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...]
David Korten – The Great Turning
Last night, when I should've been asleep, I watched these video clips and was left totally inspired. :) I strongly encourage you to watch them too. Its great stuff! You should also buy the book: [amtap book:isbn=1887208070] UPDATE: The book in bullet points from David Korten's new site: "The Great Turning provides a powerful framework for understanding our time within a deep historical context and for defining the collective choice we must now make as a species. These are the key … [Read more...]
Commons Creation meeting
The first Commons Creation meeting took place on Sunday 21st January: So far I've got some great groups signed up to the collective: Peace Not War: https://peace.fm The Synergy Project: https://thesynergyproject.org OneTaste: https://onetaste.co.uk Movimientos: https://www.movimientos.org.uk/ (site down!) they bring together all the Latin America solidarity groups and do regular monthly events with film and music. This is just the beginning, but together these groups already regularly … [Read more...]
Good Films
I just made the following comment in City Hippy's article about good films: I think The Take and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised are the best and most important films I've seen in a while. Both HIGHLY recommended. I also saw We... Unauthorised Arundhati Roy Documentary a few days ago. Great stuff. I thought I could've been done a lot better, but The End of Suburbia should defo be on this list too, as one of the main movies so far to focus on Peak Oil. The film I can't wait for is … [Read more...]
Recipe for a New World Order?
Whilst up in Bedford visiting the farm, I discussed plans for my book with Shane. He thought that Recipes for a New World Order would be a good title; we could reclaim the phrase New World Order (like how I tried to claim Bush's so-called Global Democratic Revolution). I chatted to Saul Albert about it, but he didn't like it, saying that he wouldn't even pick up a book with such a title. Maybe I should just write a load of stuff and self-publish it under a load of different titles to reach … [Read more...]
Indymedia Film Festival 7th – 15th July
Via Indymedia London Not been invited to the G8 this year? Never mind, indymedia's hosting an eight day film festival in London venues with no obligation to buy a gallon of Coke or a bucket of popcorn. Please note the revised listing that now substitutes Sat 8'th for previous Thurs 6th. g8filmfest2 Each day follows a theme ranging from debt to climate change to terrorism, kicking off on Friday 7th - the first anniversary of the London bombings - special screening with "The Power of … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
Treacle on relationships, and why Internet news is better. "Wool sweaters are so warm and comfortable, but itchy. Relationships are wool sweaters. That or hair shirts, I haven't decided." "Newspapers are dull, lifeless things that always seem to leave my fingers ink stained and my face smudged. I think I prefer the internet; it's a much cleaner news source." … [Read more...]
Sonia’s media empire
In her effort to try out all the best blogging tools (and steadily grow her presence in the blogosphere) Sonia has recently added a Pickled Politics journal, creatively called Sonia's Diary, a livejournal blog called The Desert and The Sea, and a new WordPress.com book/encyclopaedia-focussed blog, called desert and sea. All this blogging and linking to herself is helping Sonia to increase her technorati rankings, and she's doing pretty well at around 40,000th 30,000th top blog. In fact, if you … [Read more...]
Tools for Change
uniteddiversity started giving out Tools for Change cd-rom's at our "Sessions of Spontaneity" events back in 2001. The latest version was produced as part of our project to help launch The Open Co-op. Look out for a new version coming out later this summer, Tools for Change 2. … [Read more...]
new economics foundation cd-rom
uniteddiversity produced a cd-rom for nef (new economics foundation) to take to the 2002 Earth Summit in Johannessburg. … [Read more...]