A Vision for the MAC in Five Years
If we can get the MAC running as a temporary community centre, these things have a habit of sticking around. I think this building will end up being permanent.
If we can get the MAC running as a temporary community centre, these things have a habit of sticking around. I think this building will end up being permanent.
Twice a day, every day, eating with the same people — it's a very central bond.
The organisers had taken a major leap of faith in leaving much of the programme unplanned and pregnant with possibility. How could an event seeking to develop a New Story be otherwise? What emerged was deep, powerful and chaotic.
I eat in the CC (Community Centre) at every opportunity, and have been doing so without change since I first arrived here ten years ago.
My memoir recounts a lifetime's journey exploring alternatives: kibbutz, hippie communes, academic education and research. eco-architecture, communal living and so on.
The book is an insider’s perspective and is both a ‘love letter’ and a critique.
Editor's note: This article by Graham Meltzer and Monica Betancourt was published previously on the WWOOF UK website. *** Graham writes ... Christopher (Soillse’s head gardener) and myself (WWOOFer coordinator), picked up Monica (our first
I first arrived in Findhorn in 2005 for the GEN+10 conference. I was on a ‘grand tour’ of intentional communities, seeking one to join. After the conference I stayed on for Experience Week, during which,
Click to view e-book I came for an ecovillage conference and stayed on for Experience Week at the end of a reconnaissance trip to four communities in the US, Germany and Portugal. I
Reducing our ecological footprint … and our costs In its first year the Findhorn Foundation’s efficient new biomass boiler saved £15,000 in fuel costs and reduced our carbon emissions by about 80 tonnes. Installed towards