Links for June 16th to June 17th

Posted on June 17 by Josef

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These are my links for June 16th to June 17th:

  • Peak oil primer and links - A good round up page on Peak Oil with a quality selection of links
  • Coed Hills Rural Arts Space - The whole site is run on alternative energy, from high-tech wind turbines and biomass underfloor heaters, to solar showers made out of scrap radiators. With its permaculture gardens, the place is an inspiration for the budding and more experienced eco-con
  • Future Scenarios - The simultaneous onset of climate change and the peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented challenges for human civilisation. Global oil peak has the potential to shake if not destroy the foundations of global industrial economy and culture. Cl
  • Venezuela: a revolution on film - A series of screening (not just about Venezuela) that seeks to deepen the understanding of the Bolivarian revolutionary process, putting it within its wider historical, social and political context through the screening and debate of some cinematographic
  • Harnessing sunlight on the cheap: MIT student project aims to develop cost-efficient solar power - For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech–and that's the point. A team of students have designed a 12-foot-square mirrored dish capable of concentrating sunlight by a factor of 1,000
  • Solar Times - A quarterly newspaper all about energy and sustainability



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Links for May 20th to June 16th

Posted on June 16 by Josef

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These are my links for May 20th to June 16th:

  • The Sunny Side of Cooking - The Sunny Side of Cooking: Solar cooking and other ecologically friendly cooking methods for the 21st century By Lisa Rayner 1st edition copyright (c) 2007 $14.95 + $3 shipping
  • Food Routes - Where Does Your Food Come From
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  • Lovavores - LOCAVORE is the 2007 Word of the Year for the Oxford American Dictionary!! - A group of concerned culinary adventurers who are making an effort to eat only foods grown or harvested within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco for an entire month. We recognize that the choices we make about what foods we choose to eat are important po
  • Sustainable Table - Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers of food-related issues and works to build community through food
  • Vegetable Research and Information Center - Lots of useful research into different vegetables.
  • No quick fix for escalating food prices, Alistair Darling told - Times Online - There are no quick fixes to the food price inflation sweeping across the high street, Alistair Darling was warned yesterday, as a top-level report said that prices could remain at record levels for the next decade.
  • The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » What is the Global Swadeshi Network? - The Global Swadeshi Network is a new community of people working together on various aspects of personal freedom and economic or technical self-reliance. Swadeshi is Gandhi’s term for economic self reliance. In his time, the international trade in cloth
  • Espra — Alpha » The Birth of the New Commons - Espra can be thought of as Web 4.0 — a web 4 the people and by the people. The Commons of the 21st century. Built and owned by the people. A social, economic and technological platform. A weapon of mass construction.



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Links for May 20th

Posted on May 20 by Josef

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These are my links for May 20th:

  • Plexnet » A Set of Open Web Standards - The Plexnet is a set of open web standards that will hopefully allow for richer and more interoperable applications to be developed over the Open Web.
  • Burnstation - Free Audio Culture !! - BURN STATION is a mobile copying station which - as it travels through suburban spaces - supports the free distribution music and audio. It is software as well as a local network. But above all BURN STATION is a social event which congregates people toget
  • Global Swadeshi - The collected thought of the wisest people in the world: the people who choose to act now, and not wait for later.
  • Taser stun guns for every police officer - Telegraph - Tasers could be issued to all police officers after a trial found that they deterred violent criminals, it was disclosed today. The 50,000-volt stun guns, introduced to Britain in 2003, are mainly used by firearms officers at present. But a 12-month exper
  • Bicycle Friendster - connecting people in the world who love bike
  • FSE/ESF Forum social européen/European Social Forum - - The European Social Forum (ESF) is an open space where civil society groups and movements opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a society centered on the human person, come togeth
  • Welcome to OpenESF! - OpenESF is a platform for social activism provided by the European Social Forum. OpenESF is the simple way to bring groups together, promote your cause, make plans, get things done and make another world possible.



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