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
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 &
Care (a little more)
Following on from the previous post: in his “Instructions to the Cooks”[mfn]I like this teaching's analogies because in my apprentice days in the Foundation, after being a gardner, I became a cook...[/mfn] Dogen, the Japanese founder of the Soto Zen school, wrote that someone working to benefit others should maintain
Just do it, RIGHT?!
We've been talking about the New Normal since the first statistical decreases in this pandemic's infections/hospitalisations/deaths. "Enough talking," say I. Surely for Findhorn Ecovillagers and their supporters the "New Normal" can't really be called cutting edge any more... Heck, if you're having difficulty doing the New Normal[mfn] I'm thinking of
More than a consumer
Not long ago I read two intriguing quotes: one by Anon., “We are in an irreversible, unstoppable de-carbonisation movement. ... It is the only path to economic growth and stability;" the other by USSenator BF Wade from 1885, "Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company!" Are Economics -- economic
Walk2COP26
Not a new police TVseries, but a serious physical challenge. For both our planet and these guys: 6 walkers are going to make the 500 mile journey from London to Glasgow, on foot, in the run-up to COP26 in November. This group is going to be raising awareness of local
Feeling potential
Charles Eisenstein's essay, The Coronation, published March 2020, has been mentioned in blogs here before.[mfn]https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/search/Coronation/[/mfn] 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
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
Meat on the bone
While volunteering with PET last week, I was struck by a point made in the NFD Energy Master Plan 2021 about bringing PETs carbon offset projects closer to home -- Scotland. According to the report this would make offsetting far more meaningful to hundreds of Park Ecovillage, Findhorn(FEC) residents who
Innovation@Findhorn
The NFD, trading arm of the Findhorn Foundation which is one of the key stakeholders in the Findhorn Ecovillage Community, has been exploring innovative models and technical strategies to ensure sustainability advocacy and leadership for the Findhorn Ecovillage in relation to energy. This is very important for PETs carbon strategy
Heavenly politics
Where was your first glimpse of Heaven? In your mind, of course! Were there other people there? Most probably there were. The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn(FEC), as one of many "cities of light," was conceived as a place where Heaven would come to Earth -- another garden of Eden materialised on our
