carbon bites – Composting
Composting draws down carbon Have you seen the new bins opposite Cornelia’s? Eveline’s composting initiative Growing on Food Waste is an excellent example of how carbon can be sequestered and turned into soil. If you don’t do it already get a bin and start composting in your garden. Or go
carbon bites – CO2info
Our community carbon emissions It’s time to calculate our carbon emissions for 2018. As a Findhorn Foundation co-worker, a Cluny or Park resident, or if you are running a business with its office/operations at the Park, you should have received an email with a link to a web-based survey. If
carbon bites – Sunday Slot
Attend Findhorn "Sunday Slots" which feature a raft of carbon related initiatives The Sunday Slot this week will feature a raft of carbon related initiatives that have been evoked, at least in part, by the Climate Conference in April. It will include a report of how the conference itself is
UNhabitat – Findhorn Ecovillage
East, M. (2018). Current thinking on sustainable human habitat: the Findhorn Ecovillage case. Ecocycles, 4(1), 68-72. https://doi.org/10.19040/ecocycles.v4i1.107
Scottish Community Regeneration nomination
We are pleased to announce that Park Ecovillage Trust (Park Ecovillage, FindhornBenefit Charity) has been nominated for the 2018 SURF Community Regeneration Awards in the Housing Category, for the West Whins Co-housing Cluster. West Whins in December 2017 Other SURF Community Regeneration Project Areas are: Youth Employability, Creative Regeneration,
Greenhouse Emissions by Sector
Check out the planet's CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, by sector here. The figures give perspective to the areas I can individually adapt my life in, in order to do my part in lowering humanity's ecological footprint. And of course, where two or more gather... we create a multiplier effect.
CO2’s a GO(ing)!
published 8 December 2017 in the Rainbow Bridge:
GHGs and present CO2 emitters
Check out this World Resources Institute blog with a fascinating interactive view on the major causes of global greenhouse emissions. It is well worth taking some time to study and review it; [vertical-spacer] and some interesting up2date comparable national GHGemitter statistics and data here from the World Bank about aviation Transport.
Fund the change you want to see
Donating funds to PET is a tangible way to contribute to concrete and dynamic initiatives making positive change happen TODAY in the Park Ecovillage, Findhorn— apart from volunteering with us... Your donation supports our community beneficiaries and spreads the positive news that IT'S POSSIBLE to do things differently. We are
East Whins Story
PET raised funds for and in 2013, built 4 out of 25 units on the East Whins (EW) site. History Development of private housing in The Park accelerated in the early 2000's on The Field of Dreams. In 2010 a proposal for developing 25 homes created the opportunity for Community-Owned affordable
West Whins Story
Photo credit: John Maher In 2016 PET raised funds for, and in 2017 built a cluster of 6 small flats on the West Whins (WW) site of the Findhorn Ecovillage. Design Complementing the relatively big East Whins (EW) homes (see map) to have a wider range of properties in
EcoKit teaching / Tallinn University
News: Representatives of the Findorn eco village trained Estonian teachers in TU 16.12.2013. The representatives of the Findorn ecovillage in Scotland, who visited Tallinn University in the beginning of December, held a supplementary seminar about the environment and sustainable development for teams from middle- and high schools and vocational schools.
