All stories COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy This is one of the best documentaries about Community Supported Agriculture, Community Land Trusts and Community Currencies. > COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy, is a new 37 minute film that tells the story of a series of revolutionary innovations by the community of
All stories Springhill Cohousing Last Saturday Gloria and I joined members of the North London Sustainable Housing Partnership [https://nlshp.wordpress.com/] to visit the lovely Springhill Cohousing [https://www.springhillcohousing.com/] community in Stroud. The video above is a quick tour of the site (unfortunately my battery ran out before I got to
All stories Building communities we'd like to see This summer United Diversity is helping the West Lexham Education Centre [https://www.westlexham.org] in a variety of ways. West Lexham Education Centre is an unblemished example of a project providing a leading-edge space that creates innovative services, meaningful training and supports sustainable enterprise opportunities. Located in the beautiful
All stories Strawbale prefab building timelapse – Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVHIKUgGkQ&feature=youtube_gdata]Strawbale prefab building timelapse – Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVHIKUgGkQ&feature=youtube_gdata] This clip is part of film material for a new film about strawbale building: "Houses of straw – Part 2"
Activism City Repair LA [https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OOlW-1cKA6k/Sq0uYsA6GoI/AAAAAAAACkg/uz-B0ftFvdg/s1600-h/mark.jpg] Mark Lakeman stares down the new Bimini Street salamander [https://monsters.monstrous.com/salamander.htm]. Portland architect and activist Mark Lakeman, founder of the City Repair [https://http//cityrepair.org/] movement, is in Los Angeles for a week
Accomplishments Soil Pulverizer Annihilates Soil Handling Limits We are glad to report that the LifeTrac [https://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=797] -mounted, open source soil pulverizer has annihilated soil-handling limits from our compressed earth brick (CEB) pressing ability. Initial testing achieved 5 ton per hour soil throughput, while The Liberator CEB press [https://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=
All stories Backyard Solar Dish Melts Steel [https://cleantechnica.com/files/2009/08/rawsolar.jpg] 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
All stories Fish Systems and Design [https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010368.html] A grim new film, The End of the Line, [https://endoftheline.com/] reveals the impact of overfishing on our oceans. It exposes the extent to which global stocks of fish are dwindling; features scientists who warn we could see the end of most
