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 […]
strategy
2022 what2do?
After another challenging year for sustainable development we know that 2022 will focus internationally on artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, and glass… What in heaven’s name/on earth links these areas together?! The association of women with fish was commonplace in European folk-lore in the past, and in fin-de-siècle art and literature women and “water ha[ve] been […]
More than a process
The holiest month of the year (fact checking led to the shocking😱 conclusion that no one holyday list is definitive…. or unbiased) and its blessings are here, again under pandemic conditions. That makes it once more very rough on geographically dispersed families — extra blessings to them. Thank goodness one&all can fall back on the […]
Net0.30 study Grant
Great news about the Findhorn Ecovillage Community Net0.30 study and PETs 2021 National Lottery Grant application. Here’s the press release: Great news, but stuff doesn’t stop there– ie. with other people offering a climate action smorgasbord for you not to pick and choose from…😱 Admittedly no one individual, body or country can address the climate […]
Climate – cop in
Happy Birthday Findhorn Foundation & Community for the 17th! May you continue to shine forth the brightest of lights for long years to come!! Here’s a beautifully written, balanced and comprehensive short read. In me it inspired faith in my/your ability to affect positive change, hope going forward in the collective effectiveness of our many individual […]
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 […]
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 — […]
