September 2020 seems to be an active month for activities having to do with community development (social, environmental and wellbeing). Here are a few practical things to DO: Home Energy Savings yesterday’s blog linking to the Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales) website resource, with handy tips for producing less CO2 by consuming less energy… Communities […]
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Complex POPs
This is not a blog about male psychology… but something more simple: common sense. Musing on PET (and humanity)’s mission of encouraging social development, environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing, I am forced to admit that what often holds me back from doing the right stuff, is the knottiness of the issue at hand… I’ll […]
Community-self care
I came across two phrases while reading about the effects of the health crisis on the future of work: “… lightweight, personalised, distributed, and resilient…” [re. organisational attributes; also topical for individuals] “… building trust, valuing human skills, supporting mental and physical well-being, managing workloads, and having work spaces that encourage collaboration and creativity …” […]
To act or not to act
Playing my part to minimise the possible repercussions of easing lockdown, I’ve been looking further into the socio-economic choices we all have going forwards: business-as-usual or the ‘new normal’ or even something more extreme? I came across an essay by Charles Eisenstein called ‘Making the Universe Great Again.’ He writes about how and with what […]
Zero carbon – Britain
——There’s a discussion currently happening in the Findhorn Ecovillage Community about being Carbon Neutral by 2030. And then I read some days ago: “the April [2020] oil market crash will test the determination of majors like Shell and BP, which have recently announced goals to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, according to the International Energy […]
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 […]
Saying grace
One of PET’s directors sent me an email last month. To it was appended some fascinating information re. the food chain and its impact on Life on Earth. Resonating thoughts touched on the themes of ‘interrelatedness‘ and ‘fasting as a biological form of spiritual grace.’ I’d like to share two of these resources with you. […]
