This is one of the best documentaries about Community Supported Agriculture, Community Land Trusts and Community Currencies. COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy, is a new 37 minute film that tells the story of a series of revolutionary innovations by the community of Great Barrington, MA to address, at the local level, some of the economic challenges of our nation’s current hard times. In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – … [Read more...]
Springhill Cohousing
Last Saturday Gloria and I joined members of the North London Sustainable Housing Partnership to visit the lovely Springhill Cohousing community in Stroud. The video above is a quick tour of the site (unfortunately my battery ran out before I got to show you around inside the common house, and I hadn't put the camera in high resolution mode). Below are the photos I took during our tour, where together with lots of outdoor picture you can take a sneak peak inside some of the houses (some of which … [Read more...]
The Take: Occupy. Resist. Produce.
As I've said before, The Take is one of the best films I've seen. We're screening it at 7.30pm on Saturday December 15th @ Sessions of Spontaneity Watch the trailer now: And watch the whole thing! (NOTE: although much if not most of the film above is in English there are no subtitles on the spanish bits) … [Read more...]
Housing Co-ops
Just sent this out to a couple of lists... People keep asking me about Housing Co-ops :) Here are a few good links: Finding Housing Co-ops in London https://www.cch.coop/coopinfo/london.html https://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/iane/coops/coopsdirlondon.html How to set up a Housing Co-op: Step by Step (pdf file) https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/documents/how2housingco-opstepbystep.pdf Sanford Housing Co-op (where I live) https://www.sanford.coop/ Sanford is a great option for single people at … [Read more...]