A project to re-introduce wolves into Yellowstone Park demonstrates the extraordinary interconnectedness of eco-systems.
The narrative to this film is an extract from George Monbiot’s Ted talk about rewilding
watch the full-length talk here >>
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How Wolves Change Rivers
Posted in Movement
Tagged with: Animals, Change, Ecology, Interconnection, Nature, Regeneration, Rivers, Transformation
From: Stream
Tagged with: Animals, Change, Ecology, Interconnection, Nature, Regeneration, Rivers, Transformation
From: Stream
Facing Up To Reality – and Activating The Great Turning
“It needs to be done in groups so we can hear it from each other. Then you realize that it gives a lie to the isolation we have been conditioned to experience in recent centuries, and especially by this hyper-individualist consumer society. People can graduate from their sense of isolation, into a realization of their inter-existence with all.” Interview with deep ecologist, elder and activist inspiration, Joanna Macy
Posted in Movement
Tagged with: Activism, Apocalypse, Buddhism, Ecology, The Work That Reconnects
From: Stream
Tagged with: Activism, Apocalypse, Buddhism, Ecology, The Work That Reconnects
From: Stream
Make Your Transition
The PfB Sound Blog and Soundcloud page are in development. We’ll be presenting a curated flow of DJ mixes and original productions, all produced or offered as musical responses to the PfB invitation: “What’s going on out there? What’s your journey? And how can we be free?”
While you’re waiting, check out Polarone’s ‘medicine wave’ for deep listening and embodied journeying. Make a a little space to move, turn the lights down and the sound up, and see what happens…
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Tagged with: Babylon, Freedom, Healing, Music, Techno, Transformation, Transition
From: Sound
Tagged with: Babylon, Freedom, Healing, Music, Techno, Transformation, Transition
From: Sound
The Abandoned Airport in Congo that Became a Playground
Note to the future: what do we do with the mess of disused airports full of broken old aeroplanes in war-torn lands? Ask the children! Article by Chris Guillebeau on Michael Christopher Brown’s images from Congo.
Read & View the article >>
View the images in Michael’s portfolio >>
Shamanism and the Transformative Power of Drum Meditation
All around the world, indigenous and traditional cultures have used rhythm as both the catalyst and container for the transformation of consciousness. Introduction to shamanism and the power of the drum by Gary McGee.Read >>
More Panels, Less Gadgets?
The impending doom of billions of Indian and Chinese carbon consumers is often used by climate-action stallers as a kind of “what’s the point of cutting our emissions with this coming?” Another perspective is that there might be an effective future in the middle-ground between developing-world communities using renewable energy on the one hand – and on the other, the developed-world learning a few lessons on living with “less stuff to plug in”…
Read the article by the aptly-named John Light >>>
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Posted in Movement
Tagged with: Climate Change, Energy, Renewables, Sustainable Development
From: Stream
Tagged with: Climate Change, Energy, Renewables, Sustainable Development
From: Stream
The Poverty Trap – and the Gilded Cages.
Complex, humanitarian and moving, Jim Goldberg’s seminal work overlays photographs with handwritten words – and interrogates the psychological as well as economic effects of wealth disparity. Read >>
“It’s Always a Spiritual Thing…”
“It’s always a spiritual thing…” – DJ Deep speaking about Techno, the genre he has embraced after many years as a respected figure playing and producing soulful deep house.
Take a nocturnal journey into a Parisian warehouse rave with this deep, driving live mix from the underground…
Land & Freedom – Low-Impact Building in Spain
Stories from the forgotten zones of inland Spain where people are unfazed by the apparent obstacles to sustainable living and just getting on with it… article by Robert Alcock.
Read >>
Posted in Liberation
Tagged with: Architecture, Autonomy, Community, Eco-village, Low-impact Living
From: Stream
Tagged with: Architecture, Autonomy, Community, Eco-village, Low-impact Living
From: Stream
TranceFusions
Many western electronic music-makers creating deeper, rhythm-based music have sought to connect and work with indigenous musical traditions that share a focus for trance states and spiritual awareness.
This meeting of Morrocan Gnawa musicians and Ambient & Techno music-makers brings a sometimes harmonious, sometimes uneasy, sonic dialogue between the ancient and the modern. 21st-century cultural evolution explored through sound:
Listen & watch Biosphere playing with Maalem Mohamed Kouyou >>
Read the overview & see the other sessions >>
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Posted in Sound
Tagged with: Electronic Music, Globalisation, Gnawa, Indigenous Culture, Spiritual Practice, Trance
From: Stream
Tagged with: Electronic Music, Globalisation, Gnawa, Indigenous Culture, Spiritual Practice, Trance
From: Stream
Portrait of the Global Mega-City
It is estimated that in 2008, for the first time more people globally lived in cities than in the countryside. That increase in urban population is predicted to double in the next forty years, with most of the growth being in the relatively recently industrialised developing world.
Marcus Lyon’s BRICS photographs explore these shifts by portraying the rapidly-growing mega-cities of the BRICs nations. (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
Photograph of Rio de Janeiro by Marcus Lyon
Meet the Babylonians – part 3
Iraq was the cradle of civilisation, its deserts the location of the first documented cities. Now, after decades of dictatorship, war and ongoing conflict, the reconstruction of Iraq’s crumbling cities is being masterminded by… a family business in Yorkshire using computer modelling software. Stuart Jeffries goes to meet them…
Read the article >>
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Meet the Babylonians – part 2
“If you want to understand the future of humanity – where we’re headed, who’ll be in charge, and exactly how worried you should be about that – you could do worse than begin with two unremarkable buildings, on opposite coasts of the U.S.” Oliver Burkeman probes the Google project… Read on >>
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Bamboo Bicycle Club
Urban eco-living & nature-based technology, the next level: Bamboo Bicycles…
Watch this clip and Read the Full Article ->>
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It’s Just a Ride
The late Bill Hicks offers his inimitable take on consciousness, reality and society…
The Rise of Dark Tourism
Twenty-first century capitalism excels in creating commercial opportunities from seemingly fruitless situations. The phenomenon of dark tourism seems to fuse the appeal of VR wargames, extreme sports & package holidays into a killer formula. Article by Debra Kamin.
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Techno Resistance
Techno, clubbing and pirate radio as political catalysts… Stories from B92 FM and Klub Industrija in the wartorn dissident underground of ’90s Belgrade. Article by Thomas Gorton & photography by Srdjan Veljovic
Posted in Movement
Tagged with: Belgrade, Community, Music, Photography, Pirate Radio, Resistance, Techno, Writing
From: Stream
Tagged with: Belgrade, Community, Music, Photography, Pirate Radio, Resistance, Techno, Writing
From: Stream
Meet the Babylonians
Investigative analysis by Tim Dickinson on the shadowy Koch Brothers’ empire and its extensive influence in American politics and beyond
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Chant Down Babylon
Sending out the rootical sounds of the Burning Spear to launch the PfB Stream…
