Jonas Bendiksen: The Places We Live

In addition to our discussions yesterday about alter-economies and population growth, an article on change observer: design observer gains insight into Jonas Bendiksen's work. Bendiksen, a Norwegian photographer, lived in slums for several months while recording and photographing daily life and people in slums around the globe.

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http://www.ageofstupid.net/

The UN climate summit will meet in Copenhagen in December 2009 to finalise the successor to the Kyoto Treaty. If the new deal is not as strong as the science demands - massive cuts in global emissions starting very soon - then it will be nothing short of a suicide pact. Right now, the most ambitious plans being put forward by any rich nation would give us a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. We think humanity deserves better.

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Social lending platforms

Following on our discussion of (alter-)economies in studio today, you may be interested to have a look at 'webank,' which investigates alternative structures of finance, from lending to currency exchange.

Also check out this Nesta-related project:
>Big Green Challenge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bloom/

Hi guys!I found this BBC website its quite funny..have a look!

This is the link to the program for the mapping. There are others around the web but this is really easy to manage and not too heavy. It is open source and... have fun!

http://vue.tufts.edu/download/index.cfm

Greens: too radical or too conservative?

A series of BBC programmes addresses whether Green thinking and practice is either too radical or too conservative to be taken up by wider publics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8308989.stm