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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Sex and the ecovillage

  • 15 October 2007
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Jonathan Dawson continues to reveal what it's like to live in an ecovillage discussing the thorny issue of communal sex and other issues...

A life devoted to children

  • 05 October 2007
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Jonathan Dawson reports on the Russian eco-village who have made it their mission to look after orphaned children

Shut up about the deckchairs!

  • 28 September 2007
  • 5 comments

In his latest entry, Jonathan Dawson stresses on the need for a collective 'peak moment'

Getting creative at the wind park

  • 07 September 2007
  • 4 comments

My observation as an educator is that we generally need to engage physically and through ritual to facilitate this kind of deep transformative learning

Sprats and mackerels

  • 30 August 2007
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Are poverty alleviation and human rights work worth the carbon cost?

Saying goodbye to an old friend

  • 20 August 2007
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Jonathan Dawson marks the sudden passing of Findhorn resident Andrew Murray

In pursuit of the aesthetic orgasm

  • 13 August 2007
  • 5 comments

Jonathan Dawson on the art centre that is a stunning monument to the power of vision and persistence

Positive energy

  • 02 August 2007
  • 12 comments

The terrifying prospect of a post-oil future: no more ready meals, traffic jams or lonely nights in front of television.

We Refuse to be Enemies

  • 18 July 2007

How 100 people are making the world a better place

Family reunion

  • 05 July 2007

A community that has succeeded in redefining wealth in terms much broader than money income alone

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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Should we build new nuclear power plants?

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