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The occupation of Iraq

A leaflet from Hands Off Iraqi Oil (where there's also a poster and another leaflet)

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The bounty of Iraq

A protest photo from Hands Off Iraqi Oil

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Lawns to Gardens

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Getting acquainted with urban agriculture.

 

Related posts over at my main blog -
- Home-grown food
- Commercial foods
- Industrial agriculture
- Food, energy, water
- Suburban farmland in the United States

 

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“Watch Your (Fo)odometer!”

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“Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.”

This video offers a U.S. perspective on these issues. I found it to be well done.

 

 

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(http://tobanblack.net/blog/)

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On the farm

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A video of "David Mitchell from the Mitchell and Webb Situation"

A couple of related posts (here and elsewhere) -
- Let them eat cake
- Food, energy, and water

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March and April film series

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Council of Canadians London Chapter and London Indymedia present...

7 free film screenings:
- Beyond Good & Evil and Class Dismissed
- Smash the Medium, Liberate the Message, Volume 1
- Resistencia: Hip Hop in Colombia

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Consensus decision-making ?

A blog post about consensus decision-making -
http://mollymew.blogspot.com/2008/02/cats-meow-issues-surrounding-consensus.html
with a link to a web forum discussion about this.

Remarks from the blog post author - 
The consensus model is "an open invitation for ... personal manipulation."  "It is also totally inappropriate where the issues being discussed are of any real importance and especially where there are real political differences that don't deserve to be argued into a false oblivion, only to resurface later (often at the very second when exhausted participants finally and mercifully exit the stage of the all too long meeting). In addition to this it gives huge power to salaried 'professional leftists' and those amongst us with no jobs nor family (and with exceedingly strong bladders ie coffee drinkers are penalized)."

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The Twike

Twike photos -

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Velomobiles

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Bike race on ice

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"Toronto Ice Race '08 - Elite Rubber Class

A YouTube video 

I enjoyed it (for a minute or so, anyway).

 

The video was posted here :
"Videos about cycling and community events in Toronto. Critical Mass, commuting and other personal films about a bike and me"

 

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