Steamy profits
We had the expert designers for the innovative North Whins "waste water" system[mfn]this is not bullshit, it's about humanure and other human waste water products...[/mfn] onsite on Monday 29 July 2021 and the design phase will complete by the end of August! Here's some background to the current state of
Agile curves
Summer's here, yaay! Possibly less "yaay!" if you're worried about it being bikini/speedo time again... Putting it rather plastically: so above so below ; so within so without ; so mind so matter ; &c. What we put in we get out... But look on the bright side: in spirit terms we
Opportunity for affordable rented flat at ‘West Wings’
Flat 553 at the ‘West Wings’ housing cluster will become available in September 2021. The rent levels are as agreed with the Scottish Rural Housing Fund and are controlled by Moray Council and/or the Scottish Government and the flats are owned and administered by Park Ecovillage Trust Ltd (PET).
Connexions ‘r us
How's this for coincidence, in light of the previous posts on glocal interrelationships, PETs carbon offset strategy for emitters here in Scotland: an article came out mid July about more needed farming support for India, via among other things more, clean & cheaper energy. This is one of PETs 4 non-UK
SUPPORT in action
Great News on the CARBON OFFSETTING front! These last years have been hard on our Community's offsetting results: for whatever reason -- and we'd LOVE to know what these are[mfn]use the comment box below please![/mfn] -- less and less offsets have been purchased, while lockdown-life (eg. home heating, lighting and
Meat on the bone
While volunteering with PET last week, I was struck by a point made in the NFD Energy Master Plan 2021 about bringing PETs carbon offset projects closer to home -- Scotland. According to the report this would make offsetting far more meaningful to hundreds of Park Ecovillage, Findhorn(FEC) residents who
CCCdonations
With respect to the new fundraising program for the Caring Community Circle, the CCC would like to share with you the following update from end June 2021.
Innovation@Findhorn
The NFD, trading arm of the Findhorn Foundation which is one of the key stakeholders in the Findhorn Ecovillage Community, has been exploring innovative models and technical strategies to ensure sustainability advocacy and leadership for the Findhorn Ecovillage in relation to energy. This is very important for PETs carbon strategy
Heavenly politics
Where was your first glimpse of Heaven? In your mind, of course! Were there other people there? Most probably there were. The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn(FEC), as one of many "cities of light," was conceived as a place where Heaven would come to Earth -- another garden of Eden materialised on our
Generation R
#GENERATIONRESTORATION: Ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate RESTORE ECOSYSTEMS TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE, SAVE SPECIES FROM EXTINCTION AND SECURE OUR FUTURE. It's all interconnected like we are. Sorry about that, Separatists! We need to slash greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half by 2030 to hold global warming below 2°C
Social development
First of all, happy World Environment Day. May we all continue to co-create positive physical conditions conducive to developing life on our planet! Community development= social development= ever changing relationships; ie. relations between developing participants vary constantly. We can only plan for progress, not for perfect solutions. That makes for
