Source: Look, no lithium! First rechargeable proton battery created | Technology | The Guardian

It is believed that Bord na Mona is working with the Department of Agriculture to set up a new grant scheme to promote willow (energy) crops. Source: New grant scheme to grow willow as an energy crop on the way? – Agriland

Source: Light Phone 2: A ‘dumb phone’ for curing app addiction

Source: No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? | Society | The Guardian

Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. “Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage,” Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. “Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. … It teaches students not to be […]

    direct action news including reports and features from anti-globalisation protests, Mayday protests, J18, genetics, reclaim the streets, SchNEWS, direct action listings and more Source: 15 reasons to be angry

Jadav Payeng has been planting trees for several decades to help protect Majuli from erosion. Source: Could planting trees save the world’s largest river island? – BBC News

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19-year old Tom Bates couldn’t afford to rent or buy in Bristol, so he found a compact alternative. Source: How to bag your first home for £550 – BBC News

Source: Council Estate Permaculture: creating a resilient productive garden on a compacted lawn | Blog

Source: Easy Tesla Coil!: 6 Steps (with Pictures)

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Some even went so far as to suggest it was an intentional choice to try to do Scotland down but, as former National columnist Angry Salmond noted, “the notion that they’ve turned the weathermen against us seems unlikely.” Source: Scotland is now ‘finally’ the right size on BBC’s new weather map | The National

Source: The History of Women’s Rights – Online Course

Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Source: John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music | Open Culture

put a voltage of 2.73V + (X * 0.01V) where X is the temperature in degrees Celcius. The analogRead command digitises this analogue voltage to a whole number in the range 0 to 1023 with 0 corresponding to 0.00V and 1023 corresponding to 5.00V. Source: Arduino Solar Water Heating Pump Controller Design and Code | […]

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Source: Loomio and the problem of deliberation | openDemocracy

Source: Loomio – Better decisions together

http://fortune.com/2017/07/25/bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-predictions/

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in that way harm reduction challenges what our society typically means by healthy, well, and quality of life by asserting that those things don’t automatically or inherently exclude drug use. Source: How Harm Reduction Helps Me Heal: Moving Beyond Traditional Ideas of Recovery

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Source: 27 Borderline Genius Ideas For Anyone Who Camps With Their Car

A video showing desert critters secretly filmed approaching a water bucket to quench their thirst is going viral. We see different creatures, from bees, to chickens, to a donkey and a rabbit. The video was uploaded by John Wells from The Field Lab, a Southwest Texas alternative energy and sustainable living field laboratory. Source: Guy […]

A trickle-down ecosystem. Source: The culling of Australia’s dingoes is having a strange effect on plant life – ScienceAlert

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Source: 10 facts the government doesn’t want you to know about Syria | Ian Sinclair journalism

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Source: Gardening is the best medicine for the mind | Life and style | The Guardian

Source: Videos :: Geoff Lawton Online – Permaculture Videos Online

Source: One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor – The Washington Post

lush food!   Source: One Pound Meals (@onepoundmeals) • Instagram photos and videos

A great short story about NVDA (Non-Violent Direct Action) as a lifestyle. Source: ‘And Then There Were None’ by Eric Frank Russell

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This evening’s dinner will be chosen purely because of the amount of washing up it will create, according to reports. Source: Choice of evening meal based purely on how much washing up it will create

Source: Redefining Consent in our Rape Culture: The Video Everyone Should See. | elephant journal

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This seems to work, after i uninstalled Facebook there was more space on my phone and i have more control over my posts.

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First they came for the travellers, and I didn’t speak up ‘cos they is pikie and stuff. Then they came for the climate camp, and I didn’t speak up ‘cos they is smelly and into all that green shit dat they go on wiv. They came for the students and didn’t say nuffing, shit man, […]

Can you imagine working for a company that only has a little more than 635 employees, but, has the following employee statistics: ‎29 have been accused of spouse abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 9 have been accused of writing bad cheques 17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have […]

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This is the piece which led to the Fitwatch website being suspended – please circulate spartacus style The remarkable and brilliant student action at Millbank has produced some predictable frothing at the mouth from the establishment and right wing press. Cameron has called for the ‘full weight of the law’ to fall on those who […]

I was at a meeting the other night for a project I have been working on.  We are in the process of looking at the feasibility of having solar panels on the roof so we get some free electricity and some money via FITS.  Unfortunately one of the directors invited 2 of his friends that […]

(this is taken and adapted from a forum post http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=661247 ) It is NOT the homeless, the cost of libraries, housing benefit, incapacity benefits, playgrounds, street lights etc etc that has made a huge hole in the countries finances. It was greed and mismanagement by the uber rich. Taking huge risks with the knowledge that […]

After sending a group message to all the members of the repeal the CJA and all laws that affect free festival,raves and living free I got this rather odd message Steve ****** > John – I dont know you, you are not on my friends list. Please do not send me any more information about […]

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made a speech where he called on the public to nominate laws to be repealed, “we will repeal all of the intrusive and unnecessary laws that inhibit your freedom.” Well, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJA) came to mind, a law that I have mentioned on a […]

I was having an out-of-body experience and almost astral-traveled away yesterday, so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guides and then the phone rang. Sensing the negative vibrations, I threw the I-Ching and checked my numerology chart, nearly having a primal, but myenergy was too blocked. So I did […]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 3 ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? WOMAN: King of the who? ARTHUR: The Britons. WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we’re all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn’t […]

A friend of mine had a problem with her ubuntu upgrade which left her machine unable to boot. Surprise surprise, there was no backups and loads of photos of the kids on the harddrive. so, after trying a few things this is what worked for me. boot ubuntu 9.10 install disk and “try ubuntu without […]

The Low Road What can they do to you? Whatever they want.. They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can’t walk, can’t remember. they can take away your children, wall up your lover; they can do anything you can’t […]

Lets start with debt, the youth of today are in debt just by being born, quite a feat considering the decision making generation of today enjoyed so many benefits of the post war era, cheap food, cheap clothes, cheap oil and have spent it all on themselves. If a young person decides to go to […]

“From the forthcoming film, THEY CALL IT ACID. The story of Acid House – the birth of Rave. The culture the Government failed to crush! Featuring over 60 interviews including the world’s top DJs and rare archive film from the first illegal Acid House parties. …”

The worst thing about ████████████ expenses is that ██ ████ have been ████████. This makes █████████ harder ██ ████ have ████████ on. They have been released in PDF format with huge sections missing, the information needs to be in XML so that people can use the data in a meaningful way. So if they wont […]

During my campaigning quite a few people have stated that a vote for the juryteam is only a protest vote. So my answer is “so what if it is?” Protest has shaped this democracy in so many ways it is hard to imagine what the UK and the world would look like without protests. Would […]

This poem arrived from the juryteam candidates mail list. it says so much, so well The party’s over its time to call it day Oh can I claim for balloons or maybe the tunes my cleaner might play My moat is clear now, I’ve flipped my house The porns not mine dear it was my […]

With these MPs and their expensive expenses claims, they all seen to be saying that they “were within the rules” but these are the people that made the rules, so why are people acting surprised that they have gold plated their lives? These claims have been deemed “not unusual” or “out of order” by Labour […]

The other day when I came second in the “one mobile, one vote” I thought that was it, the first past the post system is so ingrained into my (and the publics) consciousness, I had forgot that the primary selection was not a first past the post or a list selection process but a way […]

oh well, that was fun ! I think I lost the vote to become a MEP for scotland. (it was really close, I know of a room FULL of geeks at a LAN game texting at 11.52, cheers guys!!) I am quite gutted to be honest, I really felt like shaking the whole political tree […]

well it turns out that when the juryteam page said “one day left” what they meant was “one day and another 24 hours after that”. It turns out voting stops at midnight friday 24th april, so please phone a friend that you have not spoken to in a while, have a nice chat and ask […]