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...]
What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire
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...]
Amsterdam prepares for global warming…
Ceridwen on Amsterdam and global warming: …in the Jordaan, one of the favourite tourist spots of the city. This man’s arm was broken in a squat eviction that took place there yesterday. By the time these cops get their pension the Netherlands will probably not have much longer to exist as a country. It will be under water and millions of Dutch refugees will be pouring over the border into Germany saying sorry they kept asking for their bicycles back but could they please have a house, a job … [Read more...]