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"
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
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
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
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
SOSoil
Firstly, Happy Easter season to you! In a rare conjunction, three major holidays of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are occurring at the same time this year. So why don't we emphasise the positive blessings of UNITY in a way which precludes just evangelism and one-way dialogue, but makes the most
Manifesting
Hello valued reader! April sees PET's new Financial Year beginning. "April Fools" rang in the month, and today is the International Day of Creativity & Innovation. Linking these diverse bits of info to PET's vision, which is "to encourage social development, environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing in the whole
Elephant/ballet dancer?
Of course we already know who/what produces the world's Greenhouse Gasses today...[mfn] https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/faq/what-are-the-main-ghg-emissions-by-sector/[/mfn] Here are the up-to-date Findhorn Ecovillage carbon (equivalent) offsetting figures since PETs carbon offsetting service started in December 2017. Nota Bene: during the last five "pandemic waves" (a) we have not been travelling so much, (b) Cluny
Hearts&minds
A movie[mfn]"RFK," a 2002 tv bio-pic https://youtu.be/VbHemHty-ck[/mfn] about Robert F. Kennedy after his brother's sad demise, brought home some of the myriad possible, valid concepts for achieving happiness. That universal -- not just American -- "Pursuit of Happiness" was also the (personal) goal of each of the Findhorn Founders, Eileen
