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
Let's work together
- 14 March 2007
Much of what eco-villages began doing decades ago is being adopted by the mainstream
Lifestyle
Acts of random beautification
- 08 March 2007
- 1 comment
How at Findhorn even inanimate objects are given names
Life & Society
Cashing in on cow shares!
- 01 March 2007
There are local alternatives to the excesses of global capitalism
Life & Society
In Pursuit of Gross National Happiness
- 23 February 2007
- 2 comments
Jonathan returns to Findhorn pondering how we can measure happiness
Life & Society
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
Society
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
Life & Society
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
Lifestyle
Wrestling with Climate Change
- 18 January 2007
- 1 comment
The community's unique approach to the threat of climate change
Life & Society
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
Life & Society
An appetite for flesh
- 04 January 2007
- 3 comments
A carnivorous Christmas has Findhorn's 'reformed vegetarians' salivating
