“Happy” COP26! Everybody. Buying local produce (20-50km radius) is carbon emission decreasing, it’s keeping disposable income within our local economy, it’s investing in our own county. Is this new thinking? No. It was pre-industrial UK reality, and M.K. Gandhi successfully advocated the social, economic and political advantages of manufacturing & consuming only local products already […]
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Just do it, RIGHT?!
We’ve been talking about the New Normal since the first statistical decreases in this pandemic’s infections/hospitalisations/deaths. “Enough talking,” say I. Surely for Findhorn Ecovillagers and their supporters the “New Normal” can’t really be called cutting edge any more…😵 Heck, if you’re having difficulty doing the New Normal then perhaps it’s too late😉? As I still […]
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 are one&all perfectly formed and one&all made in […]
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 offset projects! The meaningful reform […]
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 and avoid its most dangerous […]
Neighbourhood care
introducing: Outside the Box’s “Food Buddies” Project. This is a resource which aims to help neighbours and carers of older people get the right food during these difficult times. The resource can be viewed on their website; also have a look here for dementia-friendly meals. Some souls will hear My voice distinctly, others will act […]
A drop in food
The Heli-view in our food series… As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN May 2020 report warns. More people are going hungry, an annual study by the Food & Agriculture Organisation has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five […]
