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Thanks to everyone who attended the WiserEarth UK meeting
Thursday 17th December at The Guardian. It was great meeting you. Thanks to Mike for organising it and Carrina for hosting us. If you are interested in hosting or helping to organise future gatherings, please let Camilla or Mike Z. know
DECEMBER MEETING LINKS:
– see the WiserEarth photo stream on Flickr
– some more photos that Eddie Correia took
– read the blog and interview with Peggy: “Rethinking Networks as Passionate Human Clouds” written by David from SocialReporter.com
Discussions
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Introduce yourself here….
“Hello and thank you for your kind invite to join WiserEarth UK!
A little about myself ~ When I’m not wearing my bee-suit or working as an honorary psychotherapist at our local NHS Mental Health tru” …more
Rainbowbr… commented 11 days ago
Open national and local carbon accounts
“With news coverage of the Copenhagen climate summit there’s more awareness of the necessary political dialogue between countries. What there’s much less awareness of, including amonst the activist co” …more
philralph commented 3 months ago
Biochar – beware of miracle solutions – yes, that old one…
“Thanks Louis, your link was about land-grabbing, which is one of many ways to do biochar badly. I thought we were agreed it should not be done badly so I’m curious please what did you mean with “howe” …more
blindspotter commented 3 months ago
Peggy Duvette visit / integrating face to face meetings and online stuff
“There’s definitely room for improvements. Did you notice any speed improvements the past month or so? We’ve been doing several tweaks to the system. We’re also working on improving the usability.
A” …more
bowo commented 3 months ago
OFF GRID AID PALESTINE – please vote
“Ah….
Have a look and tell me what you think?
Also, I’d like to invite you to join the group I’ve been working on for quite a few months now.
When I first – suddenly – came upon a long list of Isr” …more
azariarah… commented 4 months ago
Provisional Meetings
“Hi Mike,
Re 17th December meeting in London.
Whilst I’d welcome the opportunity to meet up with everyone, travelling up to London from my home in Somerset for an evening meeting doesn’t seem su” …more
sallylever commented 4 months ago
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Palestinian Israeli Peace NGO Forum (Israel Office)
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Beshara School at the Chisholme Institute – The
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Plant Interactions
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Scope: international
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Dane Valley Woods
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Thanet Environmental Network
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Embrace Cooperation Ltd
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University of Vermont,Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Solutions Seminar Series, lecture videos – http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=videos.html&defaultmenu.html; Phil Slade 29 days ago
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@reliefweb Mongolia: -50°C temps kill 1.7 million head of livestock, 21 000 herder families risk of food insecurity http://bit.ly/b726ah Phil Slade 25 days ago
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Do we have anything in common with Worldeka ? http://www.worldeka.com/member Phil Slade 17 days ago
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Thanks for this Phil. No we don’t have anything in common with them, but it looks like a good site. Camilla Burg 17 days ago
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Global PechaKucha Day for Haiti,The 280 city PechaKucha network is joining with Architecture for Humanity http://architectureforhumanity.org/ to help rebuild Haiti , Join us around the the world on 20th February for Global PechaKucha Day for Haiti. http://www.pecha-kucha.org/pechakucha-for-haiti Phil Slade 17 days ago
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WiserTweets Providing visibility to WiserEarth content through Twitter. http://www.wiserearth.org/group/tweets Phil Slade 16 days ago
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An article & video, Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor by Naomi Klein http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/12-1 Phil Slade 16 days ago
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DISASTER APPEAL FUND – DONATION PAGE Many, many thanks for coming to our Disaster Appeal Page. If you have already heard or read of the disaster that is unfolding in Mongolia we hope that you will find it in your heart to be as generous as possible in helping to meet the needs of our Mongolian friends – the nomadic herders and their families – who are in such a desperate situation. http://www.camda.org.uk/DisasterAppeal.html Phil Slade 11 days ago
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Thanks Phil for sharing these links Camilla Burg 7 days ago
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WiserTuesday face-to-face gatherings for ‘wiser folk’ are growing – interested in helping? http://bit.ly/al5eoH #wisertuesday #wiserearth Camilla Burg 7 days ago
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The Do Lectures (videos) 2008 – posted by Phil Slade
Rss feed for cop 15 – U.N. Climate Change Conference – Copenhagen
http://en.cop15.dk/news/rss?
“The COP15 conference is the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention. The conference will take place from 7 december to 18 December 2009.”
Check out the movie that Mark Desvaux is working on called Part of the Solution.
Basecamp is a useful software tool for managing projects,
especially community or volunteer projects. Rachael added this to
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Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
Paper and slides presented to a NATO Science meeting. “Together the switches define a practical strategy for global security, for a serious attempt at revival of co-operation, ecosystems and prosperit …more
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Prosperity Without Growth
This paper by Tim Jackson, a ‘commissioner’ at the UK Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), makes very interesting reading. Try the summary initially.
All modern economies seek growth, which is …more
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From credit crunch to planet crunch – or revival?
How to quickly take care of waste, toxics, pollution, loss of resources, loss of nature, climate change AND run a vigorous economic revival. Paper and slides for the Middle East Waste Summit, May 26t …more
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Home 2009 Project film
HOME is a spectacular film by Yann Arthus Bertrand that came about with the support and commitment of an amazing international and diverse team and of a large corporate group.
The free access movie …more
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Solutions
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Let’s try forward gear!
Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blind …more
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Part of the Solution
“Part of the Solution” is a new documentary feature film currently in production. Director Mark Desvaux, having recently seen Age of Stupid said; “I wish our film could have screened straight after, a …more
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People-Centered Economic Development
Poverty and the risk of terrorism due to the growing numbers who are economically disenfranchised.
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