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J Dilla, Speakers Corner Quartet & Excentral Tempest – Live

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Over The Breaks / The Life of a Scribe (Live Quartet Version) Pictures depict Speakers' Corner in London, Hyde Park, where usually public speaking is allowed on any subject without repercussions (except talking about overthrowing the British monarch or government). Artist Myspaces: https://www.myspace.com/jdilla https://www.myspace.com/speakerscornerquartet https://www.myspace.com/excentraltempest Author: AIRWRKS Keywords: dilla speakerscornerquartet excentral tempest … [Read more...]

Links for September 29th to September 30th

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These are my links for September 29th to September 30th: Community Food Security Coalition - Programs - What does this 123-page publication include? * Overview of potential benefits and outcomes of an assessment * Tips for planning and organizing an assessment * Guidance on research methods and strategies * Methods for promoting community participation * Ideas for translating assessment findings into action * Case studies of nine Community Food Assessments South Australia Community Garden … [Read more...]

Links for September 29th

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These are my links for September 29th: The Invisible Circus - Network for the sustainable use of energy in water and wastewater treatment - The water that you drink and use to flush the toilet all needs to be treated to provide everyone with safe drinking water and to protect the environment. However, this treatment uses a large amount of energy (8,000 GWh) each year. This is equivalent to you running about 100 million tumble driers non-stop for a year. EnerNet, UK - EPSRC network - … [Read more...]

Links for September 20th to September 24th

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These are my links for September 20th to September 24th: Open Source Ecology:Site support - Open Source Ecology - Donate to this project. Now. It is the most inspiring project I know of and I assure you your money will go to very good use. Be the change. Help out! :) Root Capital :: Home - Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that is pioneering finance for grassroots businesses in the developing world. We work with artisan and farmer associations that build sustainable livelihoods … [Read more...]

Links for September 5th to September 19th

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These are my links for September 5th to September 19th: P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Exploring Resilience Communities with John Robb (1): definition - John Robb, master analyst of global guerilla warfare, is very pessimistic about the potential of the current global system to prevail. This means that he expects, like us, a strong trend towards relocalization. However, his vision is more radical since he expects a global breakdown. Hence, the need for a distributed network of … [Read more...]

Herding cats

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The LETS world seems to attract idealists who start projects which are bigger than their ability to pursue them. Focusing on software, I only know of one project with more than one person working on it - Cyclos. There seem to be several one man initiatives which aren't going anywhere. And it's not like everyone is trying to achieve the same thing either, which explains in part why these people aren't working together. Here is a list of people and projects I have direct experience of: … [Read more...]

Damaging property to prevent climate change is legal

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A while ago a couple of peace activists who broke into a military airfield to damage B52 bombers argued they were preventing a greater crime and won their case (see www.b52two.org on web archive for the story). At the time I wondered "what if you used a similar defense for an action to prevent climate change"? Well, that has now happened and the jury is out, damaging property to prevent climate change is legal: Kingsnorth trial: Coal protesters cleared of criminal damage to chimney The trial … [Read more...]

Links for August 27th to September 5th

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These are my links for August 27th to September 5th: Open-Mesh Wireless Network | Affordable Wireless Solution | Open-Source / Ad Free - Now it is fast, easy and inexpensive to share an internet connection with neighbors in your apartment complex or extend wireless coverage throughout your home. Just plug one of these tiny (about the size of a pack of cards) routers into an existing internet connection and place additional units nearby to extend your internet range. WebHome < Main < … [Read more...]