PET’s been doing its CARE in action for the benefit of the Findhorn Ecovillage Community since 2009. On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the 5th anniversary of their adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – in the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our economies and societies – this 30-minute film tells […]
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September – activities
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 […]
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 …” […]
Food for (climate) thought
As lockdown is being loosened and we refill the social and economic vacuum, here’s some food for thought on going back to our (new?) normal routines and choices. There is plenty of evidence that climate change is already affecting our food system. Imports of avocados, coffee and courgettes have already been squeezed, and UK farming […]
Crisis & social change
I read an interesting article today on the subject of 危机 or Wéijī, which we Westerners like to translate as “crisis” and “opportunity.” In his conclusion Govert van Ginkel confronts us with some pretty fundamental questions — not about the ‘how’ of the current crisis but — about our willingness to invest the extra quality-time […]
Medicine in kind
PET is about protection AND improvement — environmentally, socially and re. well-being. The last two are being put to a heavy test in these days, interestingly to the advantage of the first… We’re all responding quite positively: the air’s full of official, sensible Do’s & Don’ts; organisations (including us) are doing their bit putting together […]
