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What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire

November 7, 2007 by jdaviescoates 1 Comment

I just watched this. As it says at the beginning it is very dense, but overall I think it is really rather good. For more info about the movie visit the website Peak Moment 72: "What a Way to Go" - Meet the Filmmakers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: All stories, All stories, Documentary, Economics, Energy, Energy, Farming, Film, Food, Food, Global Warming, Great Turning, Oil, Peak Oil, Politics, Transition, Transition, Video, Video

Dialstation: Cheap International Calls from Your Mobile

October 30, 2007 by jdaviescoates 3 Comments

Ever wondered what the best way to make international calls from your mobile is? Well, the answer is Dialstation. There are lots of ways to an initiate a call (including a facebook app) but the one I've personally found most convenient is to simply text a contact from my address book to Dialstation. Say, for example, I want to call my Dad in Spain. Both he and I only have mobile phones and he has never even used a computer so voip is out of the question for now. Normally, (unless I buy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Activism, Activism, All stories, All stories, Co-operation, Co-ops, Economics, Inspiring Projects, Media, Media, Mobile, Money, Money, Open Source, Open Source, Projects, Sharing Economy

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

October 25, 2007 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

One of the first documentaries made by Big Noise Films and still one of the best. This follows the explosive events of Seattle in 1999. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Activism, Activism, All stories, All stories, Economics, Politics, Video, Video, War

We Have Land!

September 30, 2007 by jdaviescoates 15 Comments

Hello all, INTRO As some of you know already, I'm out in Spain acquiring land for the Commons! :) I came out here with 4 main tasks: to see and help my Dad to get my Dad's land transferred into my name so we can invest it in the Commons! to send out this long overdue Commons Creation update! and to come up with a clear strategy for United Diversity. Most of these overlap in some way. Since Commons Creation is a project co-ordinated by United Diversity I couldn't really do 3 without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Activism, Activism, All stories, All stories, Banking, Commons, Economics, Ecovillages, Ecovillages, Inspiring Projects, Land, Land, Money, Money, Projects, Tour, Update

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war

July 16, 2007 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

This is a great documentary about Venezuela. See also The Revolution Will Not Be Televised … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Activism, Activism, All stories, All stories, Co-ops, Documentary, Economics, Farming, Film, Land, Latin America, Media, Media, Oil, Venezuela, Video, Video, War

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

July 5, 2007 by jdaviescoates 6 Comments

This is one of the best videos about Peak Oil because rather than focussing on the potential doom and gloom, it shows how communities can work together to implement solutions :) Watch it now! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Agriculture, All stories, All stories, Cuba, Documentary, Economics, Energy, Energy, Farming, Film, Food, Food, Inspiring Projects, Land, Land, Latin America, Oil, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Permaculture, Politics, Video, Video

The End of Suburbia

July 3, 2007 by jdaviescoates 3 Comments

Another "must see" documentary for all you folks out there. We've screened this one too :) (PS - this is a 52 minute edit of the original 78 minute full length version available on DVD from https://www.endofsuburbia.com/ ) And here it is in not so good quality but with subtitles (looks like French or something) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Agriculture, All stories, All stories, Carbon, Economics, Energy, Energy, Farming, Food, Food, Money, Money, Oil, Peak Oil, Transition, Transition, Transition Towns, Video, Video

The Corporation

July 3, 2007 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

Another must see documentary that we've screened a couple of times. Watch it now! (and considering buying the book or original DVD, or just donating, at https://www.thecorporation.com/ ) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: All stories, All stories, Business, Corporations, Documentary, Economics, Film, Media, Media, Politics, Video, Video

Inspiring Land, Money and Media Projects

May 13, 2007 by jdaviescoates 1 Comment

In my last post about Transition Towns I mentioned that Gloria and I decided to try and write a post a day throughout May about inspiring people and projects. She's done a pretty good job so far, having covered Maya Angelou, Ruth Cox, Muhammad Yunus, Charles Drew, Jane Goodall, and Mark Johnson. I've not managed to keep the one post a day pace at all, so to make up for it I'm going to link to all my favourite land, money and media project on this page... (but its now gone 3am so I'm hitting … [Read more...]

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Transition Towns

May 2, 2007 by jdaviescoates 2 Comments

So, we're both a day late, but Gloria and I somehow decided that every day in May was going to be inspirational! Each day Gloria will a post about an inspirational person, and I'll highlight an inspirational project. Her first person is Maya Angelou, and my first project is... Transition Towns The Transition Towns project was initiated by permaculture teacher of 10 years, Rob Hopkins. Focussing on the central issues of peak oil and climate change, Transition Towns are "towns that are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Activism, Activism, Agriculture, All stories, All stories, Carbon, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change, Co-operation, Economics, Energy, Energy, Energy Descent, Farming, Food, Food, Housing, Inspiring Projects, Land, Land, Peak Oil, Permaculture, Permaculture, Projects, Systems Thinking, Transition Towns

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