Link Loving 19.02.12

• Climate change and justice – Amy Mount shares what she’s learning at Yale.
• Learning facilitation from Delia Smith. Perry Walker.
• Taking the scare out of scarcity. Phil Auerswald.
• Alternatives emerging in Greece – communities taking matters into their own hands. Andrew Simms.
• Towards a theory of co-op capitalism. Noreena Hertz.
• If John Lewis is so great, why aren’t there more businesses like it? Tim Finch.

What If We Solved Inequality?

‘If the question of the distribution of wealth was solved for all society and all lived in relative comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.’

Walter Rauschenbusch

h/t Occupying the Gospel – On Being

Link Loving 18.02.12

• John Harris questions the use of consensus at Occupy LSX.
• What is Avaaz doing in Syria? Emma Ruby-Sachs.
• Follow the Daily Torygraph for continued amusement.
• Chilean students make a strategic retreat. Luisa Trujillo.
• What makes some ads go viral, and others fail? Thales Teixeira.
• The Parisian network of hacker-artists. Fascinating. Jon Lackman.
• Do we have time to shift values? Tom Crompton.

Link Loving 17.02.12

• The greening of Guantanamo Prison is not, nor ever will be, sustainable. Natalya Sverjensky.
• Amy Mount on windfarms. Someone get that woman a column.
• Voices of SNCC – hear Ella Baker and Julian Bond discussing its founding and legacy. h/t Gavin Thomson.
• The artist vandalising advertising with poetry. Matilda Battersby.
• Russian viral video showing Putin being arrested. Smart framing. Joshua Keating.
• Apparently we missed out on celebrating World Radio Day. And I really love radio. Amy O’Donnell.
• Rules for the social era. Nilofer Merchant.

Everything Is A Remix: System Failure

Link Loving 16.02.12

• Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman talks systemic change within Apple’s supply chain on Keith Olbermann.
• How not to communicate your values – the PETA Valentine’s Day advert. Anna North.
• All There Is – voices of ordinary Americans talking about love. Really beautiful. Thanks Gavin Thomson.
• A beautiful message of solidarity from anti-coal activists in Borneo to Kosovo.
• Is twitter today’s newswire? Chloe Sladden.
• Great piece on Oxfam’s report on inequality from George Monbiot.

An American Spring

Thought Occupy Wall Street was disappearing?

Wrong. Say hello to The99Spring.com.

And what comes after April? May Day. And a May Day General Strike.

Link Loving 15.02.12

• Aaah, finally I find the organisation I’ve been looking for – Finance Watch.
• This interview with an engineer on the Today Programme made me cry. Alexandros Papademos.

Work That Needs Doing

Millions of people are unemployed.

Millions of projects are going undone.

It’s time to put the two together.

Work That Needs Doing.

Makes sense, no? Great work from the organisations behind this project.

Link Loving 14.02.12

• Why we love powerful music. Michaeleen Doucleff.
• How do you shop for something that doesn’t yet exist?
• A worldwork perspective on Occupy from therapist and conflict facilitator Lane Arye. 
• Meet Xi Jinping, China’s heir apparent — the cleanest, least offensive, most loyal politician the party could find. Kerry Brown.
• How does Occupy fit into Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan? Pretty well explains Betsy Raach-Gilman.
• How groups come together – forming, storming, norming and performing. Bruce Tuckman (pdf) h/t Ro Randall