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Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- Global Voices Online
- A research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.
- Pledge Bank
- A site that helps people get things done
- Kiva
- A site used to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty
- I like
- Blogspot about things ‘I like’
- MetaFilter
- This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members
- The Idler
- Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. This is the online version
- Earth First
- A “non-hierarchical organisation and the use of direct action to confront, stop and eventually reverse the forces that are responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants”
- Carrot Cake Tour
- Imagine what would happen if every visitor to the Glastonbury Festival had to earn their right of passage to see the bands on show
- Earth As Art
- View our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite
- Autonomous Geographies
- Two year action research project run jointly by geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester
- Climate Rush
- A celebration of the 100th aniversary of the suffragettes storming of parliament
Books
- The Transition Handbook
- Author: Rob Hopkins
Description: In the face of ‘peak oil’ we are shown how to create self-reliant existence.
ISBN: 978-1-900322-18-8 - Emergence
- Author: Steven Johnson
Description: When enough individual elements interact and organize themselves, the result is collective intelligence.
ISBN: 0140287752 - Here Comes Everybody
- Author: Clay Shirky
Description: The power of organising without organizations.
ISBN: 0713999896 - The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism - A Quest for Purpose in the Modern World
- Author: Charles Handy
Description: Beyond Capitalism a quest for purpose in the modern world
ISBN: 0091801680 - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
- Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Description: An explanation of social trends and an exploration of the ‘tipping point’ where ideas, trends and behaviours suddenly ‘catch on’ and spread like wildfire
ISBN: 0316648523 - Air Madness: Runways and the Blighting of Britain
- Author: Cedric Pulford
Description: Road's mistakes repeated in the skies
ISBN: 0953643050 - Hope in the Dark, Untold Stories
- Author: Rebecca Solnit
Description: Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades
ISBN: 1560255773 - Six Memos for the New Millennium
- Author: Italo Calvino
Description: Superb apology for the writing life
ISBN: 0099730510 - The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation
- Author: Thomas Homer Dixon
Description: There are ways to begin thinking about a better world.
ISBN: 978-0-285-63794-8 - Rubbish!: (Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead)
- Author: Richard Girling
Description: An exploration of rubbish, our attitudes towards it, our methods for dealing with it and the huge short falling in our attitudes toward it
ISBN: 1903919444 - Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning
- Author: George Monbiot
Description: How can we stop the planet burning? One of the best books out there looking at the reality of climate change and what we can actually do about it
ISBN: 0141026626 - Anarchism and Other Essays
- Author: Emma Goldman
Description: A collection of essays spanning the psychology of political violence, women’s emancipation and what anarchism really stands for
ISBN: 1599869896 - Anti Capitalism: A Beginners Guide
- Author: Simon Tormey
Description: Who exactly are the anti-capitalists and what do they want?
ISBN: 1851683429 - Change the World Without Taking Power
- Author: John Holloway
Description: A text ofcontemporary Autonomist Marxism
ISBN: 0745324665 - Do or Die! Voices from the Ecological Resistance
- Author: Earth First!
Description: A collection of inspiring, empowering and important stories from everything from the anti roads movement through reclaim the streets to pixie actions and monkey wrenching
ISBN: N/A - Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World
- Author: Paul Chatterton
Description: Covers everything from setting up a community garden to taking direct action, alternative media to why we are what we eat
ISBN: 978-0-7453-2637-5 - Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
- Author: Paul F. Maul
Description: A collection of essays from a group of social thinkers, philosophers and commentators, which has the feel of an underground zine or art student political rag mag.
ISBN: 097091010X
