Building greater food resilience
Get your community together to grow it’s own food!
Bolton Urban Growers a community food project
a short piece explaining the work that Bolton Urban growers do as a means of working towards a localised and sustainable future.
Film: Bristol Green Capital Changing the World
Changing the world talk from Bristol Green Week, see how companies in Bristol are developing new technologies and ways of doing things.
Film: Beyond (Party) Politics – Bristol Green Week
What next for politics in the UK? Is the South West leading the way? Local politics in Frome was transformed last year when a group of Independents took over their council.
Film: Beyond (Eco) Campaigning – Bristol Green Week
Does environmental campaigning work today and what do we need to do today to move towards a better world, these are some of issues discussed in this talk from Bristol Green Week 2013.
Film: Energised communities – energy efficiency and renewable generation (research findings)
What is community energy, how can we reduce our reliance on energy through efficiency and renewables, listen to a range of viewpoints
Film: ‘Libres’: Songs of the Spanish Revolution (Pilar Lopez)
Pilar Lopez’s performances/songs about the Spanish Social Revolution of 1936 brings to life the spirit of these times and to today’s struggles in Spain.
Film: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Race, Class and Gender in the 60′s U.S.
Hillbilly nationalists were a white radical movement in the US in the 1960’s and formed part of a coalition with Black panthers amongst others.
Film: Poor Man’s Heaven: the Land of Cokaygne and other utopian visions
In a life defined by exploitation and suffering, the poor of the Middle Ages dreamed up a fantastical land of Cokaygne ; where people lived in idleness and plenty and the rich were barred.
Film: Running down Whitehall with a black flag: memories of anarchism in the 1960′s
Di Parkin was a revolutionary activist from the early 1960′s to the 1980′s, hear her story of involvement with syndicalist movements and members of Durutti amongst others.
Film: Three minutes to midnight: the women’s anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common
In this talk hear how the Greenham common women’s movement against the nuclear arms race developed and campaigned for a peaceful world.
Film: British armed forces’ strikes and mutinies in 1918-19: a radical history project for the anniversary of World War I
The forgotten history of British armed forces’ post WW1 strikes and mutinies.
Precious Water
Water is a big issues, these are some of the issues surrounding our water supply the most vital of human resources.
Films of Bristol Radical History Zone talks at 2013 Anarchist Bookfair
Find out about Armed forces strikes in World War 1, The Greenham Common Women’s Movement, Hillbilly Nationalists, The Land of Cokaygne, Spanish Civil war songs and Anarcho Syndicalists in the 1960s, in these talks filmed at 2013 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Radical History Zone, hosted by Bristol Radical History Group.
Industrial Civilisation
Can we change industrial civilisation to meet our needs.
The Community Garden Movement in Philadelphia
3 amazing community gardens in Philadelphia.
Food not Tennis Courts – Project update
Steve has an amazing community garden project on an old tennis court, find out how he has developed it.
Community and The Fallowfield Secret Garden
this is the second piece about the Fallowfield secret garden by Gavin Pate, a friend of permanent culture now
Film: Vertical Gardening
Check out this great little film of Rick’s Vertical Gardening experiments in Bolton, shows what you can do in a limited space.
Permaculture as a solution
Permaculture is a system that can develop a way of living that is sustainable and just.