New Zealand film documentary on the NZonScreen website. Wonderful images of old-style hippy festivals and much more.
You’ll find other interesting archived films there too.
A link is to info about the DiY system, plus further links.
Famed UK road protestors who travelled with handcarts to site protests and ancient hill forts around the UK. They also included some good musicians. Worth checking out the links to a German video and some of their music from around the world via a Bell Tent!
Their name apparently comes from the Matabele word for ‘gully’ – in their case the gully at Twyford Down protest site.
Organisation behind many of Australia’s largest eco-festivals. Linking up alternative lifestylers, creators and eco-activists.
Their official description: “The Down to Earth Co-op Society has been organising ConFest (Conference/ Festival). We are a completely volunteer organisation. The first ConFest was held at Cotter River, ACT in 1976 with the aim of `transforming society'. ConFest was started as an 'alternative living' festival in the 1970's by Jim Cairns (then Deputy Prime Minister) and his assistant Junie Morosi and others.”
The first rural ‘commune' (perhaps). It thrived, grew too unwieldy and withered. Links to many tales, pics and video. On the site, it says:
“In 1962, Gene Bernofsky, Jo Ann Bernofsky and Clark Richert were students at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Gene and Clark developed a concept they called “Drop Art” (coining the term well before the era-branding slogan, “Turn on, tune in, drop out”). "Dropping" artworks from the rooftop of a loft space in Lawrence, they were making art a spontaneous part of everyday life in the face of a society they saw as increasingly materialistic and war-mongering.
In 1965, they bought a small piece of land near Trinidad, Colorado andcalled their settlement Drop City. They were soon joined by other artists, writers and inventors, and they started building a community that celebrated creative work.”
Drop City's dazzling structures were based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and the crystalline designs of Steve Baer, a pioneer in geometric structure and solar energy.
Earth First! UK site, but it contains lots of international reports by the people involved in eco-actions.
Earth First! Worldwide, which contains useful links to eco-activities around the globe.
Originally established in Australia by eco-activist, Franklin Scarf. There’s also a Foundation that has been promoting the Charter around the world.
Big aims to save and repair the planet.
There are a number of organisations and communities around the world with this name. This is the link to: Emmaus International, which is committed to its work in six priority areas:
right to water,
health
education,
ethical finance,
fighting human trafficking,
international migration
Enabler Publications site, based in the UK offers an interesting portal into information, links and books about the new Travellers in the UK and beyond, the evolution of festivals, eco-living, alternative Australia and a diverse range of interests around creative work with young people and the environment, including Africa.