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GIVING the GREEN FINGER by the More Fringe Members of Society fl Ocking to the ‘Autonomous Safe Space’, AS GUERILLA GARDENERS SET up an ECO-VILLAGE in BRISTOL
WAKE UP!! IT’S YER DIGGING FOR VICTORY.. Friday 23th April 2010 Free/Donation Issue 719 owned by drinks giant Guinness. This camp was however plagued by problems caused GIVING THE GREEN FINGER by the more fringe members of society fl ocking to the ‘autonomous safe space’, AS GUERILLA GARDENERS SET UP AN ECO-VILLAGE IN BRISTOL... resulting in personality clashes and confl icts and a fl ourishing garden, then leave it for the of interest caused by - to quote SchNEWS local community to enjoy before moving on from back in the day - “people not willing, to another piece of derelict land which needs or able, to take responsibility for their own regeneration. The camp invites all visitors to actions”. Luckily this does not seem to be come for the day or to stay for longer - so grab an issue facing the recent eco-villages. your tools and gardening gloves and get down The action of squatting unused land based to help green-up an urban wasteland. on principals of harmony with the land and FIRST IN THE KEW equality goes back further to before anyone had even come up with the genius idea of ab- The Bristol project was inspired by green- breviating ecology into a soundbite, and when fi ngered activists in London who set up an villages had composting loos as standard. The eco-village at Kew Bridge in June 2009 (See Diggers movement from 1649, a network of Bristol eco-village set up camp this week SchNEWS 677, 679, 682). This provided an communes which reclaimed land after the with huge support from local people and example of post-peak oil, sustainable, urban English Civil War, has been heralded as the activists from all around the country. -
Cities and Low Carbon Transitions
Cities and Low Carbon Transitions Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as those relating to energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large-scale reorganisation in the way societies produce and use energy. Cities are critical in this transition because they concentrate social and economic activities that produce climate change-related emissions. At the same time, cities are increasingly recognised as sources of opportunities for climate change mitigation. Whether, how and why low carbon transitions in urban systems take place in response to climate change will therefore be decisive for the success of global mitigation efforts. As a result, climate change increasingly features as a critical issue in the management of urban infrastructure and in urbanisation policies. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. Insights from the fields of urban studies and technological transitions are combined to examine how, why and with what implications cities bring about low carbon transitions. The book outlines the key concepts underpinning theories of socio-technical transition and assesses their potential strengths and limits for understanding the social and technological responses to climate change that are emerging in cities. It draws on a diverse range of examples including world cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, from North America, Europe, South Africa and China, to provide evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban contexts. -
Wum Land Development
Wum Land Development The Cabiners Association, Forest of Dean. Reviving the ancient traditions of the Forest of Dean Cabiners, by bringing low-impact development to the Forest of Dean. WUM L AND DEVELOPMENT An introduction to low-impact development planning policy and ideas for implementation in the Forest of Dean. Wum Land Party ‘Independence The Cabiners Association Betwixt Severn and Wye’. Forest of Dean, 2018. http://wum.land http://fb.com/Cabiners Wum Land Development. Low-impact planning policy for the Forest of Dean. The 'One Planet Development’ (OPD) policy, has already functioned for a number of years under the Welsh Assembly Government, with support from the One Planet Council. We propose that the FODDC use OPD as a starting point, and engage in a collaborative process, involving a broad spectrum of interested parties and organisations to adapt the OPD planning framework to the very unique conditions of the Forest of Dean, in order that Low-impact development (LID) may better serve our communities. LID is a parallel planning system which permits a variety of developments (usually farm co-ops or self-built family homes) that are linked with viable ‘land based livelihoods’. Wum Land Developments would permit simple, well functioning dwellings tied into land based livelihoods in -for example- farming or forestry, these livelihoods would provide people with liveable incomes whilst also having many other environmental, social and economic benefits for the surrounding community and the Forest as a whole. Permission is granted on the condition that the development is deemed capable of providing two thirds of the household's basic needs from the land within 5 years. -
Durham E-Theses
Durham E-Theses The Energies of Activism: Rethinking Agency in Contemporary Climate Change Activism LEE, CHARLOTTE,ELIZABETH How to cite: LEE, CHARLOTTE,ELIZABETH (2013) The Energies of Activism: Rethinking Agency in Contemporary Climate Change Activism, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6953/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 Charlotte Lee The Energies of Activism: Rethinking Agency in Contemporary Climate Change Activism This thesis is concerned with the energies of activism, and uses an exploration of the concept of „energy‟ to rethink the agency of activism, rethinking: what counts as an act, who counts as an actor, and in particular how action is produced in activism. This process of rethinking brings recent theorising around agency more broadly, specifically in relation to non-representational theory, the more-than- human, and affect, into conversation with the practice of activism. -
Guerrillas in Our Midst
Guerrillas in Our Midst: Underground Gardening and Knitting in the City A Master‟s Thesis for the Degree Masters of Arts (Two Years) in Visual Culture Lucy Elvis May 2010 Grader: Gunhild Borggreen Faculty of Humanities Department of Arts and Cultural Studies University of Copenhagen LUND UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT DIVISION OF ART HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE Guerrillas in Our Midst: Underground Gardening and Knitting in the City. By Lucy Elvis This thesis examines the impact of Guerrilla Gardening and Guerrilla Knitting (also known as Yarn Bombing) in and on the city. Examining definitions and distortions of the notions of „the vandal‟, „the activist/craftivist‟ and „guerillaisms‟ that are made via these movements illustrates an expanding notion of the „urban dweller‟. Tackled in terms of approaches, public and situationist theory, the site-specificity of these new types of activities will be proposed as ways in which the human scale can be realised amidst an environment increasingly understood on a „mega‟ scale, dominated by capitalist simulacra. Technological developments of the „information age‟ will be shown to be facilitators of activism, these two movements forming a bridge between increased virtual communication and human interaction, which result in city-wide and social movements that reach far beyond their physical limits in an increasingly „glocal‟ society. Positioned against the changing backdrop of the Street Art world is an increasing beautiful vandalism or diminutive/secretive trend in street art works; the ways in which these socially altruistic yet unendorsed urban expressions can renew the dead spaces of the metropolis are explored. This interdisciplinary study reaches beyond its roots in visual culture, touching on issues of activism, urban planning and communal creativity.