I can't recommend the Sunday Sounds album launch highly enough. It takes place this Sunday July 23rd @ the DA Gallery, 43 Kensington High Street, London W8 5ED The London Premiere of Michael Franti's film, I Know I'm Not Alone, will be shown from 6pm and music will start around 8pm. Earlier in the afternoon, at 1pm 4pm, I'll be hosting a meeting about the Commons Creation Collective in the park across the road. After visiting Yelnow Farm to check out the potential for holding a Building Man … [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...]
Spitalfields Green Fair – 16th July
uniteddiversity ran our book stall at this fair last year. It was as a lovely day, but suprisingly little people and virtually no sales. Hopefully more people will show up this year...A date for your diaries - the Spitalfields Green Fair is happening on Sunday the 16th of July from 12 noon - 6 p.m. at Allen Gardens (off Brick Lane) & Spitalfields City Farm - Weaver Street E2 in the Spitalfields Green quarter.Admission is Free!Featuring: music and dancing from around the world, acoustic yurt … [Read more...]
Peace Not War Album Launch – Thursday 6 July @ Cargo – In memory of the victims of the London Bombings
The Peace Not War Creative Collective are proud to present the launch of their new mixtape on Thursday 6 July in memory of all those victims of the London Bombings on the 7 July 2005. The CD will be launched at a unique event at Shoreditch's premier venue, Cargo on Thursday 6 July 2006. All the money raised from the CD will go towards victims of the bombings and those that have suffered since. Joining the Collective on the night to mark their respect are the true lyricists of peace: Roots … [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...]
The Merton Rule
uniteddiversity built and manages https://themertonrule.org The 'Merton Rule' is the groundbreaking planning policy, pioneered by the London Borough of Merton, which requires the use of renewable energy onsite to reduce annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the built environment. Hundreds of local authorities look set to follow Merton's lead, which will impact all new major development projects throughout the UK. … [Read more...]
Composting Toilet Project
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Legal Structures for Community Land groups
I was recently lucky enough to find myself being cc'd in a fascinating and informative discussion about legal structures for Community Land groups... Sharon Pollitt from Land Roots wrote: Please find attached a legal status questionaire, sound really boring and your probebly gonna consider deleting it, but it could be of great general interest to groups who are considering co-ownership of land it certainly is for land roots. www.landroots.co.uk We would really appreciate your assistance in … [Read more...]