Keeping up with the Joneses
When looking at any way forward, I have two choices: "More of the Same" — movement not progress restructuring, investment in HRactivities, focus on more productivity and less costs, or "Guts & Will & Faith" in the collective ability to transcend the mundane by harmonising the demands of common sense
“Hey! Tell Me Before You Tear Down My House!”
“What are you doing?!?” he asked in his soft Scottish accent. “I have an apartment full of angry nature spirits carrying suitcases saying they are leaving your community. They say that you have broken your promises of cooperation.” Source: Lorian Association
Spotting the sweet spots
transpose this subject matter onto finding the perfect PETproject. We gotta find the sweet spot. More on this subject to follow...
GHGs and present CO2 emitters
Check out this World Resources Institute blog with a fascinating interactive view on the major causes of global greenhouse emissions. It is well worth taking some time to study and review it; [vertical-spacer] and some interesting up2date comparable national GHGemitter statistics and data here from the World Bank about aviation Transport.
small IS beautiful
for comparison's sake- think about it Check out the following: Watershed House Joshua Tree House Wood Cabin on Flathead Lake, Polson, Montana Alpine Hut, Stara Fuzini, Slovenia Ijburg House, Amsterdam, NL Design Matters too!
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We work really hard to walk our talk
Sustainable leadership: the three types of resilience you need | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
Resilience is the capacity for adapting to – and surviving – radically changing circumstances. This includes anything from climate change and economic collapse to the threat of international terrorism and pandemic disease. To meet these challenges sustainably, leaders must cultivate three types of resilience. Personal, group and global resilience. Personal
Spirit at work
Paper for the Living Spirit Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, July 22-24 2002 by Robin Alfred, with Robin Shohet of the Findhorn Consultancy Service Developing Practical Spirituality in the Workplace It seems that all the overripe hierarchies of the world, from corporations to nation states, are in trouble and are
Donate your Skills & Time
In addition to financial management, a healthy NGO has [...] governance and leadership, clear strategic direction, high quality programme management with involvement of beneficiaries, effective human resources management, shared values and a conducive organisational culture.mango.org.ukconducive - adjective - making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible.oxford.dictionaries.comA January 2017 Development Report
Fund the change you want to see
Donating funds to PET is a tangible way to contribute to concrete and dynamic initiatives making positive change happen TODAY in the Park Ecovillage, Findhorn— apart from volunteering with us... Your donation (i) supports our beneficiaries (all participants in Findhorn Community activities) and (ii) spreads the positive news that IT'S
be a stubborn optimist: Christiana Figueres
Figueres is a prominent leader with remarkable experience of bringing together a global agreement from 195 countries. Reflecting on leadership, Figueres believes that, in the same way that we have more distributed knowledge (through digitalization) and are increasingly seeing more distributed energy, so too shall we move towards a world with more
Invitation to interact
Here it is! And pretty exciting it feels too ~ for an ex-non-blogger as of today! As with the intention behind energy generating plants, so with lining up pieces of PET's specific little puzzle. The purpose is to generate practical insights about and/or answers to the problems challenges we are actively
