All stories What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire I just watched this. As it says at the beginning it is very dense, but overall I think it is really rather good. For more info about the movie visit the website [https://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/] Peak Moment 72: “What a Way to Go” – Meet the Filmmakers
Activism Dialstation: Cheap International Calls from Your Mobile Ever wondered what the best way to make international calls from your mobile [https://dialstation.com] is? Well, the answer is Dialstation [https://dialstation.com]. There are lots of ways to an initiate a call (including a facebook app [https://apps.facebook.com/dialstation/]) but the one I’ve personally
Activism This Is What Democracy Looks Like One of the first documentaries made by Big Noise Films [https://www.bignoisefilms.com/] and still one of the best. This follows the explosive events of Seattle in 1999.
Activism We Have Land! Hello all, INTRO As some of you know already, I’m out in Spain acquiring land for the Commons! 🙂 I came out here with 4 main tasks: 1. to see and help my Dad 2. to get my Dad’s land transferred into my name so we can invest it
Activism Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war This is a great documentary about Venezuela. See also The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/]
Agriculture The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil This is one of the best videos about Peak Oil because rather than focussing on the potential doom and gloom, it shows how communities can work together to implement solutions 🙂 Watch it now!
Agriculture The End of Suburbia Another “must see” documentary for all you folks out there. We’ve screened this one too 🙂 (PS – this is a 52 minute edit of the original 78 minute full length version available on DVD from https://www.endofsuburbia.com/ ) And here it is in not so good quality but with
All stories The Corporation Another must see documentary that we’ve screened [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-corporation-zapatista-space-hijackers-and-lab-of-ii/] a couple of times. Watch it now! (and considering buying the book or original DVD, or just donating, at https://www.thecorporation.com/ )
Activism Inspiring Land, Money and Media Projects In my last post about Transition Towns [https://uniteddiversity.com/transition-towns/] I mentioned that Gloria and I decided to try and write a post a day throughout May about inspiring people and projects. She’s done a pretty good job so far, having covered Maya Angelou [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/
Activism Transition Towns So, we’re both a day late, but Gloria [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com] and I somehow decided that every day in May was going to be inspirational! Each day Gloria will a post about an inspirational person [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/search/label/Inspirational%20People%20Month], and I’ll highlight
Agriculture 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.
All stories Very Exciting News Yesterday I had the most amazing and inspiring phone call ever. A man called Ray called me from Cornwall, 2km from where Oli was already but totally randomly literally on his way to (thanks to Katharine), and basically said that he wants to entrust his land to a community very
All stories Commons Creation Collective UPDATE: the first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting [https://uniteddiversity.com/commons-creation-meeting] was held at Limehouse Town Hall on Sunday 21st January, 2007. A copy of the presentation given can be downloaded here as a PDF [https://files.uniteddiversity.com/United_Diversity/commons-creation.pdf] (1.1Mb) file. Enjoy! 🙂 Introduction
All stories 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
All stories Interdependence Day, 1st July 2006 Interdependence Day, 1st July 2006, Royal Geographic Society, London Renga Platform Poetry A renga is a series of short verses linked into one long poem, composed collaboratively by a group. It is a wonderful, reflective experience which draws inspiration from the seasons and our changing relationships with the natural world.
All stories new economics foundation cd-rom uniteddiversity produced a cd-rom for nef (new economics foundation) to take to the 2002 Earth Summit in Johannessburg.
Activism The Corporation, Zapatista, Space Hijackers and Lab of ii... Film and Food @ The Synergy Centre Another World Is Blossoming Screening Thursday March 23rd from 6pm Entry by donation The Synergy Centre is located at: 220 Farmers Road London SE5 0TW Click here to see a map [https://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=531500.106746092&
