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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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Let's work together

  • 14 March 2007

Much of what eco-villages began doing decades ago is being adopted by the mainstream

Acts of random beautification

  • 08 March 2007
  • 1 comment

How at Findhorn even inanimate objects are given names

Cashing in on cow shares!

  • 01 March 2007

There are local alternatives to the excesses of global capitalism

In Pursuit of Gross National Happiness

  • 23 February 2007
  • 2 comments

Jonathan returns to Findhorn pondering how we can measure happiness

Inspiration from a new generation

  • 15 February 2007

Jonathan's second report from Thailand and the story of a young woman who devotes herself to that country's 'alternative' communities

Findhorn's global reach

  • 07 February 2007

Jonathan reports from Wongsanit ashram in Thailand where he is on behalf of the Global Ecovillage Network and reflects on the world-wide reach of the Findhorn way

In praise of wildness

  • 25 January 2007
  • 2 comments

Jonathan uses Findhorn's quiet time for reflection and tells us about a community resident who lives in a whisky barrel

Wrestling with Climate Change

  • 18 January 2007
  • 1 comment

The community's unique approach to the threat of climate change

Making Ends Meet

  • 11 January 2007

Balancing the needs for a business head alongside the ethics of the ecovillage movement hasn't always come easy

An appetite for flesh

  • 04 January 2007
  • 3 comments

A carnivorous Christmas has Findhorn's 'reformed vegetarians' salivating

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