The Findhorn community, an intentional community in the north of Scotland, came to deep adaptation a little later than Auroville. Daniel Rodary, who is part of the Auroville deep adaptation group, gave a Findhorn member, Michael Shaw, a copy of the Jem Bendell paper, Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy, in July. The paper had a profound impact, particularly around “inevitable near term social collapse”. It was realised that something about deep adaptation needed initiating in Findhorn.
Forty copies of the article were distributed to the key players in their community, followed by an invitation for a meeting. Given the likely scenario of collapse and the need to prepare for this, the attendees were asked, ‘What do we want to keep, to let go of, and restore and reintroduce in Findhorn?’
What also helped focus minds was the realisation that the far north of Scotland, where Findhorn is located, is both cooler and less populated than the rest of the U.K., and therefor...
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