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Fraudcast News one of Green Left Weekly’s books of the year

Posted on 6th December 2012

Nice to get some positive feedback on Fraudcast News from Green Left Weekly’s Mat Ward. For me, a truly great book is one that stays in your thoughts for a long time after reading it. I thought about this book daily for months after finishing it, because its main argument seems to be at the […]

Spreading the word – media training for London Transition Initiatives

Posted on 16th April 2012

A DVD of In Transition 2.0, the latest film to describe what’s up around the world of transition, recently dropped through my letterbox. What a great piece of work. It recounts what people are doing to try to meet the twin challenge of climate change and peak oil, working from within their communities. One of […]

Democracy, journalism and film nights

Posted on 16th February 2012

It’s never been easier to complain about our politicians and our journalists – neither species has covered itself in glory over the last little while. The big challenge is what to do about all the problems they leave unresolved. Rather than railing against the failures, it’s far more uplifting to investigate alternatives. This post, which […]

Marrying revolution and transition – can it be done?

Posted on 2nd February 2012

These are two apparently very different films that I see as being totally on the same page. The first How to start a Revolution, is already out, garnering jury prizes at film festivals around the world. I haven’t seen it yet but I love the book on which it’s based, From Dictatorship to Democracy. It […]