Perma-food-culture
"Classical" businesses are starting to talk more about the opportunity profit in "culture" over that of "cost accounting". 2blogs ago we looked at the idea of "true cost" calculation.[mfn]https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/2022/08/nuts-and-fruitcakes/[/mfn] Even the Park Ecovillage at Findhorn is studying the possibilities of larger scale food&energy production, in line with their enlightened "0carbon30"
Eileen’s Birthday
Today is a special day. Eileen Caddy (26 August 1917 – 13 December 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known to the world as one of our Community's Founders. In Wikipedia's words: "the commune she started in 1962 with husband Peter Caddy and friend Dorothy Maclean
Nuts and fruitcakes?
Prince Charles is one of the champions of TruePricing[mfn]https://trueprice.org/consumer/[/mfn] (True Cost Accounting) and organic farming. In the past, he has made explicit statements about the need for True Cost Accounting tools. "We have to find a way of valuing in financial terms the increasing damage done to the earth’s life
HoWeCare
On 10th July, the CCC hosted the historic "Findhorn Tea Party" with homebaked cake, to highlight the material supporters of its work and achievements to date. After the fact, CCC-Coordinator Laura Shreenan mused digitally: "First and foremost I would like to extend my personal deeply heartfelt gratitude to the people
CO2 emissions fly again
Happy Holidays! 11 July was World Population Day -- a good time to think about the 80:20 population rule re. having enough money to (a) make "good" choices with, and (b) "make good" the glocal results of choices our pursuit of money has unwittingly helped to create. A jumbo jet
Greater fool
In You We Trust: hope you had a happy USIndependence Day! Change. We're being bombarded with opportunities to so do because global millennial environments are proving to be utterly VUCA. But what's happening with the much vaunted "new-normal?" OK sure, things aren't the same as yesterday (the passing river &c.),
VUCA food
Did you know 20 June was world refugee day? Major factors leading to refugee migrations are war, economic & climate conflict, government persecution or there being a significant risk of these. Topical, yes! But we have an even bigger problem: fast rising utilities&food prices at home, abroad and planet-wide. End
Food_resources4u
Fyi some tasty links harvested from our "food" blog category.[vertical-spacer] # Food’s environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, the below report consolidated data covering five environmental indicators; 38,700 farms; and 1600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. Impact
Elevate, in action
Why? Why? Why? Are we there yet? Recurrent travel themes for children and adults. Young&old live in a puzzle. And to counter unsatisfactory official guidance around what life is really about, we adults comfort ourselves with (depressed) acquiescence and/or distractions -- faking a semblance of control ... Why not repeat
Following ur is rational
Happy World Environment Day! Encouraging, developing, protecting and improving it -- which PET officially does -- encompasses (1) choosing to change the way our community does things (2) deciding the better way, and (3)planning when -- in the main sooner rather than later! Of the above three action moments, the last two are easier to
Thanks Fasil
PET's Finance Director Fasil Bogale, ACMA, CGMA is leaving Scotland to explore the wider world with his wife, Sally, and daughter Willow. After ten years of unstinting service to our organisation - a position for which he never accepted remuneration - PET releases Fasil with our warmest wishes that he
Hope of humankind
Which hope? "Community" or Hegel's "self as the will-to-power" in conflict with another's "will-to-power?" Individualism or communalism? A poignant discussion point in today's world: on the stages of the Ukraine & N.Korea, of ecovillages, family homes -- wherever individuals, desiring to gather together, choose to continue/slow down or even stop
