Our technology-driven contemporary existence is driven by a demand for increased productivity, future expansion and growth, but Alex Warren asks us how we reframe our perspective to engage with the instant in which we exist.

Do you live by social clock time, or by your biological chronorhythm? We welcome back Bruce from Day Crafting to explain why the best time to do something may well be different for all of us.

Coffee is a vital part of so many of our morning routines, but how much attention do we give to what we’re drinking and how we prepare it? James Bailey from Workshop Coffee invites us to consider how we can make our coffee routine a well honed craft.

Farmer Chris Smaje invites us to consider our relationship to the land in both the present and long term. Wherever we are in the world, our marriage to the land, to plants, animals and each other needs to be nurtured for future generations.

Taken from her collection of essays 'Funny Weather:Art in an Emergency', Olivia Laing considers the cyclical nature of planting seeds, influenced by the late Derek Jarman.

We sat down to chat with James Cartwright, Editor of Weapons of Reason magazine to discuss the ethos of the publication, the environment, food, family, social inequality and our resulting decision making for the future.

What would happen if we decided to invest in projects that we might never live to see come to fruition? Created for future generations, cathedrals are a great example of long term thinking. Jonathan E Thompson’s TED talk explores the analogy and offers us hope for the future.

We need all the good ideas we can get, but so often our thinking gets cut short. Advocate of the ‘Thinking Environment’, Nancy Kline brings us a clear uncomplicated message, that our thinking process is violated by interruption.