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January 12th -food system workshop in Bristol UK

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 12:28
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January 12th, Coexist, Bristol 10:00 - 16:30

Seminar - Fairness, sustainability and human numbers - Does it add up?

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This event has now occured - listen to a podcast from the event.

13th July 2011 18:00 -20:00 St Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol, BS12AW

50 open source machines for civilisation

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 11:59
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After realising that the tools he needed for his ecological farm and settlement didn't exist yet Marcin Jakubowski set about developing the 'global village construction set'. The  Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

These blueprints for civilisation can be found published as 3d designs, schematics, videos and budgets on website Open Source Ecology - http://opensourceecology.org/index.php. This represents an incredible step into the world of collaborative innovation towards the hardware needed for sustainability.

Send a letter for Future Generations

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/08/2011 - 13:29
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We have now learned with concern that the role of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations –and its associated constitutional guarantee of environmental rights –are currently under review as part of Hungary’s ongoing constitutional reform process.  

Please join us in writing a letter to Mr Jozsef Szajer, Vice-Chairman of European Peoples’ Party (EPP) Group urging him to reflect on the loss of genuine global leadership that would result from any decision to weaken Hungary’s Constitutional provisions in relation to the right to a healthy environment and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations. (Photo by Julia Davies)

Hungarian draft constitution undermines the rights of future generations

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 13:32
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In Hungary the long term interests of the country are being endangered by a draft constitution which will abolish the right to a healthy environment and its representation via the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations. The removal of the green ombudsman’s institution is promoted by the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union in hope of increasing short term economical and administrative advantages. Sándor Fülöp, the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations explains that the draft of the new Constitution, prepared by the governing parties, would in an internationally unprecedented manner abolish the fundamental right to a healthy environment and weaken significantly the institutional protection.

Population overload? Engineering Solutions

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 11:07
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Can the worlds booming population challenges be met by engineering solutions? The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK thinks so. BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin looks at this report bringing arguments for and angainst the technical fixes proposed by IMechE.

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Projects in the CONVERGE network:

CONVERGE: Sustainable Research

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 15:05
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We want the CONVERGE project to be as sustainable as possible. We're still working out how we are going to do that, but in the meanwhile we have taken the following measures to limit our impact on the environment when we have team meetings:

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