• [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 more than 1.5°C – as […]

  • 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 title!) Enjoy. I invite you to […]

  • 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! We’ve only limited time, energy […]

  • Happy World Environment Day! Encouraging, developing, protecting and improving it — which PET officially does — encompasses (1) choosing to change the way our community does things (2) deciding the better way, and (3)planning when — in the main sooner rather than later! Of the above three action moments, the last two are easier to do than the initial acceptance […]

  • Asked around New Year to think about the following: “If an “Enlightened One” came back today s/he’d be surprised about what?”, I started a list and to date I’ve got the following: * how scared people are of ‘pain’ on all levels (and so trying to believe in the illusion of control – time) * […]

  • A movie[mfn]”RFK,” a 2002 tv bio-pic https://youtu.be/VbHemHty-ck[/mfn] about Robert F. Kennedy after his brother’s sad demise, brought home some of the myriad possible, valid concepts for achieving happiness. That universal — not just American — “Pursuit of Happiness” was also the (personal) goal of each of the Findhorn Founders, Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy […]

  • 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 still emit[mfn]3,858 tonnes of CO2e […]

  • The longest night of the year inspires, infuses and enthuses feeling-people to emphasise more LIGHT.  Winter solstice 2020 in the Northern Hemisphere will be at 14:30CET on Monday, 21 December. However, in these dark & VUCA[mfn]term first used in 1987, drawing on the leadership theories of Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus to describe or to […]