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Must See Film: Inside Job (with Spanish Subtitles)

Must See Film: Inside Job (with Spanish Subtitles)

Inside Job is a really good film that deserves your attention. I just stumbled across an online copy and thought I should post it so as many people get to see it as possible. If this copy disappears you can download it using bittorrent here [https://www.kat.ph/search/

Transition Tufnell Park

Transition Tufnell Park

Transition Tufnell Park [https://transitiontufnellpark.org.uk/] (TTP) do the Big Dig Up! TPP, part of the wider Transition Network [https://www.transitionnetwork.org/], are one of the latest Transition initiatives in London [https://london-transition.org.uk/]. Read more of our posts about Transition [https://uniteddiversity.com/category/transition/] for

GOOD Magazine: Oil Addiction Presentation

GOOD Magazine: Oil Addiction Presentation

This is a nice presentation from Good Magazine [https://www.good.is/]. “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

What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire

What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire

“A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle” This is a really well put together film. Highly recommended. You can buy the film from the official website [https://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/] or download it

Peak Oil - Visually Explained

Peak Oil - Visually Explained

“A Quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil. “This is the culmination of my year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak Oil.” https:

What is Permaculture?

What is Permaculture?

We’ve written before about Permaculture Principles [https://uniteddiversity.com/permaculture-principles/], and the video above is a great intro, but what exactly is Permaculture anyway [https://uniteddiversity.coop/what-is-permaculture/]? Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page] says: > “Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems

Coworking at The Clouds – An Invitation

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,

The London Orchard Project

The London Orchard Project

I love this project. > “The London Orchard Project [https://thelondonorchardproject.org/] is a fresh initiative promoting orchards and fruit trees in London. We are working with Londoners to plant and harvest apple, pear and plum trees all over the city, and help us all to rediscover the pleasure of

Strawbale prefab building timelapse – Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVHIKUgGkQ&feature=youtube_gdata]Strawbale prefab building timelapse – Strohballen Vorfertigung Zeitraffer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVHIKUgGkQ&feature=youtube_gdata] This clip is part of film material for a new film about strawbale building: "Houses of straw – Part 2"

Collaboration for large groups

There is a dialogue taking place over on Transition Culture [https://transitionculture.org/2009/09/11/why-we-need-formal-agreements-for-national-transition-hubs/] , about how Transition hubs relate to the UK network which started this whole Transition idea. If an opportunity arose, to rewrite this MoU collaboratively, we would need a tool which can manage the

Biosphere Home Farming from Philips designers

See larger image here. [https://api.ning.com/files/MpSRpEHITCNAANYpqA8IBLP-fhkajigh1DLQJ*Mh2stYrPWIo5FIsVBKvw64eNt49TwbYzBu9NNHiSy7ZNoSV-1ikpDRCQOB/food2_hr.jpg] by Clive van Heerden, August 6, 2009 Looking into the economics and politics of rising food prices and theories about impending food shortages led us to create the “food farm” to test peoples sensitivity to the

The revival of homegrown urban agriculture

Commentary from Sam Rose: “Not only is urban agriculture an emerging movement for individuals, it is also being pursued as part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy throughout the midwest. Some examples include: * https://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage Sweetwater organics Aquaponics fishfarming in Milwaukee WI * self sustaining urban food

Rooftop Farms, a 6,000 square foot organic vegetable farm in Brooklyn, New York.

From Brooklyn Supper blog [https://www.brooklynsupper.blogspot.com/2009/07/rooftop-farms-brooklyn.html]. Photo by Elizabeth Stark ©2008-2009. All rights reserved. See larger image here at Brooklyn Supper. [https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lx_oVvv15WQ/SmUJ4p5twLI/AAAAAAAABpQ/kuKOueyzbp4/s1600-h/DSC_0008.JPG] This is a roof of a warehouse in

Capitalism – A love story

Go Michael! Michael Moore does it again. He’s like the little boy who dares to tell us “the emperor is wearing no clothes”. “It’s a crime story. But it’s also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off

The man who planted trees

The power of one man to transform a desert into a lush and verdant land. Shepherd Elzard Bouffier lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet. After the death of his wife and child, he chooses to devote the rest of his life to a

Growing Grains at City Farmer

This year, Maria experimented to see if she could grow wheat, flax and quinoa at our Vancouver Compost Garden, and she succeeded. The wheat and flax were purchased from a local seed company, Salt Spring Seeds. The wheat varieties are named Red Fife, Marquis, Kamut and Blue Tinge Ethiopian. The

200 Urban Farms in Havana

Havana relies on 200 urban farms known as organoponicos The vegetable gardeners of Havana By Sarah Murch BBC Two’s Future of Food August 2009 Climate change, drought, population growth – they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilisers is also highly

Pulling the wool from over our eyes

On August 12th at 1pm, hundreds of New Zealanders paused for five minutes with woolly hats over their eyes. We then lifted our hats together, showing that we will not have the wool pulled over our eyes about the possibilities for real action on climate change. Scientists say that an

The Edible Schoolyard Book

At a time when our Enviro Schools programe is being challenged by funding cuts, here is some inspiration to show what is possible. Do we need funding to do this, or can we self-organise and bring this sort of wisdom to our local schools, ourselves? This video was created by

King Corn (2007)

[https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WfUkkzprTKM/SoVFfDe7LyI/AAAAAAAACiE/sC4kV4Q2PWg/s1600-h/cornposter1.jpg] King Corn (2007) King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on

A 'new' currency

In an imploding global economy, we are being challenged to imagine different ways of being and ‘new’ structures and means of exchange, in order to meet our essential human needs within society. If you are struggling to imagine how things could be different, take a breath, sit back, relax and

Lots of Transition TV

If you like a little video inspiration from time to time, here are two great sources of content from the Transition field. There are lots more, but these will keep you going for a while. The NSW Transition website [https://transition.org.au] has a range of well organised videos.

A Farm for the Future

A Farm for the Future

This documentary from the BBC is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen on TV for a long time. Highly recommended. Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature