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Email to Toby Hemenway re: Piracy

NOTE: I’ve had a series [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-2996] of increasingly [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-3007] great [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-3030] responses [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-3033] from Toby – please see the comments Toby Hemenway [https://patternliteracy.com/], a leading permaculture author sent me a message w

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Towards a Dark Mountain reading list

This post by Dougald Hine [https://dougald.co.uk/] originally appeared on the Dark Mountain [https://dark-mountain.net/blog/towards-a-dark-mountain-reading-list/https://dark-mountain.net/blog/towards-a-dark-mountain-reading-list/] blog Over the last few weeks, a lot of people have asked us to suggest books which pick up on the themes of this project.

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More money books

A while back I posted Money Books [https://uniteddiversity.com/money-books/], a collection of my favourite books all about money. Now, with the global economy struggling on all sides with economic collapse, climate change and peak oil very much beginning to kick in, I thought I share a few more

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Transition Handbook Now Open Source!

I’ve been meaning to contribute for ages, but here is my first post on the P2P Foundation blog [https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-transition-handbook-now-gfdl-at-appropedia/2008/10/06] , about my role in helping to open source the wonderful Transition Handbook [https://uniteddiversity.com/transition-handbook/]

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Transition Handbook

UPDATE: The Transition Handbook is now online in a wiki [https://www.appropedia.org/The_Transition_Handbook]! 😛 UPDATE: download Transition-Handbook.pdf [https://files.uniteddiversity.com/Transition_Relocalisation_Resilience/Transition_Network/Transition-Handbook.pdf] UPDATE: download Transition-Handbook.odt [https://files.uniteddiversity.com/Transition_Relocalisation_Resilience/Transition_Network/Transition-Handbook.odt] See also: Transition

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Money Books

After our last Open Coin [https://opencoin.org] meeting George Walker [https://www.ccls.edu/staff/walker.html] took us into his office to continue chatting. He is a fascinating chap, check out his CV [https://www.ccls.edu/documents/staff/walker.pdf] (.pdf). In the first OpenCoin meeting he

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David Korten – The Great Turning

Last night, when I should’ve been asleep, I watched these video clips and was left totally inspired. 🙂 I strongly encourage you to watch them too. Its great stuff! You should also buy the book: [amtap book:isbn=1887208070] UPDATE: The book in bullet points from David Korten [https://davidkorten.

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Recipe for a New World Order?

Whilst up in Bedford visiting the farm [https://uniteddiversity.com/visit-to-yelnow-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

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Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July

uniteddiversity ran our book stall [https://uniteddiversity.com/shop/] 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

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An Introduction to Planet Earth...

I think this, "Dr. Art's guide to planet Earth : for earthlings ages 12 to 120", is probably the best introduction to Planet Earth I’ve ever read. Here is my one page edit… Earth is Whole Earth is not flat. Earth is much more than round.

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Friday: Kalahari Bushmen Benefit

Come and visit the uniteddiversity stall at the Kalahari Bushmen Benefit @ LSE this Friday night… Synergy Communities and Tribal Vibrationz Present: Kalahari Raising money and awareness for the Kalahari Bushmen who are currently locked in a battle with the Botswanan government, fighting for the right to return to their ancestral