Tomorrow we remember the birthday of Dorothy Maclean at the beginning of the new community development, protection, improvement and wellbeing year! Viva la dolce vita!!! Reflection during the feast days brought to mind the following inspiring “Eileen message” which hangs on the coworker noticeboard at Cluny. It deals with basic questions that are equally valid […]
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Ecotransport
By accident I overheard part of a conversation that really made me laugh: replies one person to her buddy, “[…] my lease ends next month.” Says Buddy, “What? All this time you’ve been on about a hybrid car? I thought we were talking about animals..!” This got me thinking about the largest consumer GHG emitter […]
Buy food locally
“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 […]
Quick&Simple donations
Looking to dona£e GBP Sterling Super Fast&Easy to either PET or PET/CCC? Click one of the images below: These links take you straight to PayPal UK, for GBP £ Sterling donations to the respective “GENERAL FUNDS”. Thank you! If you want to opt in to the UK taxpayer Gift Aid scheme (🙏 ‘cos the government […]
Sustainability
Given the projected COP26 information overload, here’s an additional bunch of links to readable, interesting articles on the subject of sustainability. That’s what COP26 is really about: doing (1) what we humans do=surviving (2) DIFFERENTLY… (3) in future=from today! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Slideshow:50_Specific_Actions_of_Green_Living https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Slideshow:Examples_of_How_Going_Green_Saves_You_Money https://www.bioregional.com/projects-and-services/case-studies/bedzed-the-uks-first-large-scale-eco-village https://eco-villages.eu/en/ Wishing you — neither a good nor bad COP — […]
Feeling potential
Charles Eisenstein‘s essay, The Coronation, published March 2020, has been mentioned in blogs here before. I read it at the end of last year and later, critiques from both sides of the aisle too. Rising (re?)infection figures post 2021-summer-holidays, challenged me to return to it, and to upload a link below for y’all if you’re […]
Happy Eileen’s Birthday
Eileen Caddy MBE (right) was a spiritual teacher and author; one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, Moray Firth, in northeast Scotland. She exemplified the principle of “Deep Inner Listening.” Born: August 26, 1917, Alexandria, Egypt Died: December 13, 2006, Findhorn, United Kingdom Spouse: Peter Caddy (m. 1957–1978), […]
