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Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action

We’ll never have a peaceful, just and sustainable world (or, as Charles Eisenstein [https://charleseisenstein.net/] says ‘the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible [https://vimeo.com/66550562]‘) whilst the land that sustains us all is owned and controlled by a tiny minority of the population. We

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COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy

This is one of the best documentaries about Community Supported Agriculture, Community Land Trusts and Community Currencies. > COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy, is a new 37 minute film that tells the story of a series of revolutionary innovations by the community of

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Edible City - Grow the Revolution

Just came across this great film: > Edible City: Grow the Revolution [https://web.archive.org/web/20200116144032/http://www.ediblecitythemovie.com:80/] is a fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and

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Springhill Cohousing

Last Saturday Gloria and I joined members of the North London Sustainable Housing Partnership [https://nlshp.wordpress.com/] to visit the lovely Springhill Cohousing [https://www.springhillcohousing.com/] community in Stroud. The video above is a quick tour of the site (unfortunately my battery ran out before I got to

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DeSchool, D-Skool, ReallyReally Freeschool

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.

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Coworking at The Clouds – An Invitation

Every Tuesday from 11am until about 4-5pm (sometime later – lots of good stuff happens here in the evenings too) United Diversity [https://uniteddiversity.com] and VisionOn.TV [https://visionon.tv/] will be hosting upstairs at Passing Clouds [http://web.archive.org/web/20161016212347/http://www.passingclouds.org/] (1 Richmond Road,

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City Repair LA

[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OOlW-1cKA6k/Sq0uYsA6GoI/AAAAAAAACkg/uz-B0ftFvdg/s1600-h/mark.jpg] Mark Lakeman stares down the new Bimini Street salamander [https://monsters.monstrous.com/salamander.htm]. Portland architect and activist Mark Lakeman, founder of the City Repair [https://http//cityrepair.org/] movement, is in Los Angeles for a week

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Squat Freeshop on Commercial Road

Swap shops, Freeshops, give away shops, they all aim to go against the capitalist framework, and often people can’t quite get their heads around the idea, that, yes it is free and you can take it! Illustrations by Thereza Rowe [https://www.therezarowe.com/] When I dropped by the

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Save The Spike Surplus Scheme

The Spike [https://www.spikesurplus.org]in Peckham is under threat [https://www.petitiononline.com/paulk/petition.html]. With free permaculture courses, a community garden, recording studio, rehearsal space and much more, Spike is an exemplay example of volunteer community based regeneration. It is an important local resource. If you

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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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alt.SPACE MARATHON - TWO DAY EVENT - July 28-29, 2006

Via ccred [https://www.ccred.org] on the NODE London [https://www.nodel.org] list:> alt.SPACE MARATHON – TWO DAY EVENT – July 28-29, 2006 The alt.SPACE Group invites you to a two day long event of project presentations, performances open mic sessions, screenings, picnics and BBQs, and some

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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