What’s your morning ritual?
On work days I’m up at about 6am. I feed my pigs, Hazel and Acorn, and fill their water, and then drive over the Bowland Fells to the factory in Blackburn where Community Clothing is based. I enjoy the ritual of saying hello to everyone on the shopfloor (I know things are OK if I get a cheery ‘hello’ back) then I’ll make a brew and get started on the day.
I feel optimistic about …
A growing thoughtfulness about what we buy and who we buy it from. So many people who’ve read my book [Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier] tell me it has changed the way they think about shopping, how they’re choosing what to buy based on the good it might do for others, and that makes me very proud.
What makes you angry?
The crazy greed of some people. Treating millions of people, and the planet, like shit so you can send a bunch of idiots into (sort of) space boils my blood.
