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Occupy Vancouver
We, the Ninety-Nine Percent, come together with our diverse experiences to transform the unequal, unfair, and growing disparity in the distribution of power and wealth in our city and around the globe. We challenge corporate greed, corruption, and the collusion between corporate power and government. We oppose systemic inequality, militarization, environmental destruction, and the erosion of civil liberties and human rights. We seek economic security, genuine equality, and the protection of…
ContinueAdded by David Allan on October 14, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Park(ing) day
PARK(ing) Day: Reclaiming Our Streets from Our Cars
by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
On Friday activists and artists will be celebrating PARK(ing) Day in hundreds of cities around the world.
Begun in San Francisco six years ago the aim of the annual event is “to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “‘PARK(ing)’ spaces: temporary public places.” Organizers generally add benches or fake grass to pieces of public property usually taken up by a private car.… Continue
by Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
On Friday activists and artists will be celebrating PARK(ing) Day in hundreds of cities around the world.
Begun in San Francisco six years ago the aim of the annual event is “to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “‘PARK(ing)’ spaces: temporary public places.” Organizers generally add benches or fake grass to pieces of public property usually taken up by a private car.… Continue
Added by David Allan on September 15, 2011 at 6:57pm — No Comments
quote of the day
We are privileged to live at the most exciting moment of creative opportunity in the whole of the human experience. Now is the hour. We have the power to turn this world around for the sake of ourselves and our children for generations to come. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
--David Korten
--David Korten
Added by David Allan on September 8, 2011 at 10:48am — No Comments
blog of note
"What we need to build is a new economy, Economy B, underneath the old one."
http://greateconomictransition.blogspot.com/
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Added by David Allan on September 2, 2011 at 1:09pm — No Comments
Canada Climate Criminal
Canada's PR Work for Tar Sands: Dirty, Crude and Oily
by Martin Lukacs
Another climate-related record will soon be broken, but it's not like those you've been hearing about: the heat waves, droughts and torrential floods setting calamitous precedents everywhere. For a change, mark down this next one as a sign of hope. It's that Washington will play host to the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in US history.
From 20 August to 3 September, a… Continue
by Martin Lukacs
Another climate-related record will soon be broken, but it's not like those you've been hearing about: the heat waves, droughts and torrential floods setting calamitous precedents everywhere. For a change, mark down this next one as a sign of hope. It's that Washington will play host to the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in US history.
From 20 August to 3 September, a… Continue
Added by David Allan on August 15, 2011 at 1:03pm — 1 Comment
"Joy and Resolve"
We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power. Right now, we have a big enough movement to win this battle; we just need to start acting like it. That’s the message that the climate movement really needs to internalize. On an individual level, it means making the commitment that we're going to be powerful and effective agents of change; on the movement level, it’s about making the decision that we're really going to win this battle.
--Tim DeChristopher, Feb… Continue
--Tim DeChristopher, Feb… Continue
Added by David Allan on July 27, 2011 at 2:27pm — No Comments
Always a good day for a ride
via Shareable.net
Why Cycling is More Patriotic Than Flag Waving
by Jay Walljasper
On the 4th of July my wife Julie and I were biking through downtown Minneapolis to see fireworks at the Mississippi River when someone shouted at us: “Take your clothes off.” We weren’t sure whether to be offended or flattered, until realizing we had pedaled into the midst of a naked bicycle ride.
Well not quite naked, but several hundred people on bikes were approaching us in… Continue
Why Cycling is More Patriotic Than Flag Waving
by Jay Walljasper
On the 4th of July my wife Julie and I were biking through downtown Minneapolis to see fireworks at the Mississippi River when someone shouted at us: “Take your clothes off.” We weren’t sure whether to be offended or flattered, until realizing we had pedaled into the midst of a naked bicycle ride.
Well not quite naked, but several hundred people on bikes were approaching us in… Continue
Added by David Allan on July 7, 2011 at 4:52pm — No Comments
The Stockholm Memorandum
The Stockholm Memorandum
Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability
3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium* on Global Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 May 2011
*The Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability was initiated in 2007 at Potsdam and continued by the St James’s Palace Symposium in spring 2009. This Symposium series unites Nobel Laureates of various disciplines, top-level representatives from politics and NGOs, and renowned experts on… Continue
Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability
3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium* on Global Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 May 2011
*The Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability was initiated in 2007 at Potsdam and continued by the St James’s Palace Symposium in spring 2009. This Symposium series unites Nobel Laureates of various disciplines, top-level representatives from politics and NGOs, and renowned experts on… Continue
Added by David Allan on May 25, 2011 at 12:21am — No Comments
The Four Dynamics of Building the Transition movement
http://transitioninaction.com/profiles/blogs/the-four-dynamics-of-building
The Context: Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent over many decades by marketing consultants and nonprofit fund raising consultants, university development and endowment departments and charitable trade associations to glean the four indisputable truths of reaching the customer, the donor or the joiner of a… Continue
The Context: Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent over many decades by marketing consultants and nonprofit fund raising consultants, university development and endowment departments and charitable trade associations to glean the four indisputable truths of reaching the customer, the donor or the joiner of a… Continue
Added by David Allan on May 9, 2011 at 9:24am — No Comments
Quote of the Day
(re. election results)
"Its like winning the bingo on the Titanic."
via thetyee.ca
Added by David Allan on May 4, 2011 at 5:25pm — No Comments
Resilience
The reality is that a bold new energy and climate change policy would inevitably result in dislocations in certain industries and upset long-established ways of life in many regions; in addition, it would lead to higher prices for basic commodities such as gas, home heating oil, and food.
In societies where there are strong social safety nets -- universal healthcare, universal preschool, strong support for new parents, significant investments in public transportation, and sustained…
ContinueAdded by David Allan on April 27, 2011 at 2:10pm — No Comments
Out to Sea
All interconnects,
Each touches every other.
I'm thinking that out here on the left end of Terminal City it's World Water Day, another self-appointed day of reckoning for an issue more pressing than one in three sixty five can possibly accommodate. Somewhat obligingly, water leaks from…
ContinueAdded by David Allan on March 22, 2011 at 3:48pm — No Comments
Interview with Michael Brownlee
http://countercurrents.org/smith210211.htm
follow the link for audio version.
Alex Smith : The Transition movement has spread from the United Kingdom to North America. Michael Brownlee is a gateway for many people discovering this new vision of living and community building. Brownlee co-founded Transition Colorado.
Michael, welcome to Radio Ecoshock.
Michael Brownlee : Thanks Alex, glad to be… Continue
follow the link for audio version.
Alex Smith : The Transition movement has spread from the United Kingdom to North America. Michael Brownlee is a gateway for many people discovering this new vision of living and community building. Brownlee co-founded Transition Colorado.
Michael, welcome to Radio Ecoshock.
Michael Brownlee : Thanks Alex, glad to be… Continue
Added by David Allan on February 21, 2011 at 4:06pm — No Comments
Today's Thought
We are not revolutionaries, we are solutionaries!
Added by David Allan on February 20, 2011 at 9:23am — No Comments
I Knew I was Lost
I Knew I was Lost
for voice and (chorus)
When country turned into marketplace... (I knew I was lost)
When community turned into corporation... (I knew...)
When citizens turned into consumers... (I knew...)
When friendship turned into networking... (I knew...)
When a handshake turned into C.V.,reference,
criminal check, credit check, blood test,
piss test, psych test, and most importantly
the aptitude test for theft, greed and deceit... (I… Continue
for voice and (chorus)
When country turned into marketplace... (I knew I was lost)
When community turned into corporation... (I knew...)
When citizens turned into consumers... (I knew...)
When friendship turned into networking... (I knew...)
When a handshake turned into C.V.,reference,
criminal check, credit check, blood test,
piss test, psych test, and most importantly
the aptitude test for theft, greed and deceit... (I… Continue
Added by David Allan on February 1, 2011 at 11:49am — No Comments
Canada Discovers Trickle-Up Economics
Canada Discovers Trickle-Up Economics
There was always skepticism about claims that, as the rich became richer, income would “trickle down” to others. What wasn’t perhaps foreseen was that the trickling would actually be in the other direction, and that it would be more of a torrent than a trickle.
But the evidence is now clear. Over the last three decades, the tables of the rich have overflowed, with…
Added by David Allan on December 28, 2010 at 3:17pm — No Comments
Today's Thought
"In the haunted house of life, Art is the only stair that doesn't squeak."
--Tom Robbins
Added by David Allan on December 18, 2010 at 2:50pm — No Comments
Assume
The operating assumption of 20th Century economics, contrary to what is taught about scarcity with regards to opportunity cost, is that there is an endless abundance of raw materials to feed the perpetual growth engine of the global economy. This assumption is blatantly wrong and we're starting to experience the consequences.
We live on a finite planet that contains a limited amount of renewable and non-renewable resources. No amount of ingenuity can increase the amount of land, rare… Continue
We live on a finite planet that contains a limited amount of renewable and non-renewable resources. No amount of ingenuity can increase the amount of land, rare… Continue
Added by David Allan on November 23, 2010 at 10:57am — 3 Comments
Natural Capital
"Natural capital can be defined as the benefits that accrue to human society from the different species of life that inhabit our world. Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What it fails to account for are all the "externalities"-- the services people regard as free goods: pollination services, flood protection, climate regulation, soil stabilization, carbon sequestration. Although immensely valuable,… Continue
Added by David Allan on November 16, 2010 at 2:43pm — 2 Comments
Koan
Standing inside a burning building
Counting pocket change
and wondering what to eat for lunch.
Counting pocket change
and wondering what to eat for lunch.
Added by David Allan on November 10, 2010 at 11:19am — No Comments
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