I'm off to Cloud Cuckoo Land Festival now, but thought I'd better whack this presentation I did at the London Permaculture Festival up first. I gives a brief history of United Diversity plus details of our exciting plans going forward. The sound isn't too good so when I get the time I'll do a full transcript with links any everything, but for now, enjoy! … [Read more...]
Josef’s Journey to John O’Groats
Since this journey has ended up being a major milestone in the development of United Diversity I though I had better re-post this write up I did for the Brake The Cycle blog here too. Enjoy! (note: click on images to enlarge) Last month I cycled about 1200 miles, from the south-easternmost tip of mainland England (Land's End) up to the north-westernmost tip of mainland Scotland (John O'Groats). I thus completed one half of the Brake the Cycle End to End challenge! :) It was the UK's coldest … [Read more...]
The Finland Phenomenon – the best education system in the world?
I posted yesterday about the urgent need to change education paradigms. As such it feels fitting to final re-post this post from Gloria's blog here: Have you noticed there's a lot of hullabaloo about Finland's education system lately? I've been paying attention to what the Finns have been doing for a couple years now, but it is only after reading an essay by Sam Abrams I've thought to pay attention to Finland's neighbour Norway. Norway and Finland have some similarities. They are neighbouring … [Read more...]
TOGETHER. How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis
This great new documentary, featuring Mondragon and other co-operative inspirations shows how it is not just financial co-operatives who are more resilient to crisis, but all co-ops. The examples are from around Europe, but the same is true in the UK. The UK co-operative economy is performing significantly better than the UK economy as a whole with things like Community-owned Village Shops proving to have much higher survival rates than others. … [Read more...]
Crowd Farming at TEDxSydney 2013
Huge respect to TEDxSydney for doing thing properly when it comes to food. Watch the video for the inspirational story of how they fed the entire Sydney Opera House audience of 2,200 people at TEDXSydney 2013 with crowd sourced locally grown food. All conferences everywhere should do this. … [Read more...]
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
I love Pam Warhust. She is such a inspirational, grounded and powerful woman. This is one of my favourite TED talks, by far. Please, watch and share it now. It is about the inspirational story of Incredible Edible Todmorden which has now spawned the Incredible Edible Network. But, as she hints at so powerfully towards the end of the talk, this is about so much more than food. It is about community empowerment. This is about sharing and investing in kindness It is about Community, … [Read more...]
97% Owned – documentary about money and economics
Back in May 2003 we started a wiki to 'discuss monetary reform and democracy', and I just posted Positive Money's Banking 101 video course, probably the best introduction to how money and banking actually works. For a long time Money as Debt was best and only documentary film about these issues. Later, the Zeitgeist films (despite their many failings) thankfully managed to get the word out to many more people. Most recently we've had Money and Life cover this topic, and before that The Money … [Read more...]
Banking 101 – How money and banking actually works
This great little collection of videos is the clearest and most authoritative introduction to exactly how the monetary and banking system in the UK actually works. It is based on the excellent book 'Where Does Money Come From?' published by the Positive Money campaign and the new economics foundation … [Read more...]
Homes and Hands – Community Land Trusts in Action
We'll never have a peaceful, just and sustainable world (or, as Charles Eisenstein says 'the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible') whilst the land that sustains us all is owned and controlled by a tiny minority of the population. We need to transcend private land ownership. But what is the alternative? Community Land Trusts are a good option and Homes and Hands is a great video that illustrates the different ways that community land trusts operate in the U.S. Produced by Women's … [Read more...]
Changing Education Paradigms
Over 3 million people have watched Ken Robinson's 2006 TED Talk about how schools kill creativity. But when it comes to videos about the need to change education there are few more famous tham the above RSA Animate 11 minute version of his hour long RSA talk about changing education paradigms. So far over 10 million people have seen it. If you're not one of them, watch it now. If you are, watch it again to remind yourself how important it is that we change our education systems sooner rather … [Read more...]
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