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- Global Eco-village network This is the BIGGEST DATABASE OF ECO-VILLAGES on the web. You can search by region, by theme, country … so sustainable lifestyle doesn´t mean one has to be absent from the web.
- sustainable settlements in the UK Eco-villages? Communes? Alternative settlements? There are more of them than you might think. Especially in the UK! Here´s a link that will prove it. So if you wanna search for projects on the island – get on it!
- Website for action in France (Alpes)
- Website for action in Greece You are going to Greece, you want to help the local activists AND you can read greek? This is the perfect website then …
- Website for action in Spain Alternative environmental and political action, direct action, workshops, demonstrations, people´s kitchen, … this website may help you to help spanish activists – or to meet them if you´re there …
Eat
- food-coop – do-it-yourself supermarket as you would want it to be: local and organic A food-coop is a collective of people who order products with local producers. Their food did not come by airplane from the other half of the globe and is organic in most cases. This link is a directory for food-coops in Germany.
- Whatever you are planning to do – there is a green way of doing it. The Green Guide tells you how. What to look for when buying paint? What vegetables are seasonally now? Small but important steps towards more sustainability are lited here.
Help them
- Are you living as if we had 2.34 planets? Knowledge is power and here is some of it. Packed lunch? Chemical-free laundry balls? Read here what you could do to treat the planet as a singular thing
- E-cosystems under construction motivated people created this platform for you to fill it with information about green events, eco-communities and other stuff.
- Website for action in France (Angers) Demosphere calling for action in Angers
- Website for action in France (Gironde) This website makes activist´s life much easier – especially when living in Gironde. On demosphere you will find environmental, political and cultural events, announcements of demonstrations and proposals for actions.
- Website for action in France (Paris and region) Going to Paris? If you are up for environmentalist or political action, for meeting other activists and to work the international network – have a look what is going on in and around Paris.
- What is Online Activism? Some organizations are actually providing you with the rare privilege to become an activist without moving away from your beloved screen. Here is just one example of an “action” performed in the cyberspace
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- E-cosystems under construction motivated people created this platform for you to fill it with information about green events, eco-communities and other stuff.
- Eco-friendly technology You are not one of the back-to-the-roots people, not up for returning to the forest yet? Still you can be eco-friendly with all your gadgets around you!
- Grassroot radio round the world – a collection of independent frequencies Annoying publicities after every second minute, copypasted news and the same song over and over again … had enough? Diversity on your radio is what this link can offer.
Recycle
- Reduce, reuse, freecycle – get stuff for free If you do not need it this does not mean nobody else could use it – and the other way around: find your local freecycle network, subscribe and get rid of useless things, make your secret material dreams come true – all free of charge and environmentally f
- Whatever you are planning to do – there is a green way of doing it. The Green Guide tells you how. What to look for when buying paint? What vegetables are seasonally now? Small but important steps towards more sustainability are lited here.
Travel
- Couchsurfing – You can sleep for free at people´s places all over the planet. Check out how it works This is a sustainable alternative to staying in hotels where loads of waste is generated every day (disposables, plastic packaging, paper), enery efficiency is mostly ignored and not local economy but some big hotel chain profits from your stay.
- Global Eco-village network This is the BIGGEST DATABASE OF ECO-VILLAGES on the web. You can search by region, by theme, country … so sustainable lifestyle doesn´t mean one has to be absent from the web.
- sustainable settlements in the UK Eco-villages? Communes? Alternative settlements? There are more of them than you might think. Especially in the UK! Here´s a link that will prove it. So if you wanna search for projects on the island – get on it!
- Whatever you are planning to do – there is a green way of doing it. The Green Guide tells you how. What to look for when buying paint? What vegetables are seasonally now? Small but important steps towards more sustainability are lited here.
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Vegan Public Livingroom (2)
When the shift is over the volunteers hang out on the soft sofas in the cafe, read books from the shelfs of their tiny but meaty;-) bookshop, play games and cook food with things from the volunteer fridge which contains older and skipped food – vegan of course. Some stay over and sleep on the couch to wake up when the first shift starts and continue to make food. The transition from the vegan public livingroom to the vegan cafe and vice-versa is organic. Continue reading
Vegan Public Livingroom (1)
They would make vegan sweets and dishes, sell homemade soup and anarchist books. Then happened what is in the Pogo-milieu referred to a “the historical coup”. It was an argument about skipped meat in the freezer.
As a result those volunteers and payed workers on the top of the informal hierarchy that had developed in the community cafe over the years left the Pogo. A new crew of people took over the daily business and made the Pogo cafe a place for militant veganism, home-made soup sold in recycled bottles and road protest info-nights… Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Rights, blog, blogging, cafe, co-operative, community, cooking crew, daily, Europe, Food, Hackney, hang out, info-night, kitchen, living, London, meet, militant, people, places, Pogo, products, sel, sell, Sustainability, Sustainable Alternatives, U.K:, vegan, veganism, volunteer, worker´s co-op
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Tradition bordelaise – L´Athénée Libertaire: stories from an anarchist library in Bordeaux (3)
The people who tend to spend the highest amount of time inside the Athénée are those who run the cooperatives: the librarians, the beer brewers and the printers. It is mostly a different group of people who organises the readings on Marius Jacob, an anarchist burglar who lived in France a century ago,
or discussions with a regional group called “blind angle” who is active against police violence,
or fundraisers in the shape of punk concerts for example.
All those regularily attract an audience big enough to fill the Athénée. Continue reading
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Tagged activism, activist, activites, anarchism, anarchist, anarchist books, anarchist philosophy, Angles Morts, audience, blog, bottom up, commitment, community, concert, cultural programme, discussion, Europe, France, group, Marius Jacob, militants, monthly, organise, participate, police violence, politics of act, punk, social, space, Sustainable Alternatives, theatre, theory, Villiers-le-Bel, volunteers
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Wild Derbyshire (2)
There are horses on the land, a pond next to the house, several barns that will be converted into living space and raised beds planned on the land because the soil is not fertile… Continue reading
Posted in How people live in communes
Tagged children, commune, community, countryside, Derbyshire, diggers, dreamers, dynamics, Europe, horses, life, live together, living, move, pond, raised beds, space, UK, volunteers, wild peak, work weekends, yurt
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Wild Derbyshire (1)
Many people have the dream to move to the countryside. Buy some land, make a commune, grow some veg! For many people who have decided to be serious about it it is a long way to arive there.
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Tagged blog, commune, community, countryside, Derbyshire, eco, grow some veg, land, move, self-sustainable, Sustainability, Sustainable Alternatives, UK
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Eco-works (2)
Everyone can come here to volunteer and take some fruit and vegetables home – or just sit under the apple tree and enjoy the view from the hill. Those volunteers who were getting a bit of money through external funding to work with people with mental health issues in the garden and do outdoor community work were also making lots of projects on the site – such as building the clay hut for several years with a varying group of lay visitors. Everywhere in Europe severe spendng cuts are imposed on social welfare and especially community projects such as the Ecoworks. Continue reading
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Tagged affect, alternative, apple tree, austerity politics, blog, blogging, building clay hut, clay, close down, community, community work, compost toilet, cuts, ecoworks, foil tunnel, garden, government, green, living in, mental health, Nottingham, outdoor work, project, spending, sustaiable Alternatives, Sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, UK, volunteer, volunteer run
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London´s most magic village (4)
Next summer gentrification will not have chased the Magic Village yet. And when the boat dwellers and their friends will have cleaned the pool on the pier, they will happily flounder about in the water. In the middle of London, hidden behind some trees that are growing on the roofs of the oldest boats in the village … Continue reading
Posted in How people live in communes
Tagged alternative, alternatives, blog, bloggen, boat, city, community, compost, Europe, gardening, gentrification, green, guerilla gardening, lifestyle, London, plant, pool, produce own food, projects, raised beds, self-sustainability, sustainable, Sustainable Alternatives, urban, utopia, village
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London´s most magic village (3)
This is the perspective of London for those who chose to live where they cannot be seen by the tourist, the policeman, the businesswoman … Continue reading
London´s most Magic Village (1)
Few decades ago, this are looked quite different. The industrial piers were deserted and decaying … thirty years ago some of them got squatted. People restored some old boats that no one reclaimed ownership of and started to live on them around the pier. This is the birth of the Magic Village … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, boat village, borough, city, community, Europe, live, London, magig, pier, Southwark, squat, squatting, tree on boat
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Squatting for Utopia (4)
It was decided, that no violence would emanate from the squatters. As soon as the people sleeping in the attic of the house were waking up, some of them would have meetings with local politicians and/or journalists. Others would have a breakfast with self made vegan chocolate, jam and cakes all made from food, skipped with love. Then they would immediately throw themselves into organising the next workshop, welcoming guests, writing texts for the website of the project … some of the people doing so day by day almost four weeks long experienced the first burn-out of their lifetime. Continue reading
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Tagged besetztes Haus, blog, blogging, community, day to day, Europe, eviction, Gegenvorschlag, Germany, group dynamics, journalist, life, local, Mainz, modern, night, Obere Austraße 7, organise, politician, project, recent, RLP, social, squat, squatting, Sustainable Alternatives, today, try, typical, urban, workshop
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