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United Diversity at the London Permaculture Festival

August 1, 2013 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

I'm off to Cloud Cuckoo Land Festival now, but thought I'd better whack this presentation I did at the London Permaculture Festival up first. I gives a brief history of United Diversity plus details of our exciting plans going forward. The sound isn't too good so when I get the time I'll do a full transcript with links any everything, but for now, enjoy! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Community, Cooperative, Effective Organising, Energy, Permaculture, Video Tagged With: All stories, Co-ops, Community, Cooperative, Effective Organising, Energy, Events, Josef Davies-Coates, London, Permaculture, Presentation, Talk, United Diversity, Video

Crowd Farming at TEDxSydney 2013

August 1, 2013 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

Huge respect to TEDxSydney for doing thing properly when it comes to food. Watch the video for the inspirational story of how they fed the entire Sydney Opera House audience of 2,200 people at TEDXSydney 2013 with crowd sourced locally grown food. All conferences everywhere should do this. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Events, Food, Video Tagged With: Agriculture, All stories, Conference, Crowd, Crowd Farming, Events, Farming, Food, Local, Organic, TEDxSydney, Video

Building communities we’d like to see

September 3, 2011 by gloria Leave a Comment

This summer United Diversity is helping the West Lexham Education Centre 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 Norfolk countryside, West Lexham engages with both local and national partners to promote sustainability, learning and wellbeing. West Lexham has a number of buildings that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Community, Ecological Building, Education, Land Tagged With: All stories, Community, Ecological Building, Education, Events, Food, Land, Norfolk, Permaculture, Sustainability, West Lexham Education Centre

DeSchool, D-Skool, ReallyReally Freeschool

January 23, 2011 by jdaviescoates 5 Comments

Just got this message from Persons Unknown January - February 2011 Fingers crossed Surrounded by institutions and universities, there is newly occupied space where education can be re-imagined. Amidst the rising fees and mounting pressure for ‘success’, we value knowledge in a different currency; one that everyone can afford to trade. In this school, skills are swapped and information shared, culture cannot be bought or sold. Here is an autonomous space to find each other, to gain momentum, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, All stories, Community, Education, Spaces Tagged With: Activism, All stories, Art, bloomsbury, Commons, Community, deschool, deshooling, Education, Events, Free, free school, holborn, London, P2P Education, Social Centres, Spaces, Squat, Squats, UK

Coworking at The Clouds – An Invitation

January 18, 2011 by jdaviescoates 5 Comments

Every Tuesday from 11am until about 4-5pm (sometime later - lots of good stuff happens here in the evenings too) United Diversity and VisionOn.TV will be hosting upstairs at Passing Clouds (1 Richmond Road, London E8 4AA) as a free Coworking space. Are you working on an intelligent response to climate, energy or economic uncertainty? A community land, money or media project perhaps? Or any other imaginative initiative for a radically better world (hat tip toour friends at The Hub network of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, Community, Events, Spaces, Video Tagged With: Activism, Community, coworking, dalston, Events, hackney, London, passing clouds, Spaces, the clouds, UK, Video

Local Currency Council’s First Interactive Online Conference.

June 29, 2010 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

https://localcurrencycouncil.org/ Participants will be joining us through web cam feeds & phone/Skype access. You can call in and speak with our presenters, join the discussion, and contribute using the live chat. If you’d like to present or have topics you’d like to see covered please contact us. We are scheduling guests who will be presenting on a variety of topics, and joining in various group discussions. Our first participants come from the UK, Toronto Canada, and Washington DC, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Events, Money Tagged With: All stories, Conference, Currency, Economics, Events, Local, Money

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

City Repair LA

September 13, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

Mark Lakeman stares down the new Bimini Street salamander.Portland architect and activist Mark Lakeman, founder of the City Repair movement, is in Los Angeles for a week of lectures and activities. Lakeman believes in actions that correct what he believes is our disassociation from nature and our alienation from each other. He's a passionate opponent of the grid, the imposition of street networks and regimented thinking that he traces back to Roman imperialism. He's probably most famous for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, All stories, Community, Ecoliving, Ecological Building, Events, Land, Money, Permaculture, Spaces Tagged With: Activism, All stories, Building, Buildingman, Cities, Community, Ecoliving, Ecological Building, Events, Land, Money, Permaculture, Spaces

want to start a csa?

September 11, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

In a city? Just Food will help you! Here’s info on an upcoming workshop series: Interested in how to get fresh, local and organic produce in New York City? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) connects local farmers with New York City residents through a unique, pre-paid share system. Members buy a share at the beginning of the CSA season and in exchange, receive a weekly share of 7-10 types of locally grown, organic vegetables – enough for a family of 2-3 people. Members pick up their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Community, Ecoliving, Events, Food Tagged With: Agriculture, All stories, Community, Community Supported Agriculture, Ecoliving, Events, Food

Who Has The Best Taste? OneTaste does.

August 21, 2009 by jdaviescoates Leave a Comment

If you have been to a UK festival in the last few years, chances are that at some point you found yourself dancing in the OneTaste tent. Having residency at Glastonbury, Big Chill and Secret Garden Party to name but a mere few, OneTaste have acquired a devoted fan base of festival goers who want a guarantee that when they walk into a tent they will get the following components; top quality live music, an high-spirited and friendly crowd, and twenty four hour revelry. OneTaste in Hyde Park, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All stories, Events Tagged With: All stories, Events, Live, London, Music, UK

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