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Oil companies to buy the world!

Here is some scary inside news on Big Energy plans for biofuel and biomass energy production (my own quick thoughts and some useful links follow): > I went ‘undercover’ to a 2 days summit last year in Paris, This event was meant for all the oil companies of the world

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Peer Trust Network, OSE and More!

I sent this out on The Open Co-op [https://open.coop] mailing list [https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/open] (amongst others) but should’ve posted it up here too… This chap Stan Rhodes has a vision that is very familiar to me… https://www.p2pfoundation.net/Narrative_on_Discovering_

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Days of action for squats and autonomous spaces

From https://april2008.squat.net/en/ castellano [https://april2008.squat.net/es/] | catala [https://april2008.squat.net/cat/] | czech [https://april2008.squat.net/cz/] | dansk [https://april2008.squat.net/dk/] | deutsch [https://april2008.squat.net/de/] | english [https://april2008.squat.net/en/] | français [https://april2008.squat.net/fr/] | italiano [https:

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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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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

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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/]

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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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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/

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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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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

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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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Enterprising Communities Conference 2006

I’m going to do my best to attend this conference. Should be a great networking opportunity and a good place to tell people about Commons Creation [https://uniteddiversity.com/commons-creation/] > Birmingham, 17th – 19th September. The Development Trusts Association [https://uniteddiversity.com/Development Trusts Association] is planning the biggest

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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

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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

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Support THE SQUARE this FRIDAY 9AM or earlier

Hello everyone, Please go to: THE SQUARE [https://www.londonsocialcentre.org.uk] Occupied Social Centre, 21 Russell Square, London WC1B 5EA (North west Side of Russell Square) Map: https://tinyurl.com/mhuby on FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE 9AM (but do still come later if you really can’t make it by

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Composting Toilet Project

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Legal Structures for Community Land groups

I was recently lucky enough to find myself being cc’d in a fascinating and informative discussion about legal structures for Community Land groups… Sharon Pollitt from Land Roots [https://www.landroots.co.uk] wrote: > Please find attached a legal status questionaire, sound really boring and your probebly gonna

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Visit to Yelnow Farm

The weekend before last I went up to Bedford to visit Shane (one of the founders of the Creative Forum [https://creativeforum.org]). For the last couple of years Shane has been working for himself running a landscape gardening business. He recently realised that he’s working his arse off

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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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Housing Co-ops

Just sent this out to a couple of lists… People keep asking me about Housing Co-ops 🙂 Here are a few good links: Finding Housing Co-ops in London https://www.cch.coop/coopinfo/london.html https://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/iane/coops/coopsdirlondon.html How to set up a Housing

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An autonomous space initiative during the Athens ESF...

This just in via the labofii [https://www.labofii.net] list… AUTONOMOUS (ESF) PLAYGROUND Invitation for the creation of an autonomous space during the 4th European Social Forum (Spring, 2006, Athens) This spring, the 4th European Social Forum will take place in Athens. Thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of people

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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

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Friday: Kalahari Bushmen Benefit

Come and visit the uniteddiversity stall at the Kalahari Bushmen Benefit @ LSE this Friday night… Synergy Communities and Tribal Vibrationz Present: Kalahari Raising money and awareness for the Kalahari Bushmen who are currently locked in a battle with the Botswanan government, fighting for the right to return to their ancestral