Carbon Footprint assessment 2019
Executive summary on P2. [vertical-spacer] Please remember to actively calculate, offset and further reduce your personal Carbon Footprint. Using the PET Carbon Offsetting Service is an easy way to do so which also supports the Community. Thank you for your mindfulness. click here for the assessment pdf
GreenRecovery
An informal alliance has been launched in the European Parliament on the back of calls from 12 EU environment ministers who have signed an appeal for a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The “green recovery alliance” was launched on 14 April by the chair of the European Parliament’s committee
Climate fare
The food sector, which includes farming, silvopasture, agroforestry, grazing, food waste, and dietary choices—is one of the two largest contributors to global warming, the other being transport. As a solution, it has the potential to be the largest sector in terms of its contribution. It can not only reduce and
carbon bites – Community & Footprint update
We are half way into the period allotted for compiling our 2019 Park Ecovillage Carbon Footprint and to date 36 residents & FFstaff/co-workers, 2 tenants, and 3 organisations have filled in the survey. If this does NOT include you, PLEASE take the ten minutes or so required to send your
Findhorn Community update
This makes for an interesting read. Enjoy.
Carbon Offset results
Below are the quarterly updated Carbon Offset results of the Findhorn Ecovillage Community, from the start of PET's Offset Service in December 2017. (Please note our Financial Year runs from 1April-31March.) A big thank you to all who have offset their carbon emissions through our service. This is one of
carbon bites – Offset Calculator update
What a great contribution our people have been making at XR London (and elsewhere)! If that inspires you, we have good news: PET has improved its carbon tool for you. It’s now easier to access and you can also figure out the carbon effect not only of travel but of
Scotland’s Climate Week
Scotland’s Climate Week is 7-13 October. Check out the activities: http://www.greenerscotland.org/scotland%E2%80%99s-climate-week-tackling-the-climate-emergency-together
Greening Finance!
Here's an interesting and practical example of a 'community' making informed, small, real-world choices and simultaneously affecting actual, small, environmental change in one of the world's great desert regions, to all of our advantage! We don't have to go that far —geographically—just make the best choices we are able to!
Global Climate Strike 2019
As you will be aware, a Global Climate Strike has been called for this coming Friday 20th. By popular request, the Down To Earth film will be shown again as part of the Climate Strike Day on Friday 20th September at 7.30pm in St John’s Church Hall Forres. £5. Please
Celebrate your sustainable community
On the 21st of September 2019 European transformational communities will again be celebrating their practical sustainability solutions. Also on that date for the first time, American sustainable communities will do the same. Local, citizen or community-led initiatives (like those of the Findhorn Ecovillage) are adding up to something incredibly big
Sustainable development
A phrase that has about as many meanings as people who use it —Dr. Paul Raskin. Add to this the disconnect I may feel with a subject that seems to stymie highly resourced intergovernmental organisations, transnational corporations and civil society at large! And yet only within me lies the answer
