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What I’ve been up to
Tapeley Park, location of the XR South West Rebel Rising
I really enjoyed the XR South West Rebel Rising where I gave a packed talk on the topic Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change (video soon)
Gail Bradbrook (Extinction Rebellion) and I were in conversation on the Imaginarium stage at Shambala Festival
David Luke (Breaking Convention) and I were in conversation at Juju’s
I proposed an XR Meditators block for the Extinction Rebellion actions in October
I visited Embercombe for the first time and hope to run a retreat called Elemental Wholeness there in spring
I attended the launch event of the Psychedelic Society’s Psychedelic Ecology series
I did my CBT moped training and bought a NIU NGT electric moped
I’ve been nominated as a potential Green Party candidate for the Totnes parliamentary constituency
Switching to a plant-based diet? I made my most successful meme in some time
My plans
14-20 Sep: ISTA Level 1 in Devon
27-29 Sep: Metamodern Arts Festival (I’m almost certainly not going now as I’ve done a lot of travelling this summer but I’m sure it will be great)
4-6 Oct: Green Party Autumn Conference
6 Oct: Speaking at Fungi Fest
24-27 Oct: Apple Land Festival at Three Pools Permaculture Farm
9-10 Nov: The Psychedelic Society’s 5th birthday celebrations
What I’ve been reading, watching & listening to
Books
Alien Information Theory by Andrew Gallimore
Films
The Amazon
We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too theguardian.com
Amazon fires: the tribes fighting to save their dying rainforest youtube.com
Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest vox.com
Amazon fires: Record number burning in Brazil rainforest - space agency bbc.com
Climate crisis: More fires burning across central Africa than Amazon as global deforestation rates approach record high independent.co.uk
DAOs and blockchain
Aragon Fundraising & the return of the commons blog.aragon.black
Introducing Aragon Fundraising blog.aragon.org
dOrg Founders Have Created the First Limited Liability DAO coindesk.com
What is a DAICO, Explained cointelegraph.com
DAICO vs ICO. What is DAICO? How DAICO better than traditional ICO? medium.com
The Dai Stablecoin is a Game Changer for Ethereum and the Entire Cryptocurrency Ecosystem medium.com
Explanation of DAICOs ethresear.ch
Decentralized Autonomous Initial Coin Offering theabyss.com
How Blockchain Could Create Incentives to Protect the Environment hackernoon.com
The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media hbr.org
YouTube
Spotify
The Guardian
Dominic Cummings’ meme-generating media outrage strategy is working
Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency
It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains
Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists
The Independent
Hong Kong withdraws extradition bill as China bows to protesters
Public underestimates how bad global warming really is, study finds
Second person dies from mystery vaping-linked illness amid growing concern over safety
Elsewhere
Why this activist is calling for the mass ingestion of psychedelics bigthink.com
The Remain alliance that could spoil Boris Johnson’s party blogs.spectator.co.uk
Between the Devil and the Green New Deal communemag.com
What is The Debt Collective? debtcollective.org
Dominic Cummings's Blog dominiccummings.com
Canada Now Has Psilocybin Dispensaries doubleblindmag.com
Dynamicland dynamicland.org
Fantastic Fungi film fantasticfungi.com
This Revolutionary Blast Furnace Vaporizes Trash and Turns It into Clean Energy (Without Any Emissions) goodnewsnetwork.org
Instagrammers Love It, But This Russian Turquoise ‘Lake’ Is Actually Toxic konbini.com
Europe’s Meat Consumption Has Dropped 20% In 3 Months livekindly.co
I Will If You Will medium.com
The ‘Political Anarchist’ Behind Britain’s Chaos nytimes.com
Sierra Energy raises funding to develop FastOx gasification technology power-technology.com
Britain’s Reichstag Fire moment prospectmagazine.co.uk
How a game of musical chairs can help explain our broken economy qz.com
Indigeneity and Belonging, By Charles Eisenstein schumachercollege.org.uk
Becoming Indigenous schumachercollege.org.uk
Fraudsters deepfake CEO’s voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000 thenextweb.com
We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin theoutline.com
Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning truthout.org
Workers Seize the Shipyard That Built the Titanic to Make Renewable Energy vice.com
Meet Alice, the battery-powered plane that could herald the age of electric air travel weforum.org
NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air - and it could feed billions weforum.org
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