tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277528672012-04-16T01:16:17.816+01:00The BlueGreenEarth / An Talmh Glas collective set up the <a href="http://www.bluegreenearth.com">bluegreenearth</a> website 6 weeks before 9/11 to discuss social ecology, via anarchism and the left. In late 2005 we set up a new venture, the <a href="http://www.europeansocialecologyinstitute.org">European Social Ecology Institute</a>. This blog hopes to take up some of the issues raised by these sites.Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-90505445619076996202012-03-23T12:41:00.002Z2012-03-23T12:43:31.120Z

a quick reminder of why we've a tory mp in Hastings: IDIOCY! Rudd, Amber       Con        20468   41% Foster, Michael    Lab        18475  37.01% Perry, Nick           Lib Dem 7825    15.68% Our system of FPTP is corrupt and whoever you vote for, the establishment wins. (PR? no thanks, says Amber - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/policy.php?id=1084) Meanwhile, we're criticised if we vote '

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Sun continues to set on feed-in tariffs as plans for cuts are laid out17 February 2012 http://www.sustainablegov.co.uk/central-government/energy-and-climate-change/the-sun-continues-to-set-on-feed-in-tariffs-as-future-plans-for-reductions-are-laid-out Solar feed-in tariffs have been the environmental hot topic these past few months, but on February 9 the final terms were set in stone.

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here's hoping!;-) yet: let's not get complacent, there's still a recession, a global one, so I for one _don't_ think this tide has turned http://www.sustainablegov.co.uk/education/faith-schools-could-be-at-risk-as-secularism-is-back-on-the-agenda Faith schools could be at risk as secularism is back on the agenda21 February 2012It might seem as if religion is losing some of its relevance in

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This may focus on NZ, but applies, one way or another, to the globe... "It's a bit like paying all the bills with a credit card and pretending all is well with the home budget. Healthy rivers, lakes and soils are our natural capital. But we are running them down in a mad rush, ignoring the fact that we have long since exceeded the limits. Our ecological capital credit card is maxed

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http://www.corbettreport.com/faking-it-how-the-media-manipulates-the-world-into-war/ Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War Posted by Corbett Podcast: http://youtu.be/ofrf2ZEEQtE by James Corbett grtv.ca 2 January, 2012 As the drums of war begin to beat once again in Iran, Syria, the South China Sea, and other potential hotspots and flashpoints around the globe, concerned

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http://m.inhabitots.com/13-year-old-makes-solar-breakthrough-based-on-the-fibonacci-sequence/ 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Breakthrough Based on the Fibonacci Sequence! by Molly Cotter, 08/19/11 Here at Inhabitots we love seeing the creative things that bright young minds come up with -- and we were incredibly impressed to hear that a 13-year-old boy recently came up with a breakthrough discovery

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[Call For Entries] Deadline Approaching for Big Sky International Pitch with Top Industry Reps ---------- Big Sky Documentary Film Festival will host an International Pitch Session with Top Industry Reps including Diane Weyermann (Participant Media) Yance Ford (POV The American Documentary) and Lois Vossen (ITVS/Independent Lens). The third annual Big Sky International Documentary Pitch

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http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/809/1/For a happy natural new year by Jan Lundberg   23 December 2011This report includes the 90 Percent Reduction guidelines for climate protection.Seen on the streets of Santa Cruz while biking on the first day of the new solar year:• A confused plum tree in nearly full flower, thanks to the unusually sunny and dry December.• Three armed guards

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http://libcom.org/blog/us-warplane-sabotaged-shannon-airport-28122011 US warplane sabotaged at Shannon airport Submitted by working class s... on Dec 28 2011 19:16 An anonymous group has subverted security at Shannon airport in Ireland, and damaged an American military aeroplane. They have issued a communique outlining their actions, which is reproduced here. An unnamed group has claimed

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http://new-compass.net/articles/conspiracism-and-violence   Conspiracism and Violence By Kjetil B. Simonsen Image of bombing of government headquarters in Oslo July 22nd Do the terrorist organization Al Qaeda and Anders Behring Breivik – the perpetrator behind the terrorist attack on the government headquarters in Oslo and the massacre at Utøya that killed 77 people on July

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A Taste of People PowerBy Michael Strom and Michael Albert  Thursday, November 10, 2011 Albert: How would you characterize the political commitments of the people most often at OWS? Like everything at Occupy Wall Street, the political commitments of the occupiers resist any kind of neat or simple description. You have folks who've been there 24/7 for days with no

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The Politics of Occupation: Anti-Authoritarianism and Direct Democracy by members of Parasol Climate Collective and The Institute for Anarchist Studies     Perspectives 2011 occupyPDX.jpg INTRODUCTION Walking through the camp of Occupy Portland, it is hard to believe it has only been a few weeks since it began. The transformation of the space is nothing short of miraculous: from a few

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Occupy to Self ManageOctober 25, 2011 By Michael Albert Michael Albert's ZSpace Page I have yet to see my nearest large occupation, Boston, or the precursor of all U.S. occupations, Wall Street. Instead, I have been on the road for the past six weeks in Thesselonika and Athens Greece; Istanbul and

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Occupy Wall Street, the Trade Union Movement and the Fight to Stop the Cuts and Concessions The Organizer Tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of people have taken to the streets over the past four weeks across the United States as part of an Occupy Wall Street movement to protest the intolerable conditions of massive unemployment, growing inequality, rampant home foreclosures

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Occupy Wall Street: Beyond the RhetoricMatthew FlisfederOne of the distinguishing features of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is its apparent lack of central leadership. Not only does the movement seem leaderless; it does not appear to be organized around any clearly defined ‘demands.’ This has been perceived as something quite positive for participants and supporters of the movement, while

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On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economyDavid Korowicz The systems on which we rely for our financial transactions, food, fuel and livelihoods are so inter-dependent that they are better regarded as facets of a single global system. Maintaining and operating this global system requires a lot of energy and, because the fixed costs of operating it are high, it

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Murray Bookchin: What is Social Ecology? This article was originally published in Michael Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993) and has been slightly revised for publication here. What defines social ecology as social is its recognition of the often-overlooked fact that nearly all our

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ImagineOn failing to see what's happening all around usby Derrick JensenPublished in the September/October 2011 issue of Orion magazine Art: Chris Jordan ONE OF THE (many) ways this culture is killing the planet is through a lack of imagination. I’ve been thinking about this a lot in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, and especially in light of three pretty typical responses I’ve

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The biggest lie in British politics Posted by Johann Hari British politics today is dominated by a lie. This lie is making it significantly more likely you will lose your job, your business, or your home. The lie gives a false explanation for how we came to be in this crisis, and prescribes a medicine that will worsen our disease. Yet it is hardly being challenged. Here’s the lie. We are in a

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An Evening About... Guerrilla Gardening...with Chris & Jan by Tim Barton "The power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did murder their fellow creatures, men, and after plunder or steal away their land, and left this land successively to you, their children. And therefore, though you did not kill or thieve, yet you hold

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http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/05/world-after-abundance.html The World After Abundance It has been nearly four decades now since the limits to industrial civilization’s trajectory of limitless material growth on a limited planet have been clearly visible on the horizon of our future. Over that time, a remarkable paradox has unfolded. The closer we get to the limits to growth,

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Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/19/evolution-darwin-natural-selection-genes-wrong So, let's get this straight: "the absolutely simple version of natural selection begins to look questionable" "the popular understanding of evolution might need revising" "there was no reason, he [Dawin] said, to assume that natural selection

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Editorial: A Reinvigorated Cause http://www.communalism.net/ Eirik Eiglad (a founder of the Communalism journal and a long time member of the Scandinavian social ecology organization Demokratisk Alternativ. Contact him at eirik@communalism.net) for permission to run this editorial column from the first issue, both here and on the BlueGreenEarth & SocialEcologyInstitute(Europe) websites.

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From Eirik & Co. a new venture: http://www.communalism.net/ Communalism - A Social Ecology Journal Current Issue  Building ecological cities It will be impossible to mitigate climate change without transforming our cities, writes Jonathan Korsár . He advances a program for self-reliance, decentralization of energy, regionalization of the economy, new communications and direct democracy.

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Colin Ward, 1924–2010 Went into Housman's, Kings Cross on Thursday.It had a window of Colin Ward books and I said to my friend "Oh no, I wonder if he has died, he was getting on", but didn't twig that he actually had until a message from AK Press on facebook yesterday said it was so... End of an era - Colin was a decent old school european anarchist with down-to-earth engaged community oriented

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