Ed Dowding

• Dougald Hine, cofounder of School of Everything, tries to reconcile modern life and parenthood
• How to persuade people with a few magic words: because, now, imagine, please and thank you, the person’s name, ‘control’ words which suggest you know what’s going on
• A frustrated Alex Steffen of World Changing points out that the revolution needs to happen bloody quickly, and dramatically, and not be way-layed by small kludged fixes
• A flash mob for farming: CropMob
• There I fixed it (old, but just remembered it)
• A low impact co-housing project in Leeds
• You can now take an MA in Activism and Social Change
• Good list of green companies at the Green Web Awards

In addition to a photo of this alarming and somehow still legal poster, there’s a jolly good lecture about capitalism and communism over at Leninology (via Sophie).

The lecture is given by Richard Wolff, the Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, so he makes a well reasoned and very self-aware argument.

I share his hope that we can use this time of financial and environmental crisis as an opportunity for a reappraisal and renaissance.

It’s 40 minutes long so make a sandwich and a cup of tea and enjoy the lecture.

uhoh.. at last.fm has some competition – spotify is looking pretty cool.

Only 4 rabbits, but still that’s 8 meals for standing around in the sun all day looking at the view. And one snared rat when we got home too

If banks can get billions for screwing up, I feel I deserve to be awarded a few hundred thousand for behaving myself.

I met a chap called Tom Sacchi, a partner at www.unit9.com, at a party last night. He has an embossed fucshia business card which brings out the American Psycho in me.

I was checking out their website this morning and they’ve done some very neat stuff, and have a great artistic style. I suggest you take a look around.

Astonishing that $700bn = $104 for EVERYONE on the planet. Including
the 100,000 born today. Fuck you, unbridled capitalism and human
nature.

Only 98 months to go until we’re reach the fork in the road which
gives climate change the positive feedback it needs to kills billions
of people!

1. Sign this: http://www.timetolead.eu/
2. Watch this: http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html

is hilarious!

Here’s the BBC Adventure Show take on the Artemis Great Kindrochit
Quadrathlon I competed in earlier this year. There’s a hukka from
yours truly at about 1m30s, and a few other clips here and there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dsr32/