• Wild Swimming - Places to swim in rivers, lakes and waterfalls - On a hot summer day, what could be more refreshing than slipping into the cool, clear waters of a secret lake? And what could be more exciting than plunging into a hidden waterfall? Britain’s freshwater rivers, lakes and waterfalls are cleaner, safer an
• UKFast demands North West addresses energy crisis - Internet hosting firm UKFast is championing the cause to highlight the energy problems facing North West business. The dedicated server provider is one of the fastest growing firms in the Manchester area but is also a major energy user and current power d
• A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema - A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members
• ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: organic farming, sustainable ag, publications, newsletters - Looking for the latest in sustainable agriculture and organic farming news, events and funding opportunities? We feature all that, plus in-depth publications on production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing, organi
• Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources - One of the best pages on Permaculture. "This publication offers definitions and descriptions of permaculture and its central principles. It offers listings of resources and publications on permaculture in the United States, Australia, and worldwide."

• Permaculture
• Links for May 6th to May 9th
• The Future of Food
• Links for April 24th
• Supermarket Secrets

• Show in a Box » Your show. Your site. Your style. - Show In A Box is a community of video creators and website developers who are helping each other use WordPress to better show off our videos.
• Welcome to PlayaTech - Playatech is pleased to offer Black Rock City's most advanced state-of-the-art, low-tech, planet-friendly camp furnishings for the radically self-reliant. The pieces all slot together for instant assembly using no metal fasteners, disassemble flat for eas
• Tightening of immigration laws means farmers face losing 50,000 tonnes of fruit - News, Food & Drink - The Independent - Millions of pounds worth of soft fruit and vegetables are likely to be left to rot in fields this summer because of a shortage of foreign pickers caused by the falling value of the pound and new restrictions on the number of seasonal labourers allowed to
• Number Four - A central London venue for people who share a desire for positive social and environmental change
• Green Central - Times Online - WBLG: The Top 50 Eco Blogs - Green Central has spent countless hours, days and months scouring the web to bring to you our top 50 blogs.

• Links for May 9th to May 13th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 12th through November 13th
• Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July
• Runaway Climate Change
• Links for May 6th to May 9th

• A-Z of Bushcraft & Survival videos - During an A-Z of Bushcraft videos you will learn to live comfortably in the natural environment with the minimum of modern equipment. When the oil runs out- how will we live with nature? Watch this full series of 5 minute videos and please enjoy.
• Bikeworks - Community Cycle Centre - Tower Hamlets East London - Bikeworks is a social enterprise in Tower Hamlets East London, that offers a range of organisational and public cycle services including; cycle training courses, repairs, bike re-cycling, travel planning and sales of new & second hand bikes.
• DorkCamp08 - DorkbotLondon - people doing strange things with a fair amount of electricity DorkCamp06 and DorkCamp07 went well, lets do it again. 29th August - 1st September 2008, Wapsbourne Manor Location (tbc)
• Permaculture Principles - Permaculture Flower - The purpose of this website is to communicate the essence of permaculture simply and clearly, and to get you thinking about how it can apply to your own life.
• WordPress › Viper’s Plugins Used « WordPress Plugins - Ever want to show your readers what plugins you have enabled on your site? If so, this plugin is for you. It allows you to list out all activated plugins in a table or unordered list as well as customize their descriptions.
• Nonprofit Internet Resources | matslats.net - These pages have been abstracted from consultancies with properly funded NGOs in Geneva, and are published here to enable other organisations to benefit.
• Hiring a Drupal site developer | drupal.org - When hiring a Drupal site developer it's important to understand what you need and where you can find the service provider with that set of skills. There are four sections to this document: Define the Scope of the Project, Define the Budget for the Projec
• Narco News: The Guardian Covers (Up) Colombia’s Reality - London’s “Left Leaning” Newspaper Props Up Latin America’s Most Authoritarian Government

• Links for May 6th to May 9th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 26th
• Drupal for web2.0 / briefing 25th October - workshops 1st and 7th November
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 9th through October 10th
• Links for May 9th to May 13th

The Transition Handbook

Rob Hopkins. Green Books 2008, Paperback, 224 pages, £12.95

I really can’t recommend this book highly enough, but if you need more convincing…

“a must-read labelled, ‘immediate’ “ - Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid

“The Transition Handbook will come to be seen as one of the seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age” - Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association

“There is no more important book than this one for any community seeking to change toward ecological sustainability” - Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on Globalization

“There is no better call to action than this book, and no better guide to the hands-on creation of a liveable future” - Dr Stephan Harding, co-ordinator of the MSc Holistic Science at Schumacher College

“This is much more than just a book. It is a manual for a movement. And not just any movement, but one which could prove to be the most important social force humanity has ever seen” - Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees

“The Transition movement is the best news there’s been for a long time and this manual is a goldmine of inspiration to get you started” - New Internationalist

“The most important book we have yet published” - John Elford, Green Books (publishers of LOTS of VERY good books)

“The book succeeds brilliantly at every level… Seriously, this is one of the most important books in the sustainability field to appear in this decade” - Robert Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science at the University of Glamorgan and Co-Director, The Green College

“The newly published Transition Handbook is so important that I am tempted just to confine this review to five simple words ‘You must read this book!’” - Richard Barnett, editor of Ethical Pulse (Ethical Junction’s newletter)

Need more convincing?

What these videos!

Caroline Lucas Launches The Transition Handbook

Rob Hopkins’ on the Transition Handbook

Read these reviews…

• A Review of The Transition Handbook by Graham Strouts of Zone5.org
• The Transition Handbook Reviewed in ‘The Guardian’
• Review of Transition Handbook from New Internationalist magazine
• Another Review of The Transition Handbook by Richard Barnett, editor of Ethical Pulse
• Patrick Whitefield Reviews The Transition Handbook

Enjoy!

Josef.

• Transition Handbook
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 2nd through January 13th
• Money as Debt
• Money Books
• Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July

• mbauwens’ bookmarks tagged with “P2P-Languages” on del.icio.us - useful for translation services and stuff
• The Evolution of Money: - There is a growing group of people working to better the ways we use money and exchange resources…building the systems that will allow all the other dreamers and doers to make our world better. Join me as I take a look at The Evolution of Money.
• 7digital | UK’s leading digital media delivery company - This is who does War Child Music's online shop. "7digital is the UK’s leading digital media delivery company, catering for record companies, artists, film and TV companies as well as other digital media owners throughout the world."
• Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music - As of today (January 23rd, 2008), you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
• Permaculture Activist - In North America's leading (& the world's longest-lived) permaculture periodical you'll find information about permaculture design, edible landscaping, bioregionalism, ecovillage design, aquaculture, natural building, earthworks, forestry, soils, agricult

• Links for April 24th
• Permaculture
• Unmissable: Sunday Sounds album launch party on July 23rd
• Links for April 22nd
• Drupal for web2.0 / briefing 25th October - workshops 1st and 7th November

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Ubuntu ‘reaping Linux dividend’ - The public perception of open source software is changing fast, said Mark Shuttleworth, who leads distribution of the Ubuntu operating system (OS). A new version of Ubuntu, a version of the Linux OS, is released on Thursday.
• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Opposition victorious in Paraguay - E-mail this to a friend Printable version Opposition victorious in Paraguay Opposition supporters celebrate on the streets Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo has won Paraguay's presidential election, ending more than six decades of rule by the Col
• Permaculture Trading Post - The Permaculture Trading Post was created to support the material, marketing, and information needs of the North American Permaculture community of students, teachers, and designers as well as gardeners, farmers, landscapers, and webworkers everywhere.
• Keith’s Permaculture Store - Lots of great permaculture and related books
• Loco2 low carbon travel » Home - Loco2 is the new website attempting to put the mental in environmental. Our mission is to make low carbon travel fun, accessible, and ultimately cheaper…
• Money: Print your Own! YES! magazine - A classic edition of YES! magazine with loads of fantastic articles about money
• Librerias Paradigma :: Libros :: Argentina - Buy lots of good book in Spanish from this excellent Argentinian bookshop
• TerraTRC - The Trade Reference Currency (TRC) TM is a new currency privately issued by the TRC Alliance, with a built-in circulation incentive that could play a significant role in getting the world out of recession. Its unit of account is the Terra. It would system

• Links for April 22nd
• Links for April 24th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 2nd through January 13th
• The Carbon “Offset” Con
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 12th through November 13th

• Otra Economía - Este Blog está destinado a los comentarios acerca de los textos publicados en la Revista Otra Economía de la Red de Investigadores de la RILESS, www.riless.org/otraeconomia, que tendrá su primera edición publicada en este mes en el II Encuentro Intern
• Monedas Complementarias en España wiki - Complementary Currencies in Spain Wiki - Bienvenid@ a la web interactiva de Monedas Complementarias en España. Complementary Currencies in Spain wiki
• YES! Magazine Economies / Work / Globalization Articles - YES! Magazine Economies / Work / Globalization Articles - great collection of things to read
• - History of Usury - List of Contents - Usury and the Church of England by the Rev. Henry Swabey (1916-1995)
• myBLOC.net - People from around the country are using MyBLOC as a tool for movement building. Explore the profiles, circles and organization sections to get new ideas about what you can do!
• Priyadi’s Place » Blog Archive » WordPress IP to Country Plugin - Wordpress IP to Country plugin. If I install this, then the excellent Amazon Machine Tags plugin will automagically create links to the relevant Amazon store based on where visitors to my site are based.
• Do Tank and the Democracy Design Workshop - The goal of the Virtual Company Project is to build online tools to help groups create and implement governance rules necessary for successful collaboration. The project is premised on the belief that the right graphical interfaces can translate the struc
• Contact Manager, Web Based CRM, Address Book for Small Business: Highrise - Track contacts, leads, customers, vendors, and others with Highrise (from 37signals, the basecamp dudes)
• SourceForge.net: WiserPlatform - WiserPlatform is PHP5, MySQL 4+ web application written with Symfony. It can be used to create web sites that manage complex relationships between different entity types. It includes built-in social networking and groupware functionality.
• AFP: Russian oil production has peaked: Lukoil executive - Russian oil production peaked last year, the vice-president of Lukoil, the country's second largest oil group, said in an interview published Tuesday. Speaking to the Financial Times, Leonid Fedun said Russia's oil production of 10 million barrels a day w

• Links for April 15th to April 21st
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 26th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 28th through August 29th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 30th through November 8th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 20th through September 23rd

He is a fascinating chap, check out his CV (.pdf).

In the first OpenCoin meeting he said (in a strong Scottish accent):

“I think there is going to be a global currency. I call it the Global. This will either be a top-down currency from the IMF and World Bank, like existing SDRs (Special Drawing Rights), or a bottom-up, grassroots initiative, like what you are doing, which is much more exciting”

He went on to say:

“either you guys are going to be billionaires, or its fines and jail”.

And:

“I can defend you in court, I’ve not been to court for a while now, and then I can write a book about it”

Anyway, in his capacity as Professor in International Financial Law George teaches a popular course in Banking Law. He gives his students an introductory reading list which includes titles by authors such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Naomi Klein. I spotted some of these titles on his bookshelf in his office and so asked for him to send me his list of books (.pdf), which he kindly did.

Considering it is an introductory reading list for a course in Banking Law there are a surprising and refreshing amount of relatively radical titles in the list. I was surprised however that none of my favourite money books were included.

So George, how about adding some (or all!) of these titles to your list?

Money

Thomas Greco. Chelsea Green Pub Co 2001, Paperback, 320 pages, £10.12

You can download a pdf extract of this book here. See also author’s Beyond Money blog, his personal blog and website.

The Future of Money

B.A. Lietaer. Century 2002, Paperback, 384 pages, £10.99

Read an interview with Bernard Lietaer in YES! Magazine’s Summer ‘97 edition all about creating your own money. Also check out some key points from the book

The Little Money Book (Alastair Sawday’s Fragile Earth)

David Boyle. Alastair Sawday Publishing 2003, Paperback, 192 pages, £6.99

A great little book with links to lots of further reading and info.

The Money Changers

David Boyle (Editor). Earthscan Publications Ltd 2002, Hardcover, 240 pages, £20.00

Another great book from David Boyle, associate at the new economics foundation

The Grip of Death

Michael Rowbotham. Jon Carpenter 1998, Paperback, 336 pages, £18.00

Grip of Death is the literal translation of Mortgage. Read the first chapter here

The Ecology of Money

Richard Douthwaite. Green Books 2000, Paperback, 78 pages, £5.00

Read this book online here

Healthy Money Healthy Planet

Deirdre Kent. Craig Potton Publishing 2005, Paperback, 320 pages, £21.95

Read a draft copy and critique of the book here and check out the author’s blog

The Politics of Money

Frances Hutchinson. Pluto Press 2002, Paperback, 256 pages, £18.99

A academic look at money from a marxist/ feminist perspective. Very well written.

A History of Money

Glyn Davies. University of Wales Press 2002, Paperback, 750 pages, £19.99

Check out Glyn’s excellent website on the same topic.

See the American Monetary Institute’s website for more details

See also:

• Money as Debt
• New American Currency

• Money Books
• Recipe for a New World Order?
• Money as Debt
• Links for April 22nd
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 2nd through January 13th

Here are some existing examples of the kind of projects we’re talking about:

Land
http://ecologicalland.coop/
http://openfarmtech.org/
http://www.energyfarms.net/
http://cityrepair.org/
http://thevillage.ie
http://lammas.org.uk/
http://www.gloucestershirelandforpeople.coop/
http://www.tlio.org.uk/
http://www.landroots.co.uk/
http://www.landforpeople.co.uk/
http://www.communitylandtrust.org.uk/
http://www.iceclt.org/
http://www.pathtofreedom.com/

Money
http://opencoin.org
https://ripplepay.com/
http://rootstock.org.uk/
http://labase.org/
http://openmoney.info/
http://www.damanhur.info/en/html/ArcMagazine.asp?IDCat=1&IDSottoCat=5
http://www.ekopia.findhorn.com/eko.html
http://www.saltspringdollars.com/welcome.htm
http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/totnespound/home
http://www.berkshares.org/
http://www.themoneyfix.org/index.php
http://www.targetedcurrencies.net/
http://www.complementarycurrency.org/

Media
http://submedia.tv
http://peakmoment.tv
http://energybulletin.net/
http://worldchanging.com/
http://makeinternettv.org/
http://indymedia.org
http://english.ohmynews.com/
http://www.yesmagazine.org/
http://www.permaculture-magazine.co.uk/
http://globalpublicmedia.com/
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/
http://www.undercurrents.org/index.htm
http://www.getmiro.com/
http://plumi.org
http://alpha.green.tv
http://www.bigpicture.tv/
http://showinabox.tv/
http://transmission.cc
http://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge
http://aswarmofangels.com/
http://democracynow.org/
http://www.projectcensored.org/
http://www.zmag.org/znet
http://www.mediaventure.org/
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/
http://www.ourvideo.org/toolkit/index.htm
http://www.alternet.org/

Enjoy!

Josef.

• Some of my favourite websites
• Housing Co-ops
• Links for April 24th
• The London Fund
• Inspiring Land, Money and Media Projects

• Permaculture Reflections: Top 10 Fuel Trees for Zone 5 and Above - I’ve decided to do some research into the best kinds of wood for providing heat. I went in search of the tree that would give off the highest amount of BTU’s per cord. It is this search that lead me to the information below that was provided by a stud
• UK Indymedia - Squatters Estate Agents Opens In London - As part of the Space Is The Place - Side Stepping The Property Ladder series of events taking place in various London autonomous spaces over the weekend of the 11th and 12th April, a squatters estate agents has been set up.
• Main Page - Howtopedia - english - HOWTOPEDIA is a collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies, i.e. technologies that require no complex machine, that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities for a sustainable and ecological future.
• Peak Oil - the theory that we may be at or near a peak level of oil production - while remaining controversial is at least now respectable. But is the continuing credit crash masking another inconvenient truth? Might banks now be experiencing the aftermat - %extended%
• Concentric Network Economy Consulting provides specialized services to the full range of organizations driving the network economy. From community-based organizations to commercial exchange systems, enterprise networks and clusters, regional and national - %extended%

• Links for April 9th to April 15th
• Links for April 15th to April 21st
• uniteddiversity update
• Convergence 13: Transition Strategies
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 30th through November 8th