These are my links for October 29th to November 3rd: Royal Bank of Scotland embraces open source - ZDNet.co.uk - The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed that it is working on a large content management system based on the open source application server Zope. At the end of last year, the bank sent an email to a number of Zope mailing lists, stating that it was looking for a developer to join the CMS development team in its Corporate Markets division, which provides financial services to large … [Read more...]
More money books
A while back I posted Money Books, a collection of my favourite books all about money. Now, with the global economy struggling on all sides with economic collapse, climate change and peak oil very much beginning to kick in, I thought I share a few more good reads on the subject. Hopefully lots and lots of people will read these books and we can finally move away from Money as Debt madness towards a saner banking system. : [amtap book:isbn=0816649634] "A firsthand view of local currencies … [Read more...]
Damaging property to prevent climate change is legal
A while ago a couple of peace activists who broke into a military airfield to damage B52 bombers argued they were preventing a greater crime and won their case (see www.b52two.org on web archive for the story). At the time I wondered "what if you used a similar defense for an action to prevent climate change"? Well, that has now happened and the jury is out, damaging property to prevent climate change is legal: Kingsnorth trial: Coal protesters cleared of criminal damage to chimney The trial … [Read more...]
Links for August 26th to August 27th
These are my links for August 26th to August 27th: Landlords welcome 'positive squatting' | Society | The Guardian - Positive occupation. Squatters often evoke a negative image, but more and more empty properties are being taken over and brought back into use for the community - and some landlords are welcoming them. Diane Taylor reports desk space - Rent your own desk space in a cool, bright top floor re–furbished leather factory in zone 1. The open plan space occupies the entire top floor … [Read more...]
Links for June 16th to June 17th
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...]