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"
Greater fool
In You We Trust: hope you had a happy USIndependence Day! Change. We're being bombarded with opportunities to so do because global millennial environments are proving to be utterly VUCA. But what's happening with the much vaunted "new-normal?" OK sure, things aren't the same as yesterday (the passing river &c.),
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
Happy intentions
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
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
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 &
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
