These are my links for June 16th to June 17th: Peak oil primer and links - A good round up page on Peak Oil with a quality selection of links Coed Hills Rural Arts Space - The whole site is run on alternative energy, from high-tech wind turbines and biomass underfloor heaters, to solar showers made out of scrap radiators. With its permaculture gardens, the place is an inspiration for the budding and more experienced eco-con Future Scenarios - The simultaneous onset of climate change and the … [Read more...]
Convergence 13: Transition Strategies
This looks set to be an amazing event... Cultivate Update cultivate your self | community | world Friday 22nd Feb 2008 Convergence 13: Transition Strategies Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco-Villages 3rd to the 7th of April 2008 | Festival Pass: €120 until March 10th (€150 thereafter) Bookings 01 674 5773 or Online Attention climate activists, community workers, environmentalists, academics, change agents and cultural creatives, if you are at the leading edge of … [Read more...]
Cheat Neutral
I've written before about the carbon offsetting con and in my update I mentioned the wonderful Cheat Neutral site. Now I figured I should embed their splendid video here too for your delight and enjoyment: Their about page is also great, and so I reproduce that here too... About Cheatneutral Cheatneutral is about offsetting infidelity. We're the only people doing it, and Cheatneutral is a joke. Carbon offsetting is about paying for the right to carry on emitting carbon.The … [Read more...]
Links for January 31st
These are my links for January 31st: The Crackberry Times - Lifestyle suggestions for bright young things So, here's the deal: each week we send you a free email giving you recommendations to get the most out of London. Aimed at young professionals like ourselves each week we suggest a cool bar, a good restaurant Python Programming Language - Pollenation's employees have been using Python for almost ten years. As a company, we decided to focus primarily on Python development in 2002 after … [Read more...]
Links for January 17th to January 21st
These are my links for January 17th to January 21st: Business - Britain's Brown wants UN, World Bank, IMF reform - INQUIRER.net - The World Bank should become a "bank for the environment" with a greater focus on supporting environmental projects, particularly those aimed at tackling climate change, he was to say. BBC NEWS | Business | Global shares tumble on US fears - Global stock markets have tumbled amid growing fears of a recession in the US, and despite recovering slightly in the … [Read more...]
United Diversity Update
Hello everyone, Only one month to go until our Sessions of Spontaneity event! Saturday Dec 15th @ Passing Clouds, Richmond Road, London E8 4AA We've got an amazing line-up with a bicycle powered sound system, inspiring films and 2 floors of brilliant live music including The Impossible, International Love Collective, Bad Science and the Sunday Sounds crew. See https://uniteddiversity.com/sessions-of-spontaneity for more details and to book tickets now! For loads more great events check out … [Read more...]
It’s the End of the World as We know it and I feel FINE #23
Via Submedia I love this series and this is one of the best episodes yet! :) This Week 1. Trillionaire Debt 2. Almost $100 3. PetroChina 4. Food Riots 5. Buy Nothing Day 6. No Borders Camp 7. R.A.T.M. 8. Ron Paul, who cares 9. Ward Churchill … [Read more...]
My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 12th through November 13th
These are my links for November 12th through November 13th: Dealmaker Records - A great bunch of musos up in Nottingham. Nice links section too. PVC: The Poison Plastic - Another fantastic edutainment animation from Free Range graphics. This time about PVC: The Poison Plastic. Garbage Warrior- The Movie - A film about the creator of Earth Ships battle to get eco housing built. Pinakarri Community - Pinakarri is an Aboriginal (Nyangamarta) word meaning "deep listening". The Nyangurmart … [Read more...]
Runaway Climate Change
The International Panel on Climate Change forthcoming report, Climate Change 2007, confirms what we already knew: that human activity has caused, and is causing, the climate to change. But as this video from the Apollo Gaia Project outlines, what gets left in IPCC reports is not the whole story. Positive feedback (such as dark pools of water in melting ice speeding up the melting) mechanisms are often down-played. … [Read more...]
The Switch Has Been Flipped: It’s Too Late For Solutions By Carolyn Baker
Via Dandelion Salad By Carolyn Baker Speaking Truth to Power Sunday, 04 November 2007 This past week I attended another screening of “What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire“[1]. My intention was not to see the documentary yet again-perhaps for the fifteenth time, but to support the film makers, my friends Sally Erickson and Tim Bennett, who were completing the last leg of their West Coast screening tour in my state. However, I did watch most of the film again, and this time, my experience … [Read more...]