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...]
Transition Tufnell Park
Transition Tufnell Park (TTP) do the Big Dig Up! TPP, part of the wider Transition Network, are one of the latest Transition initiatives in London. Read more of our posts about Transition for more info and be sure to check out the Transition, Relocalisation and Resilience folder in our Tools for Change library (also relevant are the Food, Energy, Peak Oil, Climate Change and Permaculture folders). You may also be interested in our Transition Sessions project … [Read more...]
Community Algae Lab
Algae! A truly green crop for a sustainable future. Scenedesmus algae bottles We are the Shipyard algae lab community. We have created the world’s first community algae lab for the development of open-source, DIY-oriented algae technology, to facilitate the co-operative pursuit of this new form of agriculture — and we invite you to come learn how to raise algae and transform them into exciting products! … [Read more...]
Secret Seed Society
Bringing to life Chrissie Cress! Secret Seed Society team at play - Stop Motion done in a day. Cast: Rosa van Wyk View original post … [Read more...]
Transition Handbook Now Open Source!
I've been meaning to contribute for ages, but here is my first post on the P2P Foundation blog, about my role in helping to open source the wonderful Transition Handbook … [Read more...]
Save The Spike Surplus Scheme
The Spike in Peckham is under threat. With free permaculture courses, a community garden, recording studio, rehearsal space and much more, Spike is an exemplay example of volunteer community based regeneration. It is an important local resource. If you haven't already done so, please sign the petition to help Save The Spike! If you have already signed the petition, please forward it on to your (e.g. myface) friends and networks. For an idea of how great this space is check out the pictures … [Read more...]
P2P Foundation Ning
UPDATE: Save the P2P Foundation Ning! A week or so ago I created the P2P Foundation Ning Here is Michel's post about it, and this is how it happened... As I browsed the archives of the Strategic P2P list I came across this old thread (from mid-Dec 07) where Michel asked "would it make sense to have a ning-based p2p network"? As I explain at the end of that thread, I thought Why Not? Hi Michel, I think we chose ning because it is simple, free and featureful and therefore we've got … [Read more...]
Peer Trust Network, OSE and More!
I sent this out on The Open Co-op mailing list (amongst others) but should've posted it up here too... This chap Stan Rhodes has a vision that is very familiar to me...https://www.p2pfoundation.net/Narrative_on_Discovering_the_Peer_Trust_Network_System https://www.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Trust_Network_ProjectAnd if you haven't caught up with Open Source Ecology lately, you've got to check this out: CEB (Compressed Earth Block) Phase 1 - Donehttps://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=91Open Engineering: … [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...]
Events, events, events
This weeks United Diversity guide has been delayed because I've been taking care of important tax and accounting stuff. Moreover, I've got fed up with manually creating the guide each week and so things are changing. To start with we've put up a nice google calendar that includes all our recommended events... https://uniteddiversity.com/events/ Enjoy! Josef. … [Read more...]
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