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Portal of all things Green
Posted 28/08/08 by Matt B in the Green Moral category
I am pleased to announce the completion of The Green Moral Portal - this still experimental portal pulls news and blog posts from a number of sources and agrigates them according to topic. Most topics have sub-topics and some sub-topics have sub-sub-topics.While I did initially create the portal for my own use I have found such things too vital a tool for understanding the subject and what is being said to keep it to myself. I'll be exploring it over the next few months for sites to add to the Green Directory.
I hope others find it as usefull as I do. Feel free to make requests if I have missed out any topics of note.
We all must do our part to save the world
Posted 28/08/08 by Matt B in the Questions category
what practical suggestions can you offer on changes that make a long term difference?» Read More: We all must do our part to save the world
The word is not the endless resource you have been told it is
Posted 28/08/08 by Matt B in the Online category
Political awareness must go hand in hand with ecological awareness. As long as we maintain the myth that all we need to do is get out or drop out of "the system" we are actually helping to make that self same system stronger.The system includes the government that you had a say in electing (even if you failed to vote) and we need to remember how to tell governemnts what the opinion of the people is. Ann Pettifor seems to be thinking likewise.
... there is no real climate change movement. There is no organised effort leading society towards a legislative framework that would urgently drive down greenhouse gas emissions across the board, and begin to sequester carbon dioxide.
Green Wash
Posted 16/08/08 by Matt B in the Online category
I just found this: "9 Hypocrite Environmentalist Celebrities With Huge Carbon Footprints" and wondered if anyone could point out some confirmationary evidence to back up or shoot down this list?No More Poverty (part one)
Posted 06/08/08 by Matt B in the Urban category
If we take as a comparative society the medieval feudal system we can actually see that things rather than improving have simply changed and in changing allowed conditions for some to become worse. To justify this statement we will consider the conditions of poverty within a Feudalism Autocracy based society and compare it to the current system which is a generally Capitalistic Democracy. I will show that there are strong parallels that will allow us to consider our society from a new perspective.
Feudal Britain had a number of “working class” and poverty class levels which included the Slave, the Serf, the Peasant, the free labourer and the Artisan. The peasant and the artisan were free as were, often the free labourer. The surf and the slave were bonded to masters and were non-free.
It is tempting to consider the serf and the slave as equivalent but the serf would rightly have been able to look down on the feudal slave. A slave was effectively forced labour with minimal (if any) rights and they were not considered citizens. The surf was a bonded servant and had rights and citezenship and could expect to be cared for, housed and fed in return for his labour.
The surf had a contractual arrangement with the master that included the masters requirement to care for the surf and would often include a period of bondsmanship which might have been in lue of payment of debts. The bonded surf (and his family) would then work for the master (most often on his land).
» Read More: No More Poverty (part one)
This is Matt
Posted 06/08/08 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
I like hats.
I also like being self sufficient. Which is why I created this blog. I'm still finding my feet with this blog and so please feel free to offer suggestions.
rainwater reclamation business
Posted 03/08/08 by Matt B in the Online category
Recently someone came here with the search term "how to start a rainwater reclamation business". I have no idea what you are planning exactly but good luck anyway.Warning: Copyright is retained by the owner unless otherwise stated © Copyright 2007-2008 Matt Brown (aka "Lord" Matt) All Rights Reserved.
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