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Posted by on Mar 23, 2012

First up a big thank you to all the people who have used the site up until now, we hope you like what we have done and we hope you will continue to help us all move to wards a...

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Permaculture latest

Posted by on May 16, 2012

This piece is really for people who heat their homes using fire, if you have a  wood burning stove, a cooking range, a traditional hearth or rocket stove mass heater, or are you...

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Self reliance latest

Thrifty times series: Baking your own bread

Posted by on May 2, 2012

A lot of the stuff that is sold as bread in supermarkets really should be called something else, bread the world over is flour, water and yeast, and a world of variations of this...

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Transition latest

Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor

Posted by on May 1, 2012

When ever I hear Conservative ministers here in the UK moaning on about benefit Scroungers and the cost of our social welfare structures a sudden rush of images usually comes to my...

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Recent Posts

Permaculture and Politics

For decades the Green movement has engaged in a variety of political strategies and protests to get its voice heard with a long term view of provoking our Political leaders into action to create legislation to protect the environment. During that time two things have occurred, firstly, our Political leaders have done very little and have allowed companies to...

ANOK4U2: Crass and Anarchism in the UK

ANOK4U2: Crass and Anarchism in the UK

May 18, 2012

I first heard Crass when I was 16 years old, a mate of mine had dropped off a copy of ‘Feeding the 5,000’ on vinyl complaining that is was depressing and not very punk. The first thing I noticed about this record was the bleak stark imagery and tons of information on the inside of the fold out cover, I was fascinated, I had never come across a record, or...

Thrifty times series: Grow, coppice and scavenge your own wood fuel

This piece is really for people who heat their homes using fire, if you have a  wood burning stove, a cooking range, a traditional hearth or rocket stove mass heater, or are you considering making or buying any of the above, then where you get your wood for fuel is high up the priority lost for a number of reasons, firstly trying to get hold of a supply of wood...

The Freeman movement

I first came across the Freeman movement a few years through watching YouTube videos, I became quite excited at the thought of common Law being higher in terms of authority than statute law. I watched a video where Freeman Raymond St Clair took on Court Judges and solicitors using common law methods, at the end of the video the Judge and clerks leave the...

Social class and Ecology

Social class in the UK, despite the best efforts of Politicians trying to convince us otherwise is as strong as ever in terms of the division and privileges associated with it. This piece is not about causing antagonisms between people from different backgrounds, there is enough of that sort of thing going on by the very fact that there is a class system so...

Exploring models of Education: Critical Multiculturalism

The Origin of ideas Critical multiculturalism was born out of the ongoing development of the ideas of the Frankfurt School of social research in the 1930s. Critical multiculturalism originally came into being as a means of addressing a multitude of inequalities both structural and institutional that are taking place within modern education establishments within...