Align in the Sound - New Economy Network / Radio BTL / CoCanberra

The "Transition Towns" movement emerged from the permaculture movement between 2004 and 2006, after permaculture teacher Rob Hopkins scared the hell out of himself and his class on the first day of a very long permaculture course in Kinsale, Ireland by showing a film on peak oil, and having a guest lecture by one of the worlds experts on the subject.

The class set themselves a project for the course: how do we respond to such radical threats?

Over the next few years, the transition towns movement was established, eventually settling with Rob Hopkins in Totnes, England.

It has since spread to many corners of the world, in many diverse forms.

Liam Lilly joins us today to talk about how it has manifested so far in Canberra, Australia.

Holacracy is a new method of organising businesses and other mission based organisations. It relies on clarity, and splits up unclear "jobs" into their actual functions, assigning them out to people as "roles".

Processing "tensions" keeps the whole system improving, turning problems into solutions.

Holacracy claims the ability to make workplace politics obsolete.

Hear Stefan Jenner from the Telus Institute, the Australian representative of the movement, talk to us through a tin can, and a really really long piece of string that goes all the way to Perth, WA.

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This panel explores the movement to create democratic sources of financing to enable communities to build a democratic, just and sustainable economy. It discusses the role of finance, fundamentals of non-extractive finance, and principles being used to develop a financial cooperative nationally, in close connection to grassroots front-line communities.

CommonBound is a project of the New Economy Coalition (NEC), a USA based network of 150-plus organizations including PeoplesAction, 350.org, and the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

Check out the NEC at neweconomy.net/ - they also have a great youtube site - www.youtube.com/user/Efssociety/playlists

NEC partnered on the conference with the Buffalo-based Crossroads Collective.

Filmed at CommonBound 2016 in Buffalo, NY by the Extraenvironmentalists - www.extraenvironmentalist.com - If you like Behind the Lines, be sure to check them out on youtube, soundcloud, etc. - they have some brilliant stuff.

Behind the Lines thanks NEC for permission to broadcast these recordings.

Gerry Gillespie and Mal Williams are both involved with the zero waste international trust. Gerry is also involved with resource recovery Australia, and the Majors Creek folk festivals zero waste goals.

From soil to food, then back again, living systems cycle their energy and materials. There is no such thing as waste.

The zero waste international trust is doing its best to encourage the same behaviour from human societies.

Recorded on 27 November 2009, at Trades Hall, Melbourne for the "Reason in Revolt" project - a fantastic source for the unsung history of social change in Australia. find out about them at:

http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/index.html

Reason in Revolt publish under a "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Australia License" to be found at:

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A discussion with Dave Kerin and Gabriel Kuhn on syndicalism in Australia and Sweden. It mainly focuses on the experiences of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in Australia but also makes some comparison with the case of the SAC (Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden, an anarcho-syndicalist federation). Topics include: History of the IWW in Australia; experiences of the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) with green bans (in the 1970s) and deregulation (in the 1980s); Union Solidarity - an organisation coordinated by Dave Kerin in the 2000s in Melbourne which mobilised unionists and community members to set up picket lines and other actions in support of aggrieved workers; aims, tactics and philosophy of the IWW; the principles of SAC; the relevance of syndicalism today and in the future for unionism and activism in anti-globalisation, global justice, and climate change movements; developing a worker-owned social sector; and the relationship of syndicalist unions to political parties.

A soil microbiologist, Walter Jehne is a champion of employing soils and sustainable agriculture as an abundant, natural sponge to soak in much of the excess CO2 currently floating about.

Is System Change Possible? Long-Term Strategies - with Esteban Kelly, Julie Matthaei and Gar Alperovitz.

CommonBound is a project of the New Economy Coalition (NEC), a USA based network of 150-plus organizations including PeoplesAction, 350.org, and the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

Check out the NEC at http://neweconomy.net/ - they also have a great youtube site - https://www.youtube.com/user/Efssociety/playlists

NEC partnered on the conference with the Buffalo-based Crossroads Collective.

Filmed at CommonBound 2016 in Buffalo, NY by the Extraenvironmentalists - http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com - If you like Behind the Lines, be sure to check them out on youtube, soundcloud, etc.

Behind the Lines thanks NEC for permission to broadcast these recordings.

Recorded by Jeff Nugent in Stanley, Tasmania in 1983, these recordings caught Bill Mollison in full flight.

Sadly now feeding the trees, Bill left a legacy which will linger long.

The audio on this site concentrates only on the lesser known organisational thoughts within permaculture.

To experience the full 47 hours of the original recording, go to http://www.permacultureplants.net/ and purchase the set. Other Bill Mollison recordings are available too.

Many thanks to Jeff for letting Behind the Lines broadcast these parts of the recordings.

Also check out Formidable Vegetable Sound Systems tribute to Bill at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_Texj9CD4 - its great.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Recorded by Jeff Nugent in Stanley, Tasmania in 1983, these recordings caught Bill Mollison in full flight.

Sadly now feeding the trees, Bill left a legacy which will linger long.

The audio on this site concentrates only on the lesser known organisational thoughts within permaculture.

To experience the full 47 hours of the original recording, go to http://www.permacultureplants.net/ and purchase the set. Other Bill Mollison recordings are available too.

Many thanks to Jeff for letting Behind the Lines broadcast these parts of the recordings.

Also check out Formidable Vegetable Sound Systems tribute to Bill at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_Texj9CD4 - its great.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Recorded by Jeff Nugent in Stanley, Tasmania in 1983, these recordings caught Bill Mollison in full flight.

Sadly now feeding the trees, Bill left a legacy which will linger long.

The audio on this site concentrates only on the lesser known organisational thoughts within permaculture.

To experience the full 47 hours of the original recording, go to http://www.permacultureplants.net/ and purchase the set. Other Bill Mollison recordings are available too.

Many thanks to Jeff for letting Behind the Lines broadcast these parts of the recordings.

Also check out Formidable Vegetable Sound Systems tribute to Bill at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_Texj9CD4 - its great.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.