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A Thousand Huts

A Thousand Huts
Name
A Thousand Huts
Category
Environment, Global ideas
Description

A thousand huts is a visionary attempt in Scotland in the UK to bring back ‘hutting’ and simple huts for people to sleep in.

Part of the re-foresting and re-wilding movement.

Website
http://www.thousandhuts.org/

Auroville

Auroville
Name
Auroville
Category
Communal spaces and places, Environment, Global ideas
Description

This is a very grandly conceived utopian city that is being gradually developed in Southern India.

It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (known as "The Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger. However, it is not without its problems.

Their aim is: “Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities.
The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.”

Links to the official site and a commentary on the problems faced in Auroville.

Website
http://www.auroville.org/
Website 2
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/07/auroville_india_s_famed_utopian_community_struggles_with_crime_and_corruption.html

Austin Osman Spare

Austin Osman Spare
Name
Austin Osman Spare
Category
Art, Books, Global ideas
Description

A London visionary artist, occultist, philosopher and writer. Born in 1886 and died in relativity obscurity in 1956.

Originator of the Sigil. And one of the key figures in the development of chaos magick. His artwork was always controversial and full of sexual imagery. His book ‘The Book of Pleasure (self love): the psychology of ecstasy’ is viewed as a major title in esoteric literature and art.

Website
http://hermetic.com/spare/
Website 2
https://fulgur.co.uk/artists-and-writers/austin-osman-spare/

Autonomedia

Autonomedia
Name
Autonomedia
Category
Art, Books, Global ideas, Protest and activism
Description

Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media. They publish books on radical media, politics and the arts.

Website
www.autonomedia.org

Baeredygtig Udvikling

Baeredygtig Udvikling
Name
Baeredygtig Udvikling
Category
Books, Education, Environment, Global ideas
Description

Baeredygtig Udvikling: bu.dk is a comprehensive Danish portal that focuses on the environmental, economic, social and political developments in Denmark and Globally.  Lots of information that can be translated into English.

Website
www.bu.dk

Bamford Quaker Community

Bamford Quaker Community
Name
Bamford Quaker Community
Category
Books, Communal spaces and places, Environment, Global ideas, Human Rights
Description

There’s now a book, ‘An Adventure Shared’, published by Diggers and Dreamers about the life, struggles, highs and lows of this community (1985-2010 compiled by Rachel Rowlands). Bamford Community is based in the Derbyshire Dales in England.

A link to the book and to their website which includes a short video with nice pics and stirring music!

Website
http://www.quakercommunity.org.uk/
Website 2
http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/content/adventure-shared

Benny Zable

Benny Zable
Name
Benny Zable
Category
Art, Communal spaces and places, Environment, Festivals, Global ideas, Protest and activism
Description

Australian performer/artist/eco-activist. On the frontline of artistic eco-protest since the late 1960s. Founded the Nimbin Aquarius Foundation linking the Rainbow Region of Australia with Woodstock in the USA.

Links to his own website and a great video of him talking about his art – and masks from the ‘Dark Side’.

Website
http://bennyzable.com/
Website 2
https://vimeo.com/102865863

Bhutan Organic

Bhutan Organic
Name
Bhutan Organic
Category
Education, Environment, Global ideas
Description

Interesting article about Bhutan’s agricultural goal: “In 2011, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan announced a lofty goal: make the country’s agricultural system 100 percent organic by the year 2020. If it succeeded, it would be the first country in the world to achieve the feat.”

Here’s a link to a Reuter’s article and to a video.

Website
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/28/us-bhutan-emissions-farming-idUSKCN0RS0DO20150928
Website 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRren9IjQs

Bitcoin

Bitcoin
Name
Bitcoin
Category
Global ideas, Protest and activism
Description

The Bitcoin revolution is beginning to be discussed outside of the Dark Web. Tomer Kantor’s site offers some views and videos about the developments.

Website
www.iamsatoshi.com/

Blindpainters Foundation including World in a Shell

Blindpainters Foundation including World in a Shell
Name
Blindpainters Foundation including World in a Shell
Category
Art, Communal spaces and places, Education, Environment, Global ideas
Description

Link to the Foundation website for the non-commercial, Blindpainters, based from Amsterdam.  Originally established in 1994.

It includes info about the Foundation; the World in a Shell; Beecare and the Euroarttrain.

Innovative stuff indeed!

Website
https://www.blindpainters.org/
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