Revision as of 21:25, 3 November 2013

Michael Pollan's Food Rules vimeo.com Based on Michael Pollan's talk "Food Rules" given at the RSA, this animation was created in the context of the RSA/Nominet Trust film competition. Using a mixture…

http://vimeo.com/35444471

http://vimeo.com/35554292 take nothing for granted

Video & documentaties

"There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside, first." - Jim Morrison // The sustainable Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9pDfxdWT2js#t=24

What a way to go - LIfe at the end of the empire

http://www.youtube.com/embed/h2em1x2j9-o?rel=0

Music

Pearl Jam: Yield , album inspired by Ishamel (Daniel Quinn)

Thrivability as a criticism to sustainability

http://p2pfoundation.net/Thrivability

Links

Becha's Talks and Presentations

September 2013, (h)ACTA Open Day, Amsterdam Hackerspace Technologia Incognita (slides to be added later)

October 2013, RIPE67, synopses for the undelivered talk Hackers_tribes:42_questions

Limits to Growth

video from '69 by albert bartlett, on laws of sustainability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8

and transcript

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_transcript_english.html

quote:

       "You cannot sustain population growth and / or growth in the                  
       rates of consumption of resources."

quote

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is                                                            
our inability to understand the exponential function."

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-15/albert-bartlett-on-message-about-exponential-growth-to-the-end

"There is no tomorrow", animation

There is no unlimited happiness http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-myth-of-immaterial-growth-and-infinite-happiness/2013/10/15

Climate

http://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/

http://climate.diplomacy.edu

[Going beyond two degrees? The risks and opportunities of alternative options] // [PDF]

Climate Scientists calling for Revolt & Revolution, Naomi Klein http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

the revolutionary nature of climate science http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

"our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability."

challenging currents economic paradigm is humanity’s best shot at avoiding catastrophe

"ditching of this cruel system is no longer a matter of mere ideological preference but rather one of species-wide existential necessity" 

"we have an economic system that fetishises GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences" 

"Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony" 

Near Term Extinction

Has runaway greenhouse guaranteed near-term extinction? https://program.ohm2013.org/event/180.html

http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/

http://www.vice.com/read/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon

Misc

The 6th collapse (briefly covering the five collapses) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/guest-post-sixth-stage-collapse

http://www.wildfoodschool.co.uk/ && http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/the-fast-wild-food-cookbook.html?utm_source=GraphicMail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=NewsletterLink&utm_campaign=gs-sept-2013.html&utm_content=

http://www.tog.ie/2013/10/dublin-hacks-disaster-smart-cities/

UN urges humans to become vegans http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

https://micromag.evidenceandinfluence.org/?issue=environment-and-justice

Noam Chomski, old video about Peak Oil etc (one of many) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCTTKvNkic

http://roarmag.org/2013/10/crisis-representation-autonomy-self/

To overcome the crisis of democracy and reaffirm our autonomy, we first of all need to liberate our empty self from mindless consumerism and conformity.

Representation places the source of legitimacy outside of oneself. Whether it is a corporate brand name, political party, an ideology or slogan, one looks for objects of representation through which something inside can be projected out onto the world.

Slowly Boiling Frog (just like in "the story of B")

People are moving more and more outside of electoral politics. A call is arising for a new type of governance, for a real democracy where each person participates directly and manifests their own voice. This is a political act, but it is also much more. The current crisis of democracy is a crisis of representation. Images that perpetuate illusions about ourselves can no longer sustain our humanity.

Partial Solutions

Low-Carbon Society
- International research network http://lcs-rnet.org
- http://2050.nies.go.jp/index.html
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14693062.2012.738016

[Climate policies in a changing world context: is a paradigm shift needed?]

http://www.alternet.org/activism/people-across-america-are-waking-effects-disaster-capitalism-much-better-way-life-possible?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark (alternatives to Disaster Capitalism & to economic, energy, environment crisis) 26 Sep 2013

http://www.popularresistance.org/ten-things-you-can-do-to-democratize-the-economy/

Cooperation in a village in Serbia: http://afflatusnews.com/Serbia/1/Svi_stanovnici_jednog_sela_u_Banatu_su_se_udružili_da_bi_svi_ziveli_bolje

Marinaleda : A Terra de Todos - The Land of Utopia (Cooperative / Utopian village in Spain) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlqT4NPM9E

http://opensourceecology.org The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. - See more at: http://opensourceecology.org/#sthash.0FWPjs5Y.dpuf