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Room to Grow: Participatory Landscapes and Urban Agriculture at New York University

By Adam Brock September, 2008 A research paper I (Adam Brock) wrote under supervision from NYU professor Natalie Jeremijenko in Summer 2008. The conclusion? It’s not lack of land that’s preventing us from growing food on campus – it’s the politics of centrally-controlled space. Abstract Urban Agriculture presents

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Seva Cafe - Ahmedabad,India

YouTube – Seva Cafe – Ahmedabad,India [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0V1XVzD7ik] Nice little video about an organic cafe in India where you pay what you like. “This video is made by students of NID – Ahmedabad,India. To know more about Seva Cafe Visit us as : www.sevacafe.org [https:

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GOOD: Oil Addiction

YouTube – GOOD: Oil Addiction [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOm18c5Btiw]. If we’re addicted to oil, our twelve-step program should begin with admitting that we have a problem. As the price of oil creeps higher, finding new energy sources is more important than ever. But the search for alternatives,

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GuerrillaGardening.org News

Via GuerrillaGardening.org [https://GuerrillaGardening.org] Dear Troops It has been a month involving the police, a death, new guerrilla cells, poppy planting at the Ministry of Defence, bulb planting in the hundreds and lots of very smelly envelope stuffing. POLICE It’s been a while since the police took

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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

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[rampARTannounce] two square meals

Last Friday the rampART was used by locals to celebrate EID which marks the end of Ramadan. In Islam, believers are called upon to cease all consumption of food and drink between the hours of daylight for 30 consecutive days. Meanwhile, todays date, October 16th, is celebrated by the Food

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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The Future of Food

An important documentary about GM food and Monsanto. (sadly no longer available in full on google video, so here is an intro from youtube) As Celsias [https://www.celsias.com/blog/] put it, “this is a must-watch for anyone who eats (um… yes, that means you).” > “There is a

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Tescopoly

Following on from our last post on Supermarket Secrets [https://uniteddiversity.com/supermarket-secrets/], here is documentary about Tesco…. > “Tesco is Britain’s favourite supermarket. With 2,000 stores and 15 million customers a week, it’s almost twice as big as its nearest rival. Dispatches shows how Tesco could

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Supermarket Secrets

via Celsias [https://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/supermarket-secrets/]… An excellent two part Dispatches documentary on Supermarkets Secrets. Well worth watching. The amount of waste is crazy. And the way the animals most people eat are bred and treated is neither nice nor healthy. > “How and what

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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

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Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July

uniteddiversity ran our book stall [https://uniteddiversity.com/shop/] at this fair last year. It was as a lovely day, but suprisingly little people and virtually no sales. Hopefully more people will show up this year… > A date for your diaries – the Spitalfields Green Fair is happening on Sunday

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TONIGHT: Another World Is Blossoming

Another World Is Blossoming [https://uniteddiversity.com] Benefit Gig Friday 31st March @ The Synergy Centre 7pm – 3am, £10 / £7 adv/concs – Buy Tickets Now! [https://uniteddiversity.com] A Fundraiser for The Synergy Centre and uniteddiversity with Live Music from Joe Driscoll, The Pistachios, Jamie Woon, DJ Rubbish, The Rub, United

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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&

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Permaculture

> Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally production ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Screening

Thursday March 9th Film and Food @ The Synergy Centre Another World Is Blossoming Screening March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th from 6pm Entry by donation This month The Synergy Centre [https://www.thesynergyproject.org] is hosting uniteddiversity [https://uniteddiversity.com]‘s series of Another World Is Blossoming [https://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/