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
Medicine in kind
PET is about protection AND improvement — environmentally, socially and re. well-being. The last two are being put to a heavy test in these days, interestingly to the advantage of the first... We're all responding quite positively: the air's full of official, sensible Do's & Don'ts; organisations (including us) are
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
Changing our gods
The Holistic Centers Network had a good, short blog read&view subject last week. It's about COmmunity, COnnectivity, COllectivity, the changes that all of us can feel are currently going on around us, and Bioneers. A timely topic for the run up to Xmas.
Self Help communities
The Scottish Rural Network, of which PET is a member, has an interesting blog on self-help communities in South Korea. Pretty far from Findhorn I hear you think; but not the self-help part. It's of interest because it links community skills, the ageing phenomenon and social enterprise. Enjoy the blog.
Co-living
What do you feel/think about it? We have yet another co-word. Co-ol... Some community food for thought... Here’s an urban example of co-living so you can get a feel for thecollective: their mission is "to build and activate spaces that foster human connection and enable people to lead more fulfilling
Relation.ship
Here's a webpage link concerning the key concept behind intentional community, and what the "co-" part of co-housing is all about. source: Dictionary.com As the linked website supports start-up projects, is continually updated with the growing experience of its supporters, and given that the r-word is actually a
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!
Village survival
In a monthly info blog we get, I read a great piece on examples of rural village development. Development of this kind is a complex juggling act of 'soft' and 'hard' investments in both learning and activity: really, it stands or falls with whether we truly believe in our own
Social, cultural community
Why we need community: it helps us LIVE change, rather than just react.
Relationalism
Here's a hopeful sign—identifying a quiet though powerful united-ness— from those great States of America! This made for a brilliant and thought provoking read. Perhaps for you too; the very subject for one of those lazy summer days... https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-relationalist-manifesto/ source: Aspen Institute
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
