31 August 2011

New Crux

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Dear Crux Followers You may have noticed the absence of Crux in your In Box for a couple of months. I've decided, for several reason...
05 June 2011

Cohousing Up Close in Colorado

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Reposted in full from the Urban Ecology Australia newsletter, May/June 2011 ' Cohousing communities exist in northern Europe, Canada, ...
04 June 2011

No Vacation Nation

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This must have hit a nerve - nearly four thousand comments on this post! Reposted in full from CNN , 23 May 2011 'Let's be blunt: If...
02 June 2011

Advertising Overload

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This clip is an amazing piece of work, it screens out all else but advertising to show how prevalent it is. Sourced from Dangerous Intersect...

SOLOPEC Nations Warn Sun's Output May Fall Short Of Demand

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Seriously funny stuff! Excerpt from The Onion , 22 June 2005 'RIYADH, MUHAMMAD ARABIA—The governing board of the Solar Output Power Expo...
30 May 2011

7 Ways to Stop Wall Street's Con Game

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Reposted in full from YES! Magazine , 25 May 2011 'Wikipedia defines a “confidence trick” as “an attempt to defraud a person or group by...

The Peasant Revolt

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Image: http://eavoss.files.wordpress.com Reposted in full from Transition Voice , 24 May 20 11 'Has our society become so obsessed wit...
27 May 2011

Stairs or Slide?

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There should be more of this! I've always said multi-storey buildings should have internal spiral slides, a la The Magic Faraway Tree! T...
26 May 2011

One-Third of World's Food Goes to Waste - UN

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Reposted in full from The Guardian , 12 May 2011 'One-third of the world's food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted ea...

Masters in Economics for Transition

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Sourced from the new economics foundation , May 2011 'From September 2011, Schumacher College, Dartington will be offer a new MA deg...

How ‘Homo-Economicus’ Destabilises Our Food Web

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Reposted in full from Smart Planet , 25 April 2011 ' Jennifer Dunne , professor at the Santa Fe Institute , is working on the first-ever...
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Enterprises Should Focus on Wellbeing Rather than Growth

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Reposted in full from The Guardian 'When I run sessions with business executives on growth, wellbeing, and innovation, I say that people...

Legal Rights for Nature

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Excerpt from Today's Zaman , 22 May 2011 Two small countries of Latin America have been taking Mother Earth, or 'Pachamama', qui...
25 May 2011

The New Geopolitics of Food

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Reposted in full from Foreign Policy , May/June 2011 'In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have ove...