Jonathan Dawson
Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability educator based at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. He is seeking to weave some of the wisdom accrued in 20 years of working in Africa into more sustainable and joyful ways of living here in Europe. Jonathan is also a gardener and a story-teller and is President of the Global Ecovillage Network.
Articles by Jonathan Dawson
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Lifestyle
Glamourising the nettle
- 08 September 2008
- 5 comments
Dissatisfaction with indigenous foodtuffs is a growing problem for those among us who believe that it is important to increase our local food security
Lifestyle
Life in the goldfish bowl
- 20 August 2008
- 1 comment
For good or bad, television cameras have become an unavoidable part of life in the ecovillage
Society
Great time to be in Scotland
- 31 July 2008
- 1 comment
Jonathan Dawson talks about the Climate Challenge Fund and the gust of political fresh air sweeping across Scotland
Society
New Age old people's home
- 27 June 2008
- 6 comments
As in society as a whole, the wealth of the boomer generation is provoking a crisis of access for youth. How do ecovillages ensure they don't just host an older population?
Global Issues
Fire in its belly
- 06 June 2008
The models and solutions on offer at Findhorn are not off-the-peg selections aimed at bored shoppers in the sustainability saloon
Lifestyle
Green heart of Hawick
- 22 May 2008
- 3 comments
Jonathan Dawson makes a trip to an environmental fair in Hawick and explains a recent paradigm shift in the role of the ecovillage in contemporary society
Life & Society
Yes……..and
- 12 May 2008
- 3 comments
How people come and go at Findhorn but how often they leave a positive legacy behind them...
Life & Society
Talking to the descendants
- 14 April 2008
Our second report from the Positive Energy conference at Findhorn
Ideas
The Transition Town concept
- 17 March 2008
- 4 comments
Jonathan Dawson suggests that ecovillages are moving toward encouraging Transition Towns, which allow sustainability to be incorporated into mainstream society.
