Current events in India recall an episode in Richard Douthwaite’s Indian research . . . On Saturday April 9th, social activist Anna Hazare called off his hunger strike against corruption, as the Indian government issued a commitment to draft an effective Lok Pal (ombudsman) Bill. The notification by the Ministry of Law and Justice said the [...]
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APRIL NETWORK NEWS
Posted in Co-operation, Corruption, Environment, Health, Localisation, Nuclear weapons, Political, Politics, Security, Simultaneous Policy, Transition on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
MARCH NETWORK NEWS
Posted in Community Land Trusts, Education, Environment, Food-related, Health, Localisation, Monetary reform, Peace, Political, Transport on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
News from Steve Schofield In the pipeline is a study of Menwith Hill and Steve is also starting research on BAE for a book on the growth of the UK military-industrial-complex based on the article he wrote for CAAT: BAE Systems – Public Enemy Number One. Yorkshire and the Local Sufficiency Economy, an article for the LessNet, and a [...]
FEBRUARY NETWORK NEWS
Posted in Animal husbandry, banking and finance, Co-operation, Education, Environment, EU, Events, Food-related, Green New deal, Health, Localisation, New Era, Nuclear weapons, Political, Science, UN on February 2, 2011 |
23.2.11 Geoff Tansey’s five year stint with the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) as one of their six‘Visionaries for a Just and Peaceful World’ has just ended. On 1st June 2010, an event in Brussels hosted by the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS), which ‘empowers citizens and civil society with the European Union’, presented the [...]
SCREENINGS IN IRELAND, LONDON AND BRUSSELS
Posted in Environment, Food-related, Health, New Era, News, Political on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
1.2.11 Tomorrow, Cultivate, in association with FEASTA, Grow It Yourself, Transition Towns Ireland and Northern Ireland, Slow Food Ireland, Happenings, Green Works and the International Society for Ecology and Culture are presenting a special Dublin screening of The Economics of Happiness followed by discussion. Two New Era members are involved: Helena Norberg-Hodge, producer and co-director, and [...]
NOVEMBER NETWORK NEWS
Posted in banking and finance, Events, Food-related, Linked Organisations, Monetary reform, News, Political, Security, UN on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Helena Norberg-Hodge kick-started the local food movement in this country by establishing the Food Links programme which was then taken on by the Soil Association. She also helped to set up farmers’ markets in Europe, North America and Australia. With Steven Gorelick and other colleagues, Helena and John have spoken at seminars and workshops in many countries, [...]
OCTOBER NETWORK NEWS
Posted in banking and finance, Food-related, Green New deal, Monetary reform, New Era, Policies, Political, tagged Green New Deal on October 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
27.10.10 John continues his work with Simpol, still the only tool offering a strategy enabling people around the world to work together to solve urgent global problems by voting only for politicians who agree to do this. Demanding change isn’t enough; instead Simpol adopters accept collective responsibility and use their votes in a new way [...]
SEPTEMBER NETWORK NEWS
Posted in banking and finance, Events, Food-related, Good news, Health, Linked Organisations, Monetary reform, New Era, Political, tagged Community Supported Agriculture [CSA], Renewable energy, Simpol on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
29.9.10 Peter Mansfield continues his work as Director of Good HealthKeeping Ltd and an aviation medical examiner approved by the Joint Aviation Authority. In his September bulletin he writes about adventure, osteoporosis and brain-wasting diseases here * 27.9.10 John Bunzl continues to work with the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), which he founded in 1998. [...]
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