Events
World Open Forum 2011
The World Open Forum is a series of talks, debates and discussions on the themes of values, ethics and social and material sustainability. This year it is being held in the Lake District and is open to all.
The English Lake District has been the foundry of some of the most significant ideas of modern Britain and the world. English romanticism, with its emphasis on subjectivity and the self in nature, was given its highest expression by Wordsworth on the Lakeland fells, John Ruskin made the necessary connection between the pathetic fallacy, capitalism and environmental degradation. Harriet Martineau made Ambleside the birthplace of English sociology while Charlotte Mason taught the importance of nature in Education. The National Trust, its aim to preserve and sustain things of value for future generations, began its collection near Keswick.
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