We can’t all go and live in the woods, of course. But if we resist debt, resist gadgets, and reconnect with nature, the world might just change, writes Mark Boyle

When I’m tired or busy I think about the convenience and sugar-coated allure of the life I left behind. Then I think about its unintended consequences, says Mark Boyle

Being healthy is not about doctors, ambulances and technology. I use natural methods to keep my body in balance, writes Mark Boyle, the Guardian’s Life Without Technology columnist

The Guardian’s Life Without Technology columnist on weaning himself off the news and rediscovering chatting to his neighbours instead

We’re domesticating areas instead of protecting them. Living without technology I’ve found my place in the natural world – and this path could be our salvation

For three months I’ve lived without tech and now realise we need to question its ever-encroaching invasion – before we end up in bed with a sex robot

Reading Thoreau by the fire, fishing for trout, and playing chess over blackberry wine are just some of the pleasure I’ve found since I turned my back on tech