Freecycle has been a great, and highly popular idea/group. Unfortunately, the way it is run, as an email list via a Yahoo group means it simply isn’t capable of managing the workload placed on the system. Having to scroll through several hundred emails for the one which advertises what I’m looking for is not a [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Bristol Indymedia Launches Indycycle
Posted in media activism, tagged indycycle, indymedia on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Russia with Love… The Impact on Global Climate from the Champions League Final
Posted in climate change, cultural criticism, tagged climate change, culture, environment, sport on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So last night was the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea. The neutral venue for these two English teams to play was not somewhere geographically sensible like Northampton, but Moscow. As in Moscow, Russia.
The distance from London to Moscow for Chelsea fans to travel was a mere 2498km each way, whereas the [...]
Bateson – Steps to An Ecology of Mind
Posted in Ecophilosophy, tagged bateson, ecology, philosophy on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today the purposes of consciousness are implemented by more and more effective machinery, transportation systems, airplanes, weaponry, medicine, pesticides and so forth. Conscious purpose is now empowered to upset the balances of the body, of society, and of the biological world around us. A pathology – a loss of balance – is threatened.
On [...]
