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Findhorn Foundation Love in Action Series: Restoring the Earth with Michael Shaw

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Former Findhorn Foundation Chair of Trustees and long-term community member and Fellow, Michael Shaw, shares his passion for sustainable technology innovations and the role water treatment and renewable energy technologies can play in restoring the earth for a sustainable future. A founding partner of Biomatrix Water, Michael is an ecological engineer and designer for sustainability who has helped pioneer the design and implementation of natural wastewater treatment systems, including the … Watch video

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means and how to respond

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"We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society." Read the … Continue reading

Desmond Tutu: Enabled by Technology, Young People are Righting our Wrongs

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"Sometimes, when we watch the evening news and consume our daily diet of stories of intense violence, extremist and anti-social behaviour, we question our abilities to stop our collective plummet into the abyss. It may be true that, on our own, we can make but a relatively modest difference, something to which we should all aspire daily. "But consider our power when we act together for common goals, when we view our diversity not as a threat but as the strength it is. The good news is that we … Continue reading

Robert Steele: ‘Open Source Everything’ for Revolutionary Change

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Ex-CIA spy, Robert Steele, presents his vision of a New Story which has 'Open Source Everything' as its basis. We need to create a world brain - a deliberative dialogue world brain - and become citizen intelligence 'Minutemen'. We are at the end of an era in which lies can be used to steal from the public and the Commons. We are at the beginning of an era in which truth in public service can restore us all to a state of grace. Robert was filmed at the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for … Watch video

Paul Allen: A New Story for Energy

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In his 7-minute talk, Findhorn Fellow, Paul Allen, speaks to a new story for energy using rapid decarbonisation strategies around institutional change for those campaigning for things to be different. Paul says we need to radically and differently imagine our energy story as we have not yet seen it. He emphasises that the technology exists today to get very close to zero carbon, so why aren't we using it? He encourages us to imagine what it would be like to live and love in a zero-carbon … Watch video

Nick Joyce: Inter-generational community and right use of technology

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New Story Summiteer, Nick Joyce, speaks about inter-generational community and the right use of technology to support the New Story. He is the founder of Drums For Development, creating a sense of global unity through drumming. Nick works with local sustainability leaders and creatives at InTerraTree in Togo, West Africa, to build a Living and Learning Centre for Sustainability and Creative Culture. Nick was filmed at the New Story Summit which took place at the Findhorn Foundation and … Watch video

Will.i.am: we are creating ‘poverty in the mind’ by Jo Confino | Guardian

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New Story Summiteer and Executive Editor of The Guardian, Jo Confino, brings us his latest article featuring musician and entrepreneur, Will.i.am, along with CEOs of Bank of America, Yahoo and Microsoft at Davos, on the last day of the World Economic Forum (WEF), discussing the need to create stillness in our lives as technological sophistication grows. Will.i.am fears AI learning is trumping group learning. ‘We are creating a whole new type of poverty, which is poverty in the mind,’ he says. … Continue reading

Field Notes from the Green Economy with Alisa Gravitz | Bioneers

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Alisa Gravitz speaks at the 2014 Bioneers National Conference demonstrating that large system change is possible and is happening before our eyes. Industry will dominate society’s values for a socially and environmentally regenerative world. Gravitz, President and CEO of Green America, affirms that companies do listen to customer concerns, and energy and water conservation is a matter of their survival. Thanks to battery storage technology, solar and wind are knocking dirty energy off the grid. … Watch video

The extraordinary story of human beings and energy

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Paul Allen, who will be participating in Findhorn's New Story Summit 27 September - 3 October 2014, shares his vision of a new story for humanity in this excerpt from a short talk he will be giving at the event. Paul is a member of the famous Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and is a leader in the ground-breaking Zero Carbon Britain research programme. Continue reading

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