November 23rd, 2011 | Currency, D.I.Y., alternative, currency, Jem Bendell, LETS, open-money, talk, TED, timebank, video
Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organizations.
November 22nd, 2011
Produced and Directed by Nirah Elyza Shirazipour, the film discusses how the state of Israel is striving to sedentarize this historically nomadic indigenous population by uprooting them from their culture and community through the denial of basic resources, house demolitions, land appropriation and ...
October 8th, 2011
Since I can't embed this video just follow this link to get to the original story and video. This is a really good, very detailed, fair examination of making soft cheese in Switzerland. It also describes how, with our modern hygiene, technology and understanding of bacteria and yeasts, it is actuall ...
August 23rd, 2011
This Universal Newsreel shows an old Abkhasian, still leading his donkey about the hills at 165. His traditional culture somehow managed to maintain this impressive level of health and longevity without having to harvest kidneys (they call organ harvesting the 'red market' these days) or use a pleth ...
May 13th, 2011
I have had this video sitting open in my browser for months now, I watched half of it at some point and finally just finished watching it. The man speaking is Lee Brown but I don't know anything else about it other than a brief description posted on the youtube channel. It is at the Continental Indi ...
March 10th, 2011
I came across this amazing music video while watching Stim's latest update The Dominos Fall. The lyrics are posted below. The music, visuals and lyrics are so spot on I had to post it. Logic For My People Produced by AGENT OF CHANGE. Featuring Jody McIntyre and Lowkey. Available to buy on iTun ...
February 7th, 2011
The world is too much with us; Late and soon, Getting and spending, We lay waste our powers. - Wordsworth This is a great little video from a practical fellow who seems to be one of the ole' sourdoughs from the gold-rush days, returned to tell us how to live more practically. We really don't n ...
February 2nd, 2011
Happy New Year! Welcome to the year of the Rabbit and happy Groundhog Day! Winter is nearly over! We had great fun when we lived in upstate New York, we had a few groundhogs as our neighbors - they just loved eating up my garden. Gary the groundhog gives you a look into his daily activities as he ...
January 22nd, 2011
Wow this video is just too funny! Beware the milkman--they are always so healthy and in shape from all the good raw milk they drink and hard work they do. I guess they just can't help but be good and wholesomely sexy, with a strong libido to boot. That's probably where all those tales we used to hea ...
September 27th, 2010
Hey everyone, Hope you all are enjoying yourselves and have had marvellous weekends. I have entered a couple of videos in a couple of competitions. Please if you have a spare minute can you vote for them? As most of you have noticed we got fed up with google ads last year and got rid of them, ...
