Special events organised by our #TheHappyPig residents here in Co. #Galway, #Ireland over the coming months!!
The first #Ánradh weekend retreat of rest, inspiration and reflection on the lives we are choosing, 14-17th August 2025
(full info from Marie Thérèse at https://anradh.ie/ )
And #Talmhú's 'Rewild Your Palate' foraging adventure on Sunday 19th Oct, 10am-4:30pm
(contact Olwyn for more info — 087 904 7553 or [email protected])
I'm hoping to join both!! 😊
@b9AcE Their movie "Kneecap" is absolutely fantastic—- check it out!
All of us here at #TheHappyPig watched it a month or so back and adored it!
I love this reflective NBC piece about the wonderful climate scientist @ClimateHuman, and his search for sanity in a crazy world.
Which leads him to the #PossibilityAlliance, and a life much like ours at #TheHappyPig.
Like him, I find little so deeply nourishing as living days that make sense, even though they don't 'save the world':
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/scientist-reckons-climate-grief-rcna129981
@aptlyndecided Hey @rutger , yes, what you describe sounds very much like my life. I'm glad there's a wider subculture around it!
And agree with all else you both say. Really our project here at #TheHappyPig (https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/109410285273214948) is about bringing that forward (offering a place where people can be at zero financial cost).
And the wonderful Ecological Land Co-op movement that I used to chair likewise.
Seeding the future; preparing people for the sequels to our troubled civilisation ✊
Attached: 4 images For those interested to know more about life here at #TheHappyPig 🐷 , here's the 45 minute episode of #BenFogle's #Channel5 show #NewLivesInTheWild where he came to stay and hang out with #MarkBoyle: https://www.darkoptimism.org/NewLivesInTheWild.mp4 Or a 4 minute taste of the place by actress and model #LilyCole, in which I appear: https://www.nowness.com/series/retreats/retreats-marble-hill-lily-cole-mark-boyle-the-moneyless-man More info at: https://darkoptimism.org/projects#TheHappyPig #gifteconomy #Ireland
For those interested to know more about life here around our free inn #TheHappyPig 🐷 , here's the 45 minute episode of #BenFogle's #Channel5 show #NewLivesInTheWild where he came to stay and hang out with #MarkBoyle:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/NewLivesInTheWild.mp4
Or a 4 minute taste of the place by actress and model #LilyCole, in which I appear:
https://www.nowness.com/series/retreats/retreats-marble-hill-lily-cole-mark-boyle-the-moneyless-man
More info at:
https://darkoptimism.org/projects#TheHappyPig
@drifthood Yeah, I'm from England, live much of the time at #TheHappyPig in Ireland and partner with Sterling College in Vermont, USA on the online community we've built together.
And I quit flying 20 years ago, which doesn't make all this international collaboration any easier! 😂 I've actually never set foot in the US, and probably never will.
I'm an #author/activist who published 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy'.
Now holding online program '#SurvivingTheFuture: Conversations for Our Time', in partnership with #otherWise.
I live with #MarkBoyle at #TheHappyPig, our #gifteconomy (free!) bunkhouse.
And produced 2020 film 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?', inspired by my late mentor #DavidFleming, author of '#LeanLogic'.
Shaun Chamberlin