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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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Tag Archives: history
Freedom Press – books, advice and more (1)
How happy Peter Kropotkin would have been about the U.K.´s biggest anarchist bookstore is subject to historical speculation. Him and his friends founded Freedom Press of which the bookshop is an offspring way back in 1886. Since then the lifes of people involved in the bookshop and the publishing group have not ceased to be exciting: Continue reading
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Tagged advice, anarchism, anarchist books, attack, blog, blogging, bookshop, Charlotte Wilson, Colin Ward, distribution, Europe, firebomb, Freedom Press, group, history, information, Kropotkin, largest anarchist, London, media, Peter, political, political sustainablitiy, prisoner, publishing, read, resistance, revolted, squatting, support, Sustainable Alternatives, theory, U.K:, volunteer
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Tradition bordelaise – L´Athénée Libertaire: stories from an anarchist library in Bordeaux (2)
“Fifty years ago the people who would meet up here would actually make plans how to go out and take physical direct action against the state because this was a save place. Nowadays the Athénée is more concerned with “cultivating” anarchist culture” – if you know what I mean…?” … There are several ant-racism groups, loosely organised anarchists, a cooperative print shop, the anarchist library and the beer brewery cooperative who both occupy considerable parts of the building. Continue reading
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Tagged 1960ies, activism, anarchist space, atelier de Bière artisanale, blog, Bordeaux, brewery, cultivating culture, Europe, events, France, history, independent, library, line of flight, movement, physical direct action, place, resistance, save space, social centre, social centres, space, state, Sustainable Alternatives, transformation, urban
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Clockworks – the lonely squatter (2)
The lonely squatter has two dogs and although he currently does not move much away from the Clockworks he is constantly travelling…
To places where electricity is not a matter of course, where lifetime is not structured by institutions and their demands, where one wakes and sleeps in accordance with the rhythm of the sun.
There was a time, back in the 19th century when clocks were produced in the workshop in and behind the squatted house. The building itself is much-much much older though – as old as the 18th century or even older, as indicated by the wood carvings on the walls inside. Continue reading
Posted in How people live in communes
Tagged 18th century, 2010, act, ancient building, attempt, autonomy, blog, blogging, clocks, Clockworks, decay, Derby, electricity, English Heritage, Europe, event, Franklin, green, grid, history, host, lonely squatting, movement, narrative, Nottinghamshire, politics, Queen, refurbishment, self-sufficient, social function, space, squat, sustainable, Sustainable Alternatives, urban, voluntary work, workshop
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Squatting for Utopia – out of action? (7)
Behind the police blockade few hundred metres down the street everyone gathered and formed a noisy group that grew bigger and bigger with every person who got carried away by policemen. Two activist clown were cheering up the squatters playing jokes on the police. At sunrise some tears poored out of some squatter´s eyes because it became obvious that the project was over for the moment. Continue reading
Posted in How people live in communes, Political and environmental sustainability
Tagged 2012, action, activism, after, agitate, alternative, autonomous, blog, blogging, consensus, continue, culture, direct, end, engage, Europe, eviction, experience, experiment, Germany, group dynamics, history, house, little, local, Mainz, modern, night, Obere Austraße 7, police, political, procedure, sense, squat, squatting, summer, Sustainability, today, utopia
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Mainusch (1)
In a distant corner of the university campus of the student-city Mainz, Germany, hidden behind wild green bushes, there is a place called “House Mainusch”. “Mainusch” was the only family name that was written on the letter box of the small old house, when twenty years ago a group of students found the forgotten empty spot and decided to make a non-consumerist cultural centre of it. Continue reading
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Tagged 1990ies, autonomous culture, blog, blogging, campus, concerts, cultural centre, culture, free space, Freiraum, history, house, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, little squat, Mainusch, Mainz, squat, students, sustaiable Alternatives, Uni Mainz, university
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Squatting history (4)
In 2005 something happened: the inhabitants of Lu15 decided to become totally autonomous from the student union and joined the cooperative housing syndicate. They took on a huge credit to buy the house to make it a communal property. Since 2005 Lu15 started to change back … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, blog, blogging, buy, change, common, communal, commune, communes, community, cooperative housing, credit, culture, Europe, Germany, history, life, Lu15, party, people, political, property, spirit, squat, Sustainable Alternatives, syndicate, Tübingen
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Squatting history (3)
The inhabitants of Lu15 were offered to remain a self-managed and autonomous community with no risk of eviction for paying a small monthly rent to the student union. By then composition of the inhabitants of Lu15 had changed and the community decided to accept the offer. With the high fluctuation of inhabitants the cultural and political activities of Lu15 became less radical, but the cultural centre in the basement, as well as the free shop and some of the graffitis inside the house remained. Continue reading
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Tagged 1970ies, 1980ies, 70ies, 80ies, Art, authority, blog, blogging, cultural centre, culture, Europe, eviction, free shop, Germany, gift shop, graffiti, history, house, radical, squat, stencil, suqatting, Sustainable Alternatives, sustainable politics
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Squatting history (2)
You will also notice that the exterior of the house has been freshly refurbished and that the tags and the paint on it is placed carefully and consciously – just the opposite of vandalism. The new organic insulation of Lu15 was paid by the cooperative housing syndication of which Lu15 is a member. The inhabitants tried to redecorate the façade and make it look like back in the late 70ies and early 80ies when Lu15 was still a squatted house. Continue reading
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Tagged beginning, blog, blogging, caravan park, commune, community, cooperative housing, exterior, Germany, history, insulation, Lu15, network, Organic, squat, squatting, story, tag, trailer, Zelle
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Squatting history (1)
Not by accident just 15 kilometres out of Tübingen there is Germany´s oldest autonomous centre, the “Zelle”.
Our journey to Tübingen will take us to Lu15, one of the “classical” formerly squatted houses … Continue reading
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Tagged autonomous centre, cluster, commune, community, Freiraum, history, life, Lu15, politics, south Germany, squat, squatting, Tübingen, territory, Zelle
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The green district (3)
If you would have come to Vauban in the 90ies you would see a huge caravan place inhabited by people of different cultural backgrounds and ages. Small vegetable gardens used to prosper just next to the caravans, bands would play on an outdoor stage, exhibitions would take place in the squatted military barracks that the French army had left empty … Continue reading
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Tagged 90er, 90ies, autonomous, caravan place, center, centre, change, cultural centre, culture, Freiburg, french, gentrification, Germany, green, history, Ini, initiative, KTS, lifestyle, neighbor, neighbour, non-commercial, non-violent, past, quartier, social, society, squatting, SUSI, Vauban, zone
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