All stories 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
Activism 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/
Activism Dancing with Systems Versions of this piece have been published in Whole Earth, [https://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/447.html] winter 2001 and The Systems Thinker, [https://thesystemsthinker.com/] Vol. 13, No. 2 (March 2002). > > The Dance 1. Get the beat. 2. Listen to the wisdom of the system. 3. Expose
All stories An Introduction to Planet Earth... I think this, "Dr. Art's guide to planet Earth : for earthlings ages 12 to 120", is probably the best introduction to Planet Earth I’ve ever read. Here is my one page edit… Earth is Whole Earth is not flat. Earth is much more than round.
All stories 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
All stories News from Caracas... Julie, a freelance journalist I met in Caracas, just sent this through… The story so far… Dear All, My apologies for sending round one of these here round robins but tis the best i can do in the time… Well, there is simply TOO MUCH to tell you all about
All stories Good Weekend, Busy Week... Had a good weekend…and with Another World Is Blossoming [https://blog.uniteddiversity.com/?p=11] kicking off, plus a load of other work, its going to be a busy week… Thursday night I headed along to Movimientos [https://www.freewebs.com/movimientos/events.htm] at the Salmon and Compass
Activism Another World Is Blossoming ANOTHER WORLD IS BLOSSOMING: March 1st – 31st, 2006 https://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming The systems and institutions upon which we rely for our well-being and survival are at risk of massive failure. Ecosystems everywhere are in decline. The age of cheap plentiful oil is over. Food and energy shortages are
Activism Caracas Trollparty 2006: Part 1 Caracas Trollparty 2006 [https://caracas.trollparty.org] Wednesday 25th Janauary, Caracas. My first few days in Caracas have been quite an experience. On Saturday a couple of guys tried to snatch my camcorder at gunpoint, and on Tuesday evening I spoke live to the nation on Radio National Venezuela. It
All stories Designing an Open Organisation Another extract from a recent e-mail… > As for organisational structure, I think you and Imogen are both right. You need to define and be explicit about your structure, but operational units should have as much autonomy as possible within their defined limits/remit. People investing more time and energy
All stories 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
All stories uniteddiversity update Yesterday I went to UnLtd [https://www.unltd.org.uk/] to find out about their Level 2 funding process. I had previously attended a Level 1 surgery, but found that fairly useless. This was different… I met lots of interesting people and though the competition is tough, it seems quite
All stories 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
All stories Creative Regeneration @ The Synergy Centre Hello everyone, The next Creative Regeneration [https://open.coop/creative+regen] networking meeting and Open Space [https://open.coop/open+space] event will be on Saturday Septemer 17th @ The Synergy Centre [https://www.thesynergyproject.org]. Creative Regeneration Networking meeting and Open Space Saturday September 17th, 2005 11am – 5pm @ The Synergy
All stories Peace Not War @ Cargo, Sept 11th 2005 THE FUTURE OF PEACE NOT WAR [https://peace-not-war.org/PNW-September11-FRONT.jpg] A new collective of musicians, activists and techies has formed. 45 people attended the inaugural meeting of the Peace Not War Collective, held on July 30th at St George’s Circle Community Centre [https://www.circlecommunity.org], London. Many
