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Ways of knowing

Some thoughts on ‘Ways of Knowing’ – from a discussion circle, 7th September 2010, Totnes, Devon, UK The meeting was attended by Sophy Banks, Ben Brangwyn, Naresh Giangrande, Rob Hopkins, Peter Lipman, Hilary Prentice and Fiona Ward, and set out to explore the following four questions: * what is the role of

Weird messages from our development server

Thank you very much to Nicole Brammy for bringing this to our attention – our development server seems to be sending some email alerts to site users which it should not be doing. These are confusing as they look like they are your normal subscriptions emails, but if you follow the

Community Currency Magazine in need of volunteers

CC Magazine is a magazine dedicated to, well, community currencies obviously, and does good things. It’s an entirely free publication, and is in need of some help. Owing to personal situations, the magazine is moving from one person running it to a group of people. They need: * a volunteer

Climate Change and Islam – a Call to Heal

“It is He who has appointed you guardians in the earth” (Qur’an 6:165) Wisdom in Nature, a London based Islamic Environment group, has just published a booklet on Islam and Climate Change. Through basing itself on Islamic principles, the booklet explains climate change from an Islamic perspective and

Coping with Low Incomes and Cold Homes

The heating vs eating choice is very real for many people on low incomes in the UK. Currently, it’s believed that more than 5 million households in the UK can’t afford to keep adequately warm in winter. The Centre for Sustainable Energy has just published a study documenting

Two minute Peak Oil primer video

Thanks to Rachel Roddam in Australia for bringing this quick stop explanatory Peak Oil explano-video to our attention: Who’d have thought we could give our friends the low down on peak oil AND that warm fuzzy feeling all in 2 minutes! Try this primer movie, which gives the

Transition Drupal granted licence to use drupal in its name

Great news indeed, Andre, who is a driving force behind the Transition Drupal project, has been granted the right to use the Drupal trademark in the project’s name. This is top news – good work all – here’s the blurb: Hi, everyone. Great news: we’ve qualified for a perpetual,