Link Loving 14.04.12

• What does non-cooperation with the healthcare reforms look like? Can we learn from Denmark in 1940? Matthew Herbert.
• Welcome to IKEAville – a 26-acre self-contained neighborhood in Stratford. Alessandra N Ram.
• Fossil fuel subsidies are the real job killers. May Boeve and Brendan Smith.
• Harvard Business Review’s Polly LaBarre asks ‘Whose capitalism is it anyway?’.
• Tory backed “grassroots” campaign is ‘buying Facebook likes from India’. Political Scrapbook.

An Invocation For Beginners

Do you procrastinate? Can you be your own worst enemy?

Ze Frank is the go-to guy for cool internet links, funny jokes and good times. He’s been a way for a little while – and now is back.

This video is his manifesto to himself about beginning again – and is powerfully beautiful for anyone in need of inspiration!

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL_g&feature=colike]

Truth

Link Loving 13.04.12

 

• What is to be done about the advertising industry? Morgan Phillips.
• The keys to community togetherness. Jason Kehe.
• This is how the Republican right make attack dogs. Erin Gloria Ryan.
• Best ad stunt ever? h/t Rebs Newsom.

Occupy – Conflict, Dysfunction, Resolution?

If you’re signed up to Adbusters Magazine (culture-jamming, radical politics, the magazine that called for Occupy Wall Street last year) – you would have received an email with this text and image yesterday.

“Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?”

Read the full story of the movement dysfunction here. A true masterclass in lack of trust, movement-strategy and collaboration.

Friends, please let’s never let this happen to us.

Link Loving 12.04.12

• Giving up on environmentalism. Painful but important reading. Dave Pollard. h/t Matthew Herbert.
• 50 Life Lessons. Amazing. h/t Rich Hawkins
• Be proud of your accomplishments, not your affiliations. Daniel Gulati.
• I love Matt Williams for showing us all how to do what you love.

The Devotion Project – Laura, Jamie and Simon

The latest video from the Devotion Project had me in tears again. Such beautiful and simple videos that shift attitudes and expectations elegantly and powerfully.

Link Loving 11.04.12

• PIRC has a beautiful new publication – The Climate Factsheets.
• Fantastic ideas and projects mapping site from Tessy, Laura and the gang at Social Spaces – The Civic Crowd.
• And one more mapping link – from the Global Transition. Mapping a green and fair world. h/t Kirsty Schneeberger.

The Enrich List

As a kid, I loved browsing the Sunday Times Rich List every year. A more extrinsic journalistic exercise I can’t imagine, so I was thrilled to see The En-Rich List – a top 100 list that celebrates the wealth of inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures. Great work from the Post-Growth Institute!

h/t Gavin Thomson

What Music Can Mean