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Copyright Bruce Nixon 2010. All rights reserved. This electronic copy is provided free for personal, non-commercial use only. www.brucenixon.com key changes in UK’s Climate Change Act, helped bring about the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan and the “Great British Refurb”. We need to insist governments devolve power to communities and provide the strategic support they need. The “Big Society” is an interesting idea. Read the Blog Just how Big is the Big Society? Use the government website, Your Freedom, “part of the most radical shake up of our politics for decades”. Prioritise where to put your energy and money. Focus on the issues you are most passionate about and believe will make the biggest difference. My top priorities are New Economics Foundation, Unlock Democracy/ Local Works, WDM, CND, Peace Direct, Garden Organic, GM Freeze, Greenpeace, Soil Association. Use your browser: Key Campaigns A Just and Sustainable Global Economic System ALBA- Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, Christian Aid, Climate Justice Action Network, Greenpeace, International Forum on Globalisation, Jubilee Debt Campaign, People First Campaign, New Economics Foundation, Survival International, Stop Climate Change Chaos Coalition, Via Campesina, World Development Movement and Youth forum on climate change Feeding the World Compassion in World Farming, Ethical Consumer, Food and Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, Garden Organic, GM Freeze, Soil Association, Vandana Shiva and World Hunger Project Global Governance New Economics Foundation, One World Trust, SIMPOL, Tikkun- Rabbi Michael Lerner, World Development Movement (WDM) Greening the Global Economy Centre for Alternative Technology, New Economics Foundation (nef), New Green Deal Coalition, Operation Noah, Stop Climate Chaos Coalition*, (WDM), World Watch Institute New Money, Debt, Citizens Income, Fair and Sustainable Taxation, Land Value Tax American Monetary Institute, Christian Council for Monetary Justice, James Robertson – working for a sane alternative, Land Value Taxation Campaign, Scottish Monetary Reform, Tax Justice Network, Tobin Tax Institute, WDM Peace - Ending War and Violence CND, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Oxford Research Group, Peace Direct, Peace Pledge Union, Peace Tax Seven, Responding to Conflict (RTC), Rethink Trident coalition, RoadPeace – road violence Sustainable buildings, cities, communities and transport. Bioregional, Campaign for Better Transport, Centre For Alternative Technology (CAT), Coalition of Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), Keep Trade Local/Federation of Small Businesses Campaign, Local Works, New Economics Foundation, Slow Cities and Transition Towns Unlocking Democracy Amnesty International, Electoral Reform Society, Liberty, Local Works, Operation Black Vote, Unlock Democracy/2010. * Stop Climate Chaos is a coalition of more than 100 organisations and their 11 million supporters, working together for positive action. Further reading: Johnson, B, 1996, Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems, HRD. Press: Amherst, MA. A simple explanation of polarity management is on my website with other articles. Nixon, B, Making a Difference – strategies and tools for transforming your organisation.Thich Nhat Hanh, 1999, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Beacon Press. 210
Copyright Bruce Nixon 2010. All rights reserved. This electronic copy is provided free for personal, non-commercial use only. www.brucenixon.com References by chapter Chapter 1- A time of system breakdown - but also one of hope The Full Obama Interview by Joe Klein in TIME, Nov 3 rd 2008 Chapter 2- Understanding the financial crisis Channel 4, Unreported World, India Children of the Inferno, 17-4-2009, Quicksilver Media/Channel 4 Peston, R. (2008) The New Capitalism, [PDF], BBC NEWS bbc.co.uk/robertpeston (Accessed 8 December 2008) Monbiot, G, “The free market preachers have long practised state welfare for the rich”, Guardian, 30- 9-2008 Monbiot, G, The Biggest, Weirdest Rip-Off Yet, Guardian, 7-4-2009 Chapter 3- We, 6.7bn people, need to feel our fear and anger Minton A, 2009, Ground Control – Fear and happiness in the twenty –first –century city, Penguin Books Chapter 4 – We face the biggest crisis in human history – Growth is not working. A - Climate change D – Poverty MacKay, D, Sustainable Energy – without hot air, 2009 figure 20.23, page 128, and page 68, published by UIT. Also available free to download from his website for non-commercial use. More figures are available from Wikipedia MacKay, D, Sustainable Energy – without hot air, 2009 pp 129-130, Hydrogen fuel-cell cars; different forms of freight transport on page 91-2, published by UIT. Hutton, W, “Don’t let the defeatists and cynics talk down Britain’s need for speed”, Observer 2 nd August 2009 Hutton, W, Observer, 10-1-09, Of course class still matters - it influences everything we do - Minton A, 2009, Ground Control – Fear and happiness in the twenty –first –century city, page 115, Penguin Books Chapter 8 - Greening the world- what needs to be done Sachs, W, Reinhard Loske, R and Linz, M, editors, 1998, Greening the North - a post-industrial blue print for ecology and equity, Zed Books MacKay, D,2009, Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air, UIT, Cambridge, pages 212 and Plan M fig 28.1 page 214, published by UIT Chapter 12 - Feeding the world Roberts, P, 2008, The End of Food, Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report, Zed Books Ltd 211
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