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Values and Propaganda

Values and Propaganda

by Shaun Chamberlin | Sep 29, 2010 | All Posts, Cultural stories, Favourite posts, Philosophy, Politics, Reviews and recommendations

  I have just given an intrigued couple of hours to musing over the outstanding new Common Cause report, which explores the battle over cultural values that underlies communications and marketing, while keeping one eye always on our environmental challenges. The...
‘Grow Heathrow’ Eviction Threat!  Our support needed

‘Grow Heathrow’ Eviction Threat! Our support needed

by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 24, 2010 | All Posts, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Transition Movement

The beautifully tended squatted community garden in Sipson, Heathrow has been served a court summons for eviction. On the 1st of March this year the neglected plot on the planned site of the third runway was reclaimed, and for the last six months the Transition...
Coalition of the Willing

Coalition of the Willing

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jul 22, 2010 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Reviews and recommendations

This is a really fantastic piece of collaboration animation on the subject of responses to climate change, from the striking opening comment on Copenhagen on through. Though as the creators freely acknowledge, the ideas behind it need a little love. It strikes me that...
LSE Complexity Seminar – audio and slides

LSE Complexity Seminar – audio and slides

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jul 7, 2010 | All Posts, Peak Oil, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

The slides and audio are now available from the seminar David Fleming and I gave at the London School of Economics last week. The topic was “Transition Towns and Tradable Energy Quotas: Frameworks to support a diversity of small-scale solutions to the...
Highlights of Transition Conference Day 2 – including me just after Stoneleigh’s talk

Highlights of Transition Conference Day 2 – including me just after Stoneleigh’s talk

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jun 16, 2010 | All Posts, Transition Movement

More video clips from the Conference can be found here, and audio here (including a quick interview with me on Energy Descent Planning for communities). Edit – Indymedia have posted the audio and slides from the three hour workshop Jacqi Hodgson (Totnes EDAP...
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