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First Fuel Cell Tractor to Make its Debut

The recent furore surrounding biofuels and the food vs. fuel arguments, has highlighted to the world how important industrialised agriculture is to maintaining a steady food supply, and how precious our bio-productive land is. When we start diverting land to producing stuff other than food there are serious issues to

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Bolivian government calls for Open Source Appropriate Technology

The following text [https://www.alternet.org/story/112765/bolivian_president_evo_morales%3A_20_ways_to_save_mother_earth_and_prevent_environmental_disaster/?page=entire] on development in the context of climate change, by Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, contains 20 proposals, three of which are an undisguised call

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In Debt We Trust

In America’s earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and

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What Would Jesus Buy?

An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy [https://www.revbilly.com/] and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film

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Curtis 50 Cent Jackson Community Garden Opening Celebration

(Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images North America) On November 3, 2008, 50 Cent, along with New York Restoration Project founder Bette Midler, had the honor of celebrating the opening of the The Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden in Queens on 117-19 165th Street. A native of Jamaica, Queens,

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PhD Thesis - Urban agriculture and urban planning in Tanzania

Demolition of structures and urban agriculture lots on road reserves and harassment to smallholder farmers in road strips areas are common: Photos, January 2006 at Ubungo Darajani. Improving urban land governance with emphasis on integrating agriculture based livelihoods in spatial land use planning practise in Tanzania By Wakuru Magigi From

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Room to Grow: Participatory Landscapes and Urban Agriculture at New York University

By Adam Brock September, 2008 A research paper I (Adam Brock) wrote under supervision from NYU professor Natalie Jeremijenko in Summer 2008. The conclusion? It’s not lack of land that’s preventing us from growing food on campus – it’s the politics of centrally-controlled space. Abstract Urban Agriculture presents

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Links for December 1st to December 8th

These are my links for December 1st to December 8th: * Increasing the sustainability of existing homes by sharing information, developing local action networks and facilitating co-operative buys. [https://www.eco-renovation.org/] – The Eco-Renovation Network is a new and voluntary initiative. We want to encourage individuals to take action to increase

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Links for December 1st

These are my links for December 1st: * Landmatters Permaculture Project – Home [https://www.landmatters.org.uk/] – Landmatters Co-operative own and manage a 42 acre holding in South Hams, Devon. Using a design system called permaculture, we are managing the land for the benefit of bio-diversity and wildlife whilst providing for

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Links for November 24th to December 1st

These are my links for November 24th to December 1st: * WordPress › cformsII – contact form « WordPress Plugins [https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cforms/] – cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even

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Pipped to the post

I have been saying that I know of no complementary currency system based on a social networking platform apart from my own, marketplace, but all that changed this week. Congratulations to Austin Time Exchange [https://www.austintimeexchange.org/], who launched their site days before my first site. (watch this space)

Activism

Topshop Swap Shop

We’ve got Swaporamarama [https://www.swaporamarama.org/] and Swishing [https://www.swishing.org/] and now, the Topshop Swap Shop… [https://uniteddiversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/poster.jpg]Topshop Swap Shop Just in from the inimitable Space Hijackers [https://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/]: Ladies and Gentlemen we are proud

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Links for November 20th to November 24th

These are my links for November 20th to November 24th: * The Mad Housers – an Atlanta-based nonprofit group engaged in direct action to shelter the homeless [https://madhousers.org/] – MAD HOUSERS Inc. is an Atlanta-based non-profit corporation engaged in charitable work, research and education. Our charter outlines our goals and purposes:

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Links for November 13th to November 18th

These are my links for November 13th to November 18th: * Survey: Software for LETS [https://web.archive.org/web/20051101011227/https://www.letslinkuk.net/members/software.htm] – The web archive page of a list of software project for community currencies * Richard Kay’s 2005 WSFII Bullet Points [https://copsewood.net/

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Links for November 11th to November 13th

These are my links for November 11th to November 13th: * The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia [https://www.nytimes-se.com/] – Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom were brought to an unceremonious close today. * The Yes Men [https://www.theyesmen.org/] – Impersonating big-time criminals in order

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Links for November 6th to November 10th

These are my links for November 6th to November 10th: * Attention Profiling: APML Beginner’s Guide – Robin Good’s Latest News [https://www.masternewmedia.org/online_marketing/attention-profiling-apml/apml-beginners-guide-attention-profile-20071113.htm] – Attention profiling is quite possibly the next wave of smarter, more relevant web browsing. APML is an emerging standard that

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Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve

This is part 3 of the original Zeitgeist Movie [https://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/] (see some of my thoughts on that here [https://uniteddiversity.com/zeitgeist-addendum/]), all about money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/], banking [https://uniteddiversity.com/tag/banking/] and the Federal Reserve in the US.

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Zeitgeist: Addendum

After the first Zeitgeist Movie [https://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/] was released it was saddening how many people took at as the whole and complete truth without asking any further questions (particularly when the homepage of the films producer used to read “It is my hope that people will not take

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The Money Masters

This very long (215 minutes) money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/] documentary has lots of interesting history in it about the battle over the control of money and banking in the US. If I remember rightly the presenter proposes going back to the gold standard, but whilst that might be better

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The Matrix - A Poem by Paradox

I know Paradox from the London party scene. He’s a good chap 🙂 Here is a great poem he wrote about money [https://uniteddiversity.com/money/] and banking [https://uniteddiversity.com/tag/banking/]… The Matrix [https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=10874821]

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Links for November 5th

These are my links for November 5th: * Arduino – HomePage [https://www.arduino.cc/] – Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. * Main Page – OpenSim [https://opensimulator.org/

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A Place Called Chiapas

Another documentary about the Zapatista [https://uniteddiversity.com/zapatista/] movement in Chiapas, Mexico.

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Coconut Revolution

This is the amazing story of how a small island nation resisted against the might of corporate globalization and won. Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a

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Links for October 29th to November 3rd

These are my links for October 29th to November 3rd: * Royal Bank of Scotland embraces open source – ZDNet.co.uk [https://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39248923,00.htm] – The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed that it is working on a large content management system based on

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Links for October 28th to October 29th

These are my links for October 28th to October 29th: * bolo’bolo [https://www.geocities.com/situ1968/bolo/bolobolo.html] – Some nice pics from the book are here. Peinlich, aber wahr: gemäss bolo-Fahrplan von 1983 müssten wir schon längst alle in bolos leben. 40-Stundenwoche, Staatsgrenzen, Luftverschmutzung und AKWs sollten nur