Manchester Permaculture Network
Manchester Permaculture Network has a new Drupal website, on which I will be posting a lot of my web content from now on.
I have set up a feed from the new web site, which will automatically generate content on permaculture on this site.
Click here to read Manchester Permaculture articles.
Stop Economic Growth - reform the monetary system
Submitted by rob on Tue, 16/12/2008 - 19:50
We live on a finite planet with finite resources, and it is obvious that there are limits to growth - limits to the rate at which the global economy can grow, and consume the world's resources. We live in an era of unparalleled economic growth, and nobody seems to be doing anything to stop it, and the Earth is being eaten alive. To save the Earth, we must stop economic growth. To do this monetary reform is desperately needed, and the video and web links in this article will tell you why.
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip, is an excellent animation which shows how untethered economic growth and consumption, are pushing the Earth dangerously close to tipping point - beyond which climate change will be devastating and unstoppable.
Radical Alternatives to a Failed Economic System
Submitted by rob on Wed, 27/05/2009 - 22:15
Last weekend I was invited, as a trustee of the Permaculture Association, to deliver a workshop about permaculture and sustainable economics, at the Radical Routes and Rootstock conference, at Conway Hall in London. The title of the conference was Practical Economics - and the general theme of the workshops was radical alternatives to a failed economic system. You can download a copy of the presentation from my workshop here on the Roblog.
Count Drax Poetry
Submitted by rob on Mon, 29/12/2008 - 19:08
Follow the links below for samples of poetry by me. More is to follow in the future, as I record and upload it. I am also hoping to make some film-poems in 2009, all being well. (If you are a film maker, and think that you might be able to help me with this project, then please get in touch.)
2008 was an interesting year for me, having performed at some memorable locations, including:
