Charles Fort (1874-1932)
The American eccentric writer and researcher whose name has become the ‘byword’ for all things odd, paranormal and hard to explain.
The Fortean worlds are like something out of ‘X files’, but have also spawned some serious quasi-scientific discourse and investigations. Worlds of ‘strange phenomena’.
The link here is to many of his writings.
Activist, author and film-maker, Charles Shaw’s website. Lots of images, films and most of all - ideas!
Christiania Freetown, Copenhagen in Denmark. One of the oldest squats turned legal arts and creative communities in Europe. A special place of exploration.
Co-housing is way of organising housing that is run by its residents. They have their own spaces but also share communally. Here are links to the associations in the United States and the UK.
Communes Britannica. A blog site organised by Chris Coates with links to publications, some interesting historical articles on communes, intentional communities and even hippies! Now re-named Diggers and Dreamers on its Facebook Group page.
Links to various articles from the British Library archives. Opens with Dreamers and Dissenters.
Saskatchewan eco-village in Canada is an eco-village which is growing. Lots of off-grid pioneers. Plenty of examples of innovative building designs and links to photos, info and videos. It even featured on Al Jazeera main news. But we’ve linked to the official Craik site and Green Energy Futures’ video.
Alternative media hub. They state that CrowdVoice is “tracking voices of protest” around the globe. Certainly it provides some alternative views on world news and conflicts. lots of different countries and issues covered.
Crypto-Zoology: is described, negatively, by Google as a ‘pseudoscience’. ‘The study of hidden animals’. Cryptozoology originates from the works of colleagues, Bernard Heuvelmans, a Belgian-French zoologist, and from Scotland, Ivan T. Sanderson.
It is many things – the search for, and codification of, mythical and extinct beings – humans, animals, birds – just about anything really. So-called monsters such as Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster share the billing with the Minotaur, the Dodo and Robin Hood. Dazed and Confused?
Here are a couple of links to find out more:
Located in Australia’s Queensland this is a 650 acre bushland eco-village. As well as the core group, there are many other ‘members’ of the community around the local area north of the Woodford Festival site.