Jonathan Dawson

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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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

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

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

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?

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

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

Yes……..and

  • 12 May 2008
  • 3 comments

How people come and go at Findhorn but how often they leave a positive legacy behind them...

Strange times

  • 25 April 2008
  • 1 comment

Talking to the descendants

  • 14 April 2008

Our second report from the Positive Energy conference at Findhorn

The Transition Town concept

  • 17 March 2008
  • 5 comments

Jonathan Dawson suggests that ecovillages are moving toward encouraging Transition Towns, which allow sustainability to be incorporated into mainstream society.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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