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How Cooperatives and Community Enterprise Will Get Us Out of this Gigantic Mess
I’ve posted this excellent talk by Janelle Orsi from the brilliant Sustainable Economies Law Center a few times over on our facebook page. The whole presentation is well worth watching, but I...
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Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge
As mentioned a few posts ago, I’m going to be sharing lots of inspirational videos about education. This time we have educator and design activist Kiran Bir Sethi who says “Hope is not a strategy” and...
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Time to replicate WIR Bank?
The WIR Bank in Switzerland has been successfully running for over 60 years. It was started in the 1930s in response to the great economic crises of the time. Studies have shown that it’s turnover is...
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Money and Life - a new documentary about money
Have you seen Money and Life yet? It is a great new film all about money that is well worth watching. I’m pleased to say that I helped fund the production of the film by contributing to their...
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The Mondragon Co-operative Corporation
The Mondragón Corporation is an inspiration. The largest cooperative in the world, they are a federated network of over 250 co-operative businesses who together are the seventh biggest group in Spain....
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Changing Education Paradigms
Over 3 million people have watched Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED Talk about how schools kill creativity. But when it comes to videos about the need to change education there are few more famous tham the...
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Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action
We’ll never have a peaceful, just and sustainable world (or, as Charles Eisenstein says ‘the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible‘) whilst the land that sustains us all is owned and...
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Banking 101 - How money and banking actually works
This great little collection of videos is the clearest and most authoritative introduction to exactly how the monetary and banking system in the UK actually works. It is based on the excellent book...
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97% Owned - documentary about money and economics
Back in May 2003 we started a wiki to ‘discuss monetary reform and democracy‘, and I just posted Positive Money’s Banking 101 video course, probably the best introduction to how money and banking...
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Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
I love Pam Warhust. She is such a inspirational, grounded and powerful woman. This is one of my favourite TED talks, by far. Please, watch and share it now. It is about the inspirational story of...
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Crowd Farming at TEDxSydney 2013
Huge respect to TEDxSydney for doing thing properly when it comes to food. Watch the video for the inspirational story of how they fed the entire Sydney Opera House audience of 2,200 people at...
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TOGETHER. How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis
This great new documentary, featuring Mondragon and other co-operative inspirations shows how it is not just financial co-operatives who are more resilient to crisis, but all co-ops. The examples are...
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The Finland Phenomenon - the best education system in the world?
I posted yesterday about the urgent need to change education paradigms. As such it feels fitting to final re-post this post from Gloria’s blog here: Have you noticed there’s a lot of hullabaloo about...
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Josef's Journey to John O'Groats
Since this journey has ended up being a major milestone in the development of United Diversity I though I had better re-post this write up I did for the Brake The Cycle blog here too. Enjoy!Josef happy...
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United Diversity at the London Permaculture Festival
I’m off to Cloud Cuckoo Land Festival now, but thought I’d better whack this presentation I did at the London Permaculture Festival up first. I gives a brief history of United Diversity plus details of...
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