A programme for smaller footprints

Carbon Action Programme (Pilot 2025)

The Carbon Action Programme is a pilot initiative financed through the Berry Burn Trust Fund, enabling PET to offer this first cycle free of participant fees as part of a “smaller footprints” transition programme.

Reducing our carbon footprint

The programme has supported community members, with priority for residents in the Park, to explore how household and individual emissions can be reduced in practical, grounded ways aligned with the Ecovillage Findhorn community’s net-zero pathway.

Starting September 2025, the pilot included 10 participants, who met six times over three months (two-week intervals, 2-hour sessions). Participants used carbon tracking tools, reflective workbooks (based on Carbon Bites), and peer learning to understand and reduce their emissions.

The group combined practical carbon reduction work with reflective and inner dimensions of change, including elements of The Work That Reconnects, supporting participants to move from awareness to action.

Facilitation team

• Margo van Greta – trainer, facilitator of inner transition and regenerative practice with “The Work that Reconnects” of Joanna Macy
• Göran Wiklund – PET carbon advisor, emissions data and climate analysis

Key features

• Carbon footprint measurement (start and end of programme)
• Behaviour change experimentation between sessions
• Practical themes (food, travel, housing, consumption, digital footprint, finance)
• Peer learning and shared experimentation
• Exploration of resilience, adaptation, and systemic change

Dates (2025)

20 Sept, 4 Oct, 18 Oct, 8 Nov, 22 Nov, 6 Dec

10:30–12:30, Family House, the Park Ecovillage

Context

PET’s net-zero pathway aligns with wider commitments across the Ecovillage Findhorn community, Moray, and Scotland. The programme also acknowledges the complexity and uncertainty of the climate crisis while focusing on practical, lived change at community scale.