ABOUT KAMRAN’s Blog and GUEST BLOG
I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
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A Journey Back in Time
The World Needs More Hippies
They have Won the Battle of Ideas, Vision and Values
From mindfulness, meditation, yoga, music festivals to biodiversity, solar panels, environmentalism, recycling, eco-building and construction, using natural, non-toxic materials, incorporating natural light, plants and shapes, connecting with mother nature and the entire web of life, racial and gender equality, minimalism and simplicity, sustainability, organic farming, veganism, anti-war movement,..., the slow march of progress has revealed an inarguable truth: Hippie values have won.
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In this Blog, I wish to introduce you to a hippie, an activist and campaigner, a visionary, a values-led capitalist, a guru, who took action in the interest of the common good, a man who changed London and the UK, and in the process had a major impact on the world, on how we live, eat, consume, produce and enjoy this journey we call life. His name was Nicholas Saunders (1938-1998), ’a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats…
‘Yet Saunders himself remains relatively unknown. When he died in 1998, he received few obituaries, and since then his fame has receded further. Even now, it’s hard to pin down exactly who Saunders was, not least because he was so many things at once: a hippy, a capitalist, a pioneer, a property developer, a drugs advocate, a social inventor, a greengrocer, a visionary.’- More on these later.
By Now Surely We all Know that the Hippies Were Right After All
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