we're facing.

I wanted to share with you a brilliant Guardian interview with Naomi Klein author of such powerful dives into how the forces that shape the modern world work (and how dystopian they are) as No Logo, Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything.

Hilary wrote a journal charting our nights on the rooftop in November and December.

I believe it IS possible to find, create and make the tools necessary to detox our thinking - but we’re not there, not by a long chalk. We need to learn from those who’ve done something like this before.

Energy bills, especially in the UK, have rocketed, with further price hikes planned for October. Likewise, we continue to live in a time of climate emergency, with the urgent need to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions. Both factors led me to have a serious think about my energy usage.

I’ve feared for the world for so many years. But at last I could see a way to take direct action that would be a legacy for my grandkids and all kids of the future – to make a home that didn’t deplete the environment. So eco it had to be.

Come and learn some top tips for reducing your energy usage now. Learn about options for insulating your home and tell us the challenges you are facing. Hear from Waltham Forest Council about what they are doing to help you manage your energy bills this winter.

“What is a liminalist?” asked Dan Edelstyn in a recent message exchange after I listed it as one of the things I am. Edelstyn, alongside his wife Hilary Powell are overlady and lord of a wonderful artistic / economic / technological / documentary / community building and strengthening project named POWER.

Playing Fantasy Prime Minister, this is what I would do day 1 on entering office to tackle the Gas Crisis.

The rocketing price of gas is driving up the price of electricity going into the grid - including from sources that do not use gas! How can this be?

Its closure reminds me how reality is not much more than a stage set and it disappears as fast as it’s created.

On immense, deserted beaches flanked by giant dunes, the children gather stones and clamber rocks. After my forays into the community centre library I can share that this Lewisian Gneiss is 3 billion years old – some of the oldest rock in the world. There are no fossils because they were formed before life on earth. The words leave my mouth but still I have vertigo. Thinking of deep time, our place in the universe - precious, precarious life.

I wanted to take a step back from our grand vision and look at some very simple things that might just make the difference between coping and not coping over the coming months. I don’t have all the answers – some might say I don’t have any of them! - but here we go………….

How would any of us feel if we had signed up for a “100% Renewable” energy tariff, to supply the electricity for our household, but found our money was being used to pay gas, coal and nuclear fuelled power stations for the electricity we are using? That is what most of our energy supply companies are doing.