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I’m building a team. Do you want to help? Here’s the latest short document about the project.

The picture above gives the essential features of our vision for PlaNet Diss, a pilot project for a local sustainable and collaborative community, based in Diss, Norfolk, UK. At its centre, is ‘synergy’ people working together to provide such basic … Continue reading →

I am just so appalled at what is going on in Israel/Palestine, and the reactions to it. I refuse to take sides, even though my heritage is as a Romanian Jewish New Yorker. Taking sides is to totally misunderstand what … Continue reading →

I gave this talk to the 2023 Metaphorum conference on Saturday 10th June 2023. It builds on the talk I gave a month earlier, at the Fair Green Green Fair, but was a lot more explicit about the theoretical background. … Continue reading →

The Fair Green Green Fair: Coronation Bank Holiday Monday!

The best solutions to our energy future don’t require massive new electricity grids There is a new campaign that I’m beginning to get involved with. It builds on my early experience as Director of the Open University Energy Research Group … Continue reading →

This little 3 minute video was first published in May, in the first lockdown. My hope is that it will be used as a starting point for group discussions, by groups looking to build a new kind of future, as … Continue reading →

For much of the past year I’ve been working on a major new project, which has gone through various incarnations and working titles. It started with my presentation to Open:2018, where I was proposing that we build the Open Coop’s … Continue reading →

Here’s what I think is the confidence trick in Theresa May’s current stance. The Prime Minister claims that the deal she has negotiated is the only one possible, which may be true, but only given her ‘red lines’. If they … Continue reading →