On August 12th at 1pm, hundreds of New Zealanders paused for five minutes with woolly hats over their eyes. We then lifted our hats together, showing that we will not have the wool pulled over our eyes about the possibilities for real action on climate change. Scientists say that an atmospheric carbon dioxide of 350 parts per million is the safe upper limit for humanity. See the NZ 350 website. … [Read more...]
Carbon Offsets: A Dangerous Distraction
Friends of the Earth explain why offsetting is a dangerous distraction from the urgent business of decarbonizing the world’s economies. CDM and related offset plans can’t be reformed: they must be scrapped. The following is the Executive Summary of Friends of the Earth’s new report, A Dangerous Distraction, which examines the record of the main offset scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The full report can be downloaded here. Tackling climate change urgently requires major cuts in … [Read more...]
The Edible Schoolyard Book
At a time when our Enviro Schools programe is being challenged by funding cuts, here is some inspiration to show what is possible. Do we need funding to do this, or can we self-organise and bring this sort of wisdom to our local schools, ourselves? This video was created by Mario de La Vega to promote the Edible Schoolyard book, which chronicles the integration of academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food over the last 13 years. With inspiring images of the garden … [Read more...]
King Corn (2007)
King Corn (2007)King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But … [Read more...]
OSE TV Interview – Austria Tour
We just got a copy of this TV interview that we did back on the OSE tour in Austria. Michaela from Earthship Austria organized this particular event. The interview took place at a local TV station in Bad Kleinkirchheim - a well known ski resort town in Austria. Both Inga and Michaela agree that this is a good, brief introduction (12 minutes) to OSE. We recommend it as a good entry level discussion for those less familiar with open source development - but it also touches on the deeper issues. … [Read more...]
Transport in Transition. A Guest Piece by Peter Lipman.
Transformation Moment: low carbon travel. How, and how far, will we travel if we make the changes we need to in order to thrive in a carbon constrained society? For a range of interlocking reasons, the conclusion of this paper is that we will be happier, healthier and more resilient if we radically change from [...] … [Read more...]
The Good Life
Are you living The Good Life? … [Read more...]
When is a problem not a problem?
News of the Dark Mountain Project has started to reach civilisation. Few institutions could be more civilised, more wedded to the myth of progress, than the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce – yet its Arts and Ecology editor, William Shaw, is not immune to ‘Uncivilisation’, describing the manifesto as “erudite, lyrical and, most of all, apocalyptic in an almost William Blake-ish kind of way.” Meanwhile, in the pages of the Morning Star, Chris T-T (who also … [Read more...]
A ‘new’ currency
In an imploding global economy, we are being challenged to imagine different ways of being and 'new' structures and means of exchange, in order to meet our essential human needs within society. If you are struggling to imagine how things could be different, take a breath, sit back, relax and allow the messages in this video about a working gift economy, wash over you and give you a vision for what could be (thanks for the link Darren). And if you prefer to hear about these ideas from a man in a … [Read more...]
Lots of Transition TV
If you like a little video inspiration from time to time, here are two great sources of content from the Transition field. There are lots more, but these will keep you going for a while. The NSW Transition website has a range of well organised videos. Here are some videos focussed on the very valuable skill of seedsaving. And then there are all sorts of video on the New Zealand Transition Towns site… … [Read more...]
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