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Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes

August 1, 2013 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: All stories, Community, Effective Organising, Food, Video Tagged With: Activism, Agriculture, All stories, Climate Change, Community, Effective Organising, Farming, Food, Politics, Video

Transition Tufnell Park

June 5, 2011 by jdaviescoates 1 Comment

Transition Tufnell Park (TTP) do the Big Dig Up! TPP, part of the wider Transition Network, are one of the latest Transition initiatives in London. Read more of our posts about Transition for more info and be sure to check out the Transition, Relocalisation and Resilience folder in our Tools for Change library (also relevant are the Food, Energy, Peak Oil, Climate Change and Permaculture folders). You may also be interested in our Transition Sessions project … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, All stories, Community, Energy, Food, Transition, Video Tagged With: Activism, All stories, Climate, Climate Change, Community, Energy, Food, Oil, Peak Oil, Projects, Transition, Transition Towns, Video

What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire

June 3, 2011 by jdaviescoates 1 Comment

"A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle" This is a really well put together film. Highly recommended. You can buy the film from the official website or download it using this torrent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Energy, Media, Video Tagged With: All stories, America, Climate Change, Documentary, Energy, Film, Mass Extinction, Media, Overshoot, Peak Oil, Population, USA, Video

Does Ecosia really have “impeccable ecological credentials”?

January 2, 2011 by jdaviescoates 83 Comments

UPDATE: Ecosia deserve huge respect for this: Ecosia is now taking concrete steps to facilitate climate activism. Going forward, all Ecosia employees can engage in climate activism during weekdays – they don’t need to take time off or call in sick. If they incur legal problems, Ecosia will support them and cover any related fees. If reasonable, nonviolent civil disobedience should lead any Ecosia employee to be incarcerated, their time behind bars will be counted as work … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Ecoliving, Energy Tagged With: All stories, Climate Change, Ecoliving, ecosia, Energy, green, search

Cancún: No agreement is better than a bad agreement!

December 11, 2010 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

December 9 statement by La Via Campesina: We call on humanity to act immediately to rebuild the life of all of nature, applying the concept of “life in balance.” Members of La Vía Campesina from more than thirty countries from all over the world united our thousands of struggles in Cancun to demand environmental and social justice, and respect for Mother Earth at the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 16). We joined together to denounce the attempts of governments, mainly from the North, to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Energy Tagged With: All stories, Cancun, Cancun 2010, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Energy

Mark Rutledge for Cap and Share models for sustainable energy commons

June 29, 2010 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

Via Feasta: “Cap and Share: mechanisms to share scarce resources and provide economic incentives for renewable energy and efficiency investment. Mark Rutledge, an environmental consultant, argues that the adoption of Cap and Share, Feasta’s proposed framework for a global climate treaty, is a necessary tool for dealing with peak oil and the current world recession. Unless it is used, any economic recovery will be strangled at birth as oil prices rise again. Recorded on day two of The New … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Energy, Video Tagged With: All stories, Carbon, Climate Change, Energy, Oil, Peak Oil, sharing, Sharing Economy, sustainable, Video

Will The Brixton Pound Buy A Brighter Future?

September 16, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

Brixton Market

by Leo Hickman Tomorrow the Transition Town movement launches a currency designed to boost local trade and bring communities closer together A Brixton market stallholder . . . 'It's Monopoly money,' says one. 'I won't be having anything to do with it'. Photograph: Graeme Robertson It has all the makings of a taxing pub quiz question: what links dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, environmental scientist James Lovelock, black civil rights activist Olive Morris and comedian Chris Morris with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Community, Money, Permaculture, Transition Tagged With: All stories, Brixton, Climate, Climate Change, Community, Currency, Local, London, Money, Permaculture, Transition, UK

London Vegan Festival

September 15, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

The London Vegan Festival this year took place in Kensington Town Hall, and was absolutely heaving. Usually, the odds of bumping into another vegan are slightly higher than those of two Esperanto speakers meeting, so hanging out in a hall packed full of them was a new experience – as was not having to ask ‘Is there dairy in this?’ at every food stall. Bliss. Almost as soon as someone mentions becoming vegan, people start to get a panicked look on their faces and tend to begin listing reasons … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Events, Food Tagged With: All stories, Climate, Climate Change, Events, Festival, Food, London, vegan

so when you say collapse…

September 10, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

This funny thing used to happen when my friend Todd and I discussed peak oil and energy descent back when we were just coming to grips with all of that. One of us would begin to explain a particular future scenario or perhaps a strategy to address that scenario. All of these conversations could be loosely described as plans to addresses to collapse of modern civilization. We were both a little more Doomer than we are today but even back then we recognized that “collapse” wouldn’t necessarily … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Energy, Money Tagged With: All stories, Climate, Climate Change, collapse, Economics, Energy, Money, Peak Oil

Backyard Solar Dish Melts Steel

August 29, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

We’re all familiar with the vast solar thermal power stations in the desert that use mirrors to make steam to drive turbines. Giant solar thermal arrays are already making electricity in the desert in Spain and California. But what if we could have just one of these units in the backyard, just for our own use? That’s what motivated a team of MIT students to find the way to make the cheapest solar power station out there. Mass produce it for the home user and market it under their own new start … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Climate Change, Ecological Building, Energy Tagged With: All stories, carbon emissions, Climate Change, consumer technology, Doug Wood, Ecological Building, Energy, Eva Markiewicz, Matt Ritter, Micah Sze, mit, solar, solar energy, solar melts steel, Spencer Ahrens

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