tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277528672012-01-03T12:26:05.013ZThe 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.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-19724646567145220022012-01-03T12:26:00.000Z2012-01-03T12:26:05.020Z

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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Twilight of the Machines, by John Zerzan Publishers Blurb: The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilisation, mass society, modernity and technoculture - both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions. As John Zerzan writes, These dire

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http://io9.com/5031825/how-can-we-revamp-democracy-5-answers-from-science-fictionHow Can We Revamp Democracy? 5 Answers From Science Fiction Democracy's self-destruct mechanism has been activated! And the computer voice — which sounds like the drone of a thousand cable news anchors — is counting down to the end of our precious system of government. As the information age and the

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Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: Everyday Things to Help Solve Global Warmingby Eric Sorenson & The Staff of Sightline InstitutePaperback: 120 pagesPublisher: COUNTERPOINT; (Sierra Club Books)ISBN-10: 1578051452ISBN-13: 978-1578051458Orders:http://www.turnaround-psl.com/main/book_search.cfm?bookid=81287Blurb:What do a clothesline, a locally grown tomato and a microchip have in common? They're all

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Ecology: The moment of truth—an introduction By John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard Yorkhttp://links.org.au/node/518* * *The July-August 2008 (Volume 60, Number 3) edition of the influential US socialist journal Monthly Review is a special issue on ``Ecology: The Moment of Truth”, edited by Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster and Richard York. The issue

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Thomas M. Disch, 68; prolific science- fiction author By Jocelyn Y. Stewart Los Angeles Times Staff Writerhttp://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-disch8-2008jul08,0,1669524.storyJuly 8, 2008 Even in the genre of science fiction, writer Thomas M. Disch was considered unconventional.The strange new worlds he created were an odd mix: dark and horror-filled

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Does what it says on the tin, as they say...How to Talk to a Climate SkepticBelow is a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by: Stages of Denial, Scientific Topics, Types of Argument, and Levels of

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http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=713Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it's too late?By Dr. Steve Best"As ye sow, so shall ye reap…" Endless resource wars, globalization, privatization, profits over life, exploitation, raping the Earth, poisoning and irradiating the environment, exponentially criminal levels of unnecessary suffering caused by the concentration of

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http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/an-epidemic-of-extinctions-decimation-of-life-on-earth-829325.htmlAn epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth Species are dying out at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to a report published today – and human behaviour is to blame. Emily Dugan counts the cost Friday, 16 May 2008The world's species are

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Nice NYT piece on the legendary PKD. One of my favourite SF authors. We all have a different favourite title - mine has long been A Scanner Darkly (the movie was OK, but the book is quite definitely better), but the wonderful distillation of is ideas on Eye in the Sky is suberb too.'Even' his theologically inclined works are a treat, as the territory they explore is as much about inner space nd

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I've read the first two and second the recommendation.The others sound good, especially These American Lands.- TimFive Recommended Earth Day Readsfrom The Wilderness Society• The Sand County Almanac, (1949), by Aldo Leopold. Leopold’s astonishing portraits of the natural world marked a landmark in conservation writing.• Desert Solitaire, (1968), by Edward Abbey, brought Abbey acclaim as an avid

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So the UK Govt say we "need" millions of new homes. At the same time we "need" to reduce greenhouse emissions. Building and construction work and construction waste is a large chunk of the pollution from urban areas. The London eco-footprint has this as the largest single contribution. So a Thames Gateway mega-city plus an Olymic rape of the wetlands and meadows of Leytonstone adds up to a

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Our Story: the Rossport 5UK Book Launch this weekend Hi,I'm writing to let you know that one of the Rossport 5, Vincent McGrath, will be in London this weekend to launch their new book 'Our Story; the Rossport 5'.The first event will be the official media launch hosted at the Hammersmith Irish Centre, Blacks Rd on Friday evening (March 2nd 2007), details attached. On Saturday (March 3rd 2007)

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Long Shadows: Truth, Lies & Historyby Erna Paris first run on Bluegreenearth (go to Arts Review, then Archive 2001) 11.11.02 Erna Paris once gave a talk, in Toronto, entitled History, Memory and the Burden of Guilt. I think that this would make a better sub-title for this book, though the book is also about truth and lies. The history that Paris is concerned with is twentieth century genocide and

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This is an American venture. But today I went to a meeting in a recently built eco-house that is used for community events. The meeting was convened by Labour, but had representatives of all the major parties there, including the Greens, as well as other interested groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Hastings Environmental Network, plus of course members of the public. It was

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I am responding here to a post from myspace.com/carl_sagans_cosmos, of an article from the Humanist magazine (Spirited away: Some atheists start believing in anything after they give up believing in God, says Meera Nanda).The quote below sums up a strand of those who reject (in the UK) the Christian idea of God, and I assume that it fits for those from other religious (Meera talks about Hinduism,

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Publication of Our Story – the Rossport 5 in JanuaryNote from Rob Allen:For the first time the Rossport Five talk directly abouttheir experiences confronting themight of Shell Oil.There are vivid descriptions of the sense of siege felt inthe small village of Rossport asthe enormous Corrib gasproject was being prepared and developed. The men andtheirwives describe their frantic efforts to prevent

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Local-Global Organising - A Philosophical Argument from a Social Ecology Pespective by Tim Barton, with Rob Allen, from the BLUE CollectiveThe Making Civil Society conference takes place between the 4th and 7th of November, 2005, in Lancashire. The following is the basis for a workshop delivered by Tim Barton of the European Social Ecology Institute and Bluegreenearth, from work by Tim and by

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This post is of a review I wrote for the 25th issue of BlueGreenEarth, in 2002 (it is now archived in the Reviews section of the .us archive) . As Bliar's government is approaching election time again, I think it appropriate to revisit a book about one aspect of constitutional reform for the UK. The EU is also overdue for a re-democratising phase, de-fanging the Council of Ministers; re-launching

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The post below, forwarded from the yahoogroup World In Common, was sent on to me by a friend. I sent him a response, which I copy in below:--- In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldincommon/, Citizens of the World wrote:>> The Gaian theory is just that, a theory. It is a way of describing how the> world has evolved into a vast inter-related connection of life, all> balanced and working

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This post is a response to the Rod Liddle programe "The Trouble With Atheism" (aired 18th December, Channel 4), via the interesting blog averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com.All I saw was Liddle setting up paper tigers and knocking them down, with nary a dent in atheism itself - his Stalin argument was rubbish, his Darwin argument laughable, and exactly the kind of thing I expect from those who

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I have no plan to post lots of articles by others to my blog, but here's an exception, as I am something of a fan of 'dubstep'...!Before that, here is a list of my favorite tracks in the genre (and some heading into grime and other related sub-genres):Omen - FrontlineOmen - AphroditeAmit - True WarVex'd - Function (30hz remix)Vex'd - Candyfloss (Loefah remix)Vex'd - Bombardment of SaturnVex'd -

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Well, here are some musings on internal / structural logic and dynamics in systems, that I initially wrote in a mail to Paul Illich after he had forwarded some of a Marxmail thread that set me off! I have elaborated and expanded a little.See Marxism mailing list Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism The thread concerned was on the subject of whether "

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Press ReleaseFor immediate release‘Maya Anne Evans, Peace Protester, Risks Arrest Again’Contact: Maya Anne Evans 07973 484 202Maya Anne Evans, 26, of Hastings, the first person to be convicted under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) for reading out the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq, and the author of a new book ‘Naming the Dead - A Serious Crime’, is risking arrest

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Regarding the piece by Yergin in the Washington Post, It's Not the End Of the Oil Age - Technology and Higher Prices Drive a Supply Buildup, run July 2005.http://www.washingtonpost.comI saw this in a post to the bluegreenearth website's Yahoo Group, at groups.yahoo.com/group/bluegreenearth/, from regular contributor (sic) Paul Illich. It may not be bang up to date, but I believe it is

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MURRAY BOOKCHIN Jan 14, 1921 - Jul 30, 2006 I was deeply saddened by the news of Murray's death. I had known it was coming sooner or later. A few years ago Murray had had a serious heart-attack, and I knew his health had been delicate since. I had worried that I would not hear of his death, when it came, for a while. When it did come, I found I heard from several sources well within

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I begin this post with a comment from a yahoogroup on Venezuela, and the article that prompted it.Cuban economy looks healthier as Castro declines by Marc FrankPosted by: "Walter Lippmann"You would think, from the headline, that there's some kind of causalconnection between the improvement of Cuba's economy and the healthproblems of the island's Commander-in-Chief. ==============================

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The Dioxin WarTruth & Lies About a Perfect Poisonby Robert Allenreview by Tim Barton"We're failing to deal with dioxin not because of any lack of information about its dangers to human health, but because of political and economic considerations."- Dr Samuel Epstein, quoted in Greenpeace Magazine, 1991Rob Allen's book The Dioxin War, a kind of sequel / companion-piece to the earlier books, Guests

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This week's most hilarious and yet troubling (for the accusation of 'treason') story was that of Gorgeous George saying that Bliar's death by violence could be deemed morally justifiable. Here is the story as reported in The Times: Killing Blair 'morally justified' says Galloway http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2198530,00.html, May 26th THE assassination of Tony Blair by a

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Ecological Debt:The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nationsby Andrew Simmsreview by Tim BartonEcological Debt is a simple enough concept - the growth of Western capitalist consumerism has been built on resource use that is beyond the means of the land upon which Western states are built. Resources have had to be used from elsewhere to perpetuate growth. And many of these resources are not

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Maya Evansinterviewed by Tim BartonThe new Serious Organised Crime & Police Act, 2005 (SOCPA) rules compromise freedom of speech as anyone who wants to demonstrate within one kilometre of Parliament must apply for permission at least six days in advance or, apparently, if not "reasonably practicable" (though I have no idea what may exceptions qualify), twenty-four hours in advance. Maya Evans, at

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