Pursuit of happiness

245 years ago, in order to get 13 different groups[mfn]founded for a diverse range of reasons, from the pursuit of fortunes to the desire to create havens from persecution and model societies, and had differing systems of governance,[/mfn] to form a more perfect union -- just, tranquil&safe, prosperous, and free

February 5th, 2023|Categories: community, how to, strategy, values, video|

Food dis$e¢ted

According to Plato, "the root and stem of all evil is ignorance." So here's some info about where our food money goes to: "farm2fork" in reverse.[mfn]How can I act sustainably if my body-mind isn't thinking&self-caring sustainably too: What You Believe Is WYSIWYG...[/mfn] From the below report's foreword: "... Our work

January 15th, 2023|Categories: carbon strategy, education, food, strategy, values|

0carbon30

[ycd_countdown id=16765] It seems that more&more (mostly non-governmental) entities are becoming serious about using the above as their GhG-emission reference point. Happy New Year! Currently, the Earth is already about 1.1°C warmer than it was in the late 1800s, and emissions continue to rise. To keep global warming to no

January 5th, 2023|Categories: carbon strategy, community, enterprise, global warming, how to, strategy|

Open to the edge

A topical Advent theme and community development imperative, was covered by David Spangler in his November 2022 blog. He writes, "What is sad and dangerous about this time is that, seeing that what we have isn’t working, there is a reaction to replace it not with something new but with

December 15th, 2022|Categories: community, education, how to, strategy, values|

Xmas wishes

SEASON’S GREETINGS FROM PET In the spirit of the season we want to thank all of you for your ongoing support for our work here. That includes: Building and superintending our 18 affordable housing units in East, West and, most recently,’Woodside’ in North Whins. Manifesting the funds required for a

December 15th, 2022|Categories: community, official communications, strategy, thanks|

Beauty and the beast

On the pandemic and post-Cop27 subject of putting the case for positive behavioural change, here's a short article about a vital component of the fourth step to changing things (change step#1 see a problem #2 decide to resolve it #3 look for possible solutions #4 choose the most effective one).

Crisis? Whither the crisis?

Who can seriously say "Crisis? What crisis?" anymore? However you and I do have the choice of how we react to this state of affairs: re. community care, energy, transportation, GhGs, agriculture&food, &c.. Here's someone else's point of view about where2go from here. [vertical-spacer] (I just love their emag

November 15th, 2022|Categories: carbon strategy, community, enterprise, food, global warming, strategy, values|

CaringC in action

Wonder what the CCC does in practice? One of its aims is to create a Caring Community Culture to develop and support social capacities (e.g. behaviour, awareness, convention) and infrastructures (e.g. networking, communication, ‘joined-up’ policies) One way of developing social capacities in the Park Ecovillage, Findhorn is by the interactive real-time

November 5th, 2022|Categories: caring community, community, donations, invites, strategy, values, volunteer|

Fossil2new Fuel

How're things moving with you? Still constrained by the yoke of FF (fossil fuel) dependency? Sure you are; we all are somewhere along our life's value-chain. So, how to change this -- to become a more sustainable energy user? A pragmatic, real-change-method? Offsetting perhaps? And/Or you could consider https://www.follow-this.org/... If

October 25th, 2022|Categories: carbon strategy, enterprise, global warming, strategy, values, video|

Weather Report 2022

The latest "United in Science" report provides an overview of the most recent science related to climate change, impacts and responses from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partner organizations. At a time when urgent action to address climate change is needed, the report provides unified scientific information to inform

October 5th, 2022|Categories: carbon strategy, community, education, global warming, links, strategy|
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