Living Lightly

To keep making inspiring independent films and videos, we need the participation of engaged viewers — people who want to see more documentaries like Be the Change.
We are aiming to raise an additional $40,000 by March 31, 2010, to fund production of our next major film, Powerful: Energy for Everyone.
The Living Lightly Project is a [...]

Erraid is a tiny island, off the island of Mull, off the island of Great Britain! We left Findhorn on Saturday at 6am, taking the weekly bus that goes to Erraid, via two ferries and some spectacular (though, as I am now acutely aware, unnatural, deforested) countryside.
The roads got narrower and twistier the closer we [...]

Week 4 was the final week of Ecovillage Training, and what a week. It began on Sunday with a sweat lodge, which was an amazing experience from start to finish. We started with making prayer bundles, collecting firewood (and planting trees to replace them), continued with taking stones to the fire, drumming, singing, sweating, and [...]

Radio listeners in the Ottawa area may have caught some of my recent Eco Voyager and Living Lightly radio spots on the local CHUM radio stations. One of them goes like this:
“Many of us have an old bicycle that is, umm… under-used. And a little bit rusty. Here’s a suggestion, several local groups fix up [...]

Three weeks gone already! This week’s theme has been “Earth Care” and consisted of two sections; the first, a good look at sustainable building, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and the like – culminating with the group building a cob (which is basically moist earth and straw mixed together) cooking stove. The afternoon ended with torrential [...]

Our second week of EVT has also been incredibly intense, with the feeling that the week has lasted a month yet passed in a heartbeat. It was filled with laughter, passion, awe, and experience.
The theme of this week has been “Fair Share” and so we have focussed on alternative currencies, community projects, community supported [...]

In our activities, we always light a candle for the focus, but we also always blow out the candle together.  We stand in a our big circle and blow but we are too far away to extinguish it.  We have to squeeze together, huff and puff, laugh and bend into the middle supported by the [...]

The first week of our course is focused on the concept of People Care.  A successful community has to have “glue” to keep the people together.  At Findhorn, this glue is a diversity of spiritual practice which is held together in joy and playfulness.  This week has been an incredibly intense experience, with group discovery buy [...]

The MEET YOUR GREENS! blog by Kara Stonehouse and David Evans will be bursting onto the scene on February 14th, hosted by the Living Lightly Project.
We invite you to join us, in digital form, on an adventure to meet people around the world who are living it up, lightly. So, while you are scarfing down [...]

The Lost Generation? Here is a brilliant little piece of video editing. So simple and elegant. Enjoy!