Samaritan
12th--14th February is Chinese New Year and Losar, so there's a second pportunity to make some important resolutions for the next 365days! If I may suggest a topic: "Kindness is 'social nearness-ing.' If medicine is the front line protecting our bodies, kindness is the front protecting our hearts and our
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
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
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
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
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
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
Simpl-e the best
[ /ˈsɪmpli/] I trust you had a happy Autumn Solstice. As the light hours shorten, there's an opportunity for more introspection... Continuing on from the previous blog's theme, I received a comment about how difficult it is to practise the consequences of humans being more than just their bodies and/or
Knowing our limits
In 2022AD there are so many important survival issues requiring active & individual efforts to resolve them[mfn]PETs current operational areas: To encourage social development and environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing in the whole Findhorn Ecovillage Community. See https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/home-portfolio/about/[/mfn] that it can be quite daunting -- if not downright paralysing!
CCC on Facebook
Hello there wonderful supporters of community wellbeing at the Findhorn Ecovillage Community. The CCC is on Facebook! Here's the URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/579850887019766 It's a practical medium, so check it out&join: you can then hear about the help community members require via our Coordinator. click the image for specific ccc-donation goals
Perma-food-culture
"Classical" businesses are starting to talk more about the opportunity profit in "culture" over that of "cost accounting". 2blogs ago we looked at the idea of "true cost" calculation.[mfn]https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/2022/08/nuts-and-fruitcakes/[/mfn] Even the Park Ecovillage at Findhorn is studying the possibilities of larger scale food&energy production, in line with their enlightened "0carbon30"
