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  • 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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  • 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
    Home Buy Local Learn More What Can You Do Buy Fresh Buy Local About

    We can help you connect with your local food system, just send Bob an e-mail with your request and we will try to help a

  • 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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With free permaculture courses, a community garden, recording studio, rehearsal space and much more, Spike is an exemplay example of volunteer community based regeneration. It is an important local resource.

If you haven’t already done so, please sign the petition to help Save The Spike!

If you have already signed the petition, please forward it on to your (e.g. myface) friends and networks.

For an idea of how great this space is check out the pictures on their myspace homepage:
http://www.myspace.com/spikesurplus

Also, be sure to listen to SIGN THE PETITION track by David J, its great stuff! :)

(recorded live at a recent Sunday Sounds event at Spike)

And check these youtube videos for an idea of the great events that have taken place at Spike:

Malalma at recent Manu Chao night

Spike Halloween 2007

Again, PLEASE sign the petition, this is one of London’s most important spaces.
http://www.petitiononline.com/paulk/petition.html

Many thanks in advance,

Josef.

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  • 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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  • 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
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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 yet more convincing?

Watch these videos! :)

Caroline Lucas Launches The Transition Handbook

Rob Hopkins’ on the Transition Handbook

Read these reviews…

Enjoy!

Josef.

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  • 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
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