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New American Currency

Check out plans for a new currency in the US…

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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Money as Debt

Widespread debt slavery created by an insane banking system is undoubtedly one of the biggest problems we all face. This video animation, Money as Debt [https://www.moneyasdebt.net/] by Paul Grignon [https://www.moneyasdebt.net/], is undoubtedly one the most important films ever made. If you don’t yet

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The Secrets of Personal Fundraising

by Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog [https://beth.typepad.com] [https://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed] | View [https://slideshare.net/kanter/secrets-of-personal-fundraising] | Upload your own [https://www.slideshare.net/upload]

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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

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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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Network

Here are some clips from the amazing 1976 film, Network. A truly brilliant film about media that also touches on the realities of oil and money. The classic “Mad as Hell” speech is repeated a bit below, because I wanted to include the first clip that includes what happened beforehand,

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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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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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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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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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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