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
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!
Activism The Permaculture Concept Check out this video will Bill Mollison, co-founder of the Permaculture concept, explaining The Permaculture Concept… On google video As a youtube playlist
Agriculture Crude Impact Another great film about Peak Oil and the impact of oil on society. The player below includes all 9 parts as a youtube playlist 🙂 For more info check out https://www.crudeimpact.com/
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
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 Prophecy, Peak Oil and the Path for the Faithful I recently watched this video and thought it was really good summary of some of the important issues it covers. If you are a Christian you might want to get it shown in your church or invite Rev Sam Norton [https://elizaphanian.blogspot.com/] along for a talk. Even if
All stories Carbon Con update A while ago, prompted by a load of Hub [https://www.the-hub.net] members sending details about numerous Carbon “offsetting” companies to the Hub list, I wrote The Carbon Con [https://uniteddiversity.coop/carbon-con]. One of the comments I got was from tav of green.tv [https://green.tv] >
Activism Commons Creation meeting The first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting took place on Sunday 21st January: So far I’ve got some great groups signed up to the collective: Peace Not War: https://peace.fm [https://peace.fm/] The Synergy Project: https://thesynergyproject.org [https://thesynergyproject.org/] OneTaste: https://onetaste.co.uk
Activism The Carbon "Offset" Con Here is the text of an e-mail I sent out earlier today: > Sorry to smash the illusion folks, but I’ve done considerable research into this and carbon “off-sets” are a con. We cannot neutralise, nor “off-set”, carbon we have already emitted (or are about to emit by driving,
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 Free 'Peak Oil' conference in London, 15 July 2006 The agenda is available here as a PDF [https://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/images/stories/peakspeak2/peakspeak2agenda.pdf] A free-to-attend conference looking at many aspects of Peak Oil is taking place on Saturday 15 July 2006 at the BedZed development in Hackbridge, just outside London. The event, Peak Speak
All stories The Merton Rule uniteddiversity built and manages https://themertonrule.org [https://themertonrule.org] The ‘Merton Rule [https://themertonrule.org]‘ is the groundbreaking planning policy, pioneered by the London Borough of Merton, which requires the use of renewable energy onsite to reduce annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the built environment. Hundreds of local
All stories The London Fund Extract from an e-mail I sent recently… > My current focus is on building the necessary partnerships needed to launch The London Fund: a community finance, fundraising and marketing solution for social enterprises committed to building a sustainable collaborative economy. Apparently the Mayor’s vision is “for London to become
