These are my links for September 29th to September 30th:

• Community Food Security Coalition - Programs - What does this 123-page publication include? * Overview of potential benefits and outcomes of an assessment * Tips for planning and organizing an assessment * Guidance on research methods and strategies * Methods for promoting community participation * Ideas for translating assessment findings into action * Case studies of nine Community Food Assessments
• South Australia Community Garden Kit - A guide to setting up and running a Community Garden
• starting a community garden-make a start - Planning and starting your community garden by Russ Grayson + Fiona Campbell
• littleBits - littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.
• Main Page - RAWorkbook - Assessing and Managing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: A Practitioner's Workbook
  The resilience workbook wiki is a collaborative project involving researchers and practitioners engaged in natural resource management who seek a holistic approach to managing social-ecological systems for long-term sustainbility. The workbook wiki is aimed at those who have experience applying resilience concepts to social-ecological systems and who want to share their knowledge by contributing to the on-going development of the resilience assessment guide.
• Resilience Alliance - The RA is a multidisciplinary research group that explores the dynamics of complex adaptive systems. The Resilience Alliance is a research organization comprised of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. The body of knowledge developed by the RA, encompasses key concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability and provides a foundation for sustainable development policy and practice.

See also:

• Links for September 5th to September 19th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th
• Links for September 20th to September 24th
• Links for April 9th to April 15th
• Links for May 20th to June 16th

These are my links for September 29th:

• The Invisible Circus -
• Network for the sustainable use of energy in water and wastewater treatment - The water that you drink and use to flush the toilet all needs to be treated to provide everyone with safe drinking water and to protect the environment. However, this treatment uses a large amount of energy (8,000 GWh) each year. This is equivalent to you running about 100 million tumble driers non-stop for a year.
• EnerNet, UK - EPSRC network - sustainable use of energy in water & wastewater systems - The Energy Network is designed to promote and inform the efficient use of energy in water and wastewater treatment, and identify opportunities for power generation within the water industry. It is a collaboration of academic institutions, the UK water industry, government departments and organisations involved in promoting improved energy management within industry.
• Promoting Energy Efficiency in Water and Wastewater Treatment | Water Energy Technology Team - The water and wastewater treatment sectors account for as much as 3% of electricity use in the U.S.
• The Interflush Water Saving Product - Welcome Page - Varyflush Ltd makes the Interflush™: A kit which fits on top of your WC siphon and connects to the front mounted flush handle.’The very definition of a sustainable product’Only flushes when the handle is held down, releasing the handle stops the flush (when pan is clear). Only uses exactly what water is needed. Any less and the toilet would need flushing again. That is why nothing can flush a toilet with less water.

See also:

• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 4th through September 7th
• Links for September 5th to September 19th
• Links for August 27th to September 5th
• Links for September 20th to September 24th

These are my links for September 20th to September 24th:

• Open Source Ecology:Site support - Open Source Ecology - Donate to this project. Now. It is the most inspiring project I know of and I assure you your money will go to very good use. Be the change. Help out!
• Root Capital :: Home - Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that is pioneering finance for grassroots businesses in the developing world. We work with artisan and farmer associations that build sustainable livelihoods and transform rural economies in poor, environmentally vulnerable places.
• media | venture | collective - Media Venture Collective is a fund of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, in partnership with a super-group of activist organizations, focused on aggregating tax-deductible donations and grants, small and large, from viewers like you into "program-related investments" in high-impact, public-interest media enterprises.
• Legal500 | Law Developments | The Use of Foundations in the Netherlands - A Dutch foundation (stichting) can be used in a number of international structures. These structures can roughly be divided in asset protection and charity structures. After having addressed the main legal and tax characteristics of a Dutch foundation, this article will focus on the main features of Dutch foundation structures.
• Building Democracy: Social Reporters Network - This project builds a network of social reporters who will train around 700 community activists in the use of social media. Using a wiki and tagging tools, freelance social reporters will develop a common resource bank and workshop content in order to deliver a training session for community activists who have themselves volunteered to become social reporters for their organisations.

See also:

• Links for August 27th to September 5th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 4th through September 7th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 20th through September 23rd
• Links for September 30th to October 1st
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th

These are my links for September 5th to September 19th:

• P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Exploring Resilience Communities with John Robb (1): definition - John Robb, master analyst of global guerilla warfare, is very pessimistic about the potential of the current global system to prevail. This means that he expects, like us, a strong trend towards relocalization. However, his vision is more radical since he expects a global breakdown. Hence, the need for a distributed network of resilient local communities, that can thrive amongst the chaos. However, it is not survivalism he is advocating, but local communities connected with global tinkering networks, supported by smart local and international network technology, and that are hyperproductive compared to the nation-state.
• Linux.com :: Installing Cinelerra on Ubuntu Studio - Cinelerra, one of the only serious video editing and compositing tools available for Linux, can cause frustration for users trying to install it on Ubuntu Studio. Fortunately, after several attempts, I found a way to install it easily.
• SPIN-Farming - There's a new way to farm. It's called SPIN, and it is causing people to re-think not only how to farm, but what it means to be a farmer today.
• Bristol Food Hub - Healthy Food for People and Planet - Bristol Food Hub is a small not-for-profit organisation working to improve the health and wellbeing of both people and the planet by motivating and empowering communities around healthy and sustainable food. We think food is amazing and has the power to enrich people’s lives by bringing communities together to discover how much fun growing, cooking and celebrating food is.
• Green Plug - Universal Power Adapter - DC Power Converter & Charger - One World. One Plug. - Green Plug is the first developer of digital technology that enables real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources. The company develops and markets embeddable power supply technology to consumer electronics (CE) and power supply companies.

See also:

• Links for September 29th
• Links for August 27th to September 5th
• Links for May 20th to June 16th
• Links for September 30th to October 1st
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th

A while ago a couple of peace activists who broke into a military airfield to damage B52 bombers argued they were preventing a greater crime and won their case (see http://www.b52two.org/ for the story).

At the time I wondered “what if you used a similar defense for an action to prevent climate change”?

Well, that has now happened and the jury is out, damaging property to prevent climate change is legal:

Kingsnorth trial: Coal protesters cleared of criminal damage to chimney
The trial of the six Greenpeace UK activists was the first case in which acting to prevent climate change causing damage to property formed part of a ‘lawful excuse’ defence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/10/activists.carbonemissions

Previous victories where environmental activists have been found not guilty:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/10/activists.kingsnorthclimatecamp1

Is preventing climate change a valid defence? VOTE NOW:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/poll/2008/sep/11/climatechange.kingsnorthclimatecamp

On a more sober note, read Climate Code Red:
http://www.climatecodered.net/

Enjoy!

Josef.

See also:

• Runaway Climate Change
• Commons Creation meeting
• The Carbon “Offset” Con
• Transition Towns
• Transition Handbook

These are my links for August 27th to September 5th:

• Open-Mesh Wireless Network | Affordable Wireless Solution | Open-Source / Ad Free - Now it is fast, easy and inexpensive to share an internet connection with neighbors in your apartment complex or extend wireless coverage throughout your home. Just plug one of these tiny (about the size of a pack of cards) routers into an existing internet connection and place additional units nearby to extend your internet range.
• WebHome < Main < Reprap - Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.
• The Multimachine | OpenSourceMachine.org - The MultiMachine, a humanitarian, open source machine tool project for developing countries Benefits The MultiMachine all-purpose machine tool that can be built by a semi-skilled mechanic with just common hand tools. For machine construction, electricity can be replaced with "elbow grease" and the necessary material can come from discarded vehicle parts. What can the MultiMachine be used for in developing countries?
• riseup.net - This site is powered by Crabgrass, a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. The long term goal is to provide the technical tools to facilitate active, confederal, and directly democratic social change networks. more »
• World Film Collective - Welcome to World Film Collective - World Film Collective invites professionals in the film industry to teach workshops to young people in marginalised and deprived areas of the world. Using mobile phones and free editing software, our workshops transfer sustainable skills which give a voice to some of the most excluded young people in the world.

See also:

• Links for June 17th to August 26th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 4th through September 7th
• Links for December 1st to December 8th
• Links for September 20th to September 24th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 28th through August 29th

Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference - Rough cut from 2nd camera.

See also http://www.globalswadeshi.net and http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/ for more great stuff

See also:

• Peer Trust Network, OSE and More!
• Deserting the Art Bunker by John Jordan
• Some of my favourite websites
• Reclaim Love 5!
• Enterprising Communities Conference 2006