Friends of the Earth International is their hub to global campaigns on environmental and social issues.
A portal site that encourages a ‘warrior response’ to global catastrophes. Developed from the work of Max Igan, who started formulating the idea of The Full Circle Project in 2012. The site tells us that, “he was particularly concerned to draw attention to the plight of the Amazon forest and all the natural treasures it contains. He wanted to call people everywhere to come together and recognise the power we had as One People to change the tide of destruction and the rape of our planet.”
One of the most esoteric thinkers of the twentieth century. His ideas and writings provided ‘mind food’ for many free cultural spaces and people. A complex legacy. Here are a couple of links that introduce us to elements of that legacy including the ‘Gurdjieff International Review’.
“Without struggle, no progress and no result.”
Their website states that: “The Gaia Foundation is passionate about regenerating cultural and biological diversity, and restoring a respectful relationship with the Earth. Together with long-term partners in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe, we work with local communities to secure land, seed, food and water sovereignty. By reviving indigenous knowledge and protecting sacred natural sites, local self-governance is strengthened.”
This is described on the site link as: “Through Gaia University, they are pioneering educational designs that allow learners to discover and demonstrate grounded solutions to complex ecological and social problems through the integration of ecosocial theory and hands-on practice.”
The founders are: Liora Adler and Andrew Langford, who have been deeply involved as leaders in ecovillage, permaculture, bioregional and consensus facilitation worknets for over thirty years.
The United Nations named the village a model of sustainable development. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called founder Paolo Lugari the "inventor of the world." An example of the ‘Blue Economy’; self-sufficiency on a local scale.
Links to video films and descriptions of what goes on there.
UK Channel 4 TV documentary show featuring lots of literally, amazing spaces for living and working. Many of them low-impact, sustainable and DiY. From sensational sheds, fabulous floating homes, to eye-watering nomadic bus conversions. Lots of great ideas and some amazing builders too. Artistic and practical ingenuity in bucket-loads!
UK-based, George is an important commentator/writer on the edges of festival culture. His books on festivals, radical gardening and music are situated in the cracks and margins between social activism, popular culture and academic study. He describes himself as “a British academic with a longstanding research interest in alternative cultures and living practices, festivals and gardens, participatory arts and media, music, protest, peace, disability, and social movements.”
UK intellectual, natural historian, eco-activist, broadcaster, social commentator and writer.
He says in his on-line blog: “I still see my life as a slightly unhinged adventure whose perpetuation is something of a mystery. I have no idea where it will take me, and no ambitions other than to keep doing what I do. So far it’s been gripping.”
Always challenging…see links to his own website and a link to a TED video of one of his talks about ‘going wild’. Re-wilding. Back to nature, if you like.
Global Communities started out in the USA as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing. It works on sustainability in a ‘bottom-up’ way valuing the views and energy of communities. The agency currently works in more than 20 countries around the world.