Our next Plymouth "Inquiry" is on October 13th - and it's a part of "Social Saturday"
The big metaphors that might save the planet. But should it be "post-growth", "green New deal", or "the economics of arrival"?
Plymouth's Nudge Community and Birmingham's Impact Hub both feature on Nesta/Observer's 50 "New Radicals"
The Good Country is an entirely new global/virtual nation, aiming "to make the world work better"
Don't think of currency, but "current-sees". How do we recognise different flows of value in our society? Art Brock knows
Despite reports, the party's still not kicking off... Some recent stats on political party membership in the UK
Stephen McLaren's The Crash - and what street photography can do for citizens
EVENT SUGGESTIONS FOR THE COMING WEEKS
The Business Plan for Peace - Building a World Without War@42 acres Shoreditch
Wed 26 Sep, 19.30-21 Scilla Elworthy has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics. She founded Peace Direct (2002) to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas and cofounded Rising Women Rising World (2013), and FemmeQ (2016). Scilla was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and was adviser to Peter Gabriel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’. Her latest book The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War (2017) and her book Pioneering the Possible: awakened leadership for a world that works (North Atlantic Books, 2014) received critical acclaim from experts in the field. Her TED talk on nonviolence has been viewed by over 1,130,000 people. An exciting new series of Resurgence events in London in association with 42 Acres Shoreditch. The monthly programme, inspired by the ideas of Resurgence covers a range of issues including the environment, arts, meditation and ethical living. All welcome.
More here.
'Activism and Artivism' Sustainability Festival: Discussion Panel, Screening & Live Music@House of Vans Fri 28 Sep, 18.30-21 This event by Blue Dot Generation aims to empower both individuals and communities to perform positive environmental change to help conserve the ocean. Blue Dot Generation generates this through art, education and science. They believe both activism and artivism give the ocean a much-needed voice. The evening will be followed by a live music event to demonstrate the power of sound as a tool to create togetherness. Using your passion as a means of expression is the most successful way to promote positive change.
17.30: Exhibitions open - FACES IN FOCUS (free)
18.45: Panel Discussion: Dr Tony Butt, Andy Hughes & Hugo Tagholm
20.00: Documentary screening: The Smog Of The Sea
22.00: Live music from George Taylor, Count Counsellor and Suprise Guest
More here.
Explore the Urban Forest: Hackney Central Circular@Hackney Central Overground Station Sun 7 Oct, 10.30-12.30 A new season of Urban Forest Explorations. We are delighted to welcome back Paul Wood, author of 'London Street Trees' (Guardian Nature Books of 2017) to entice you to Explore the Urban Forest in Hackney.
Hackney has become known as an 'Urban Arboretum' and with good reason: this east end borough is home to perhaps the most diverse selection of street trees in London. Over 300 species and cultivars can be found, and on this walk around a small part of the borough we will encounter at least 10%. "In Hackney, you can find streets lined with Kentucky Coffee Trees in Clapton, Hibiscus in Shoreditch, Wild Service Tree in Stoke Newington and Scots Pine in Dalston. The urban forest is relatively young here but what it lacks in maturity, it makes up for in diversity. There is something of interest at virtually every turn, and it will be exciting to see this part of town mature in the coming years." from 'London’s Street Trees' by Paul Wood.
More on the event here.
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