Giving up your car doesn't mean giving up luxury or freedom- you'll save time, money and discover a more regal existence without one.
… How To Be Free Tom Hodgkinson Transport Cars Bicycles Trains Walking Green Living … of owning a car? You get cabs, you hire cars, you get the train or coach, you cycle, …
He's.... wicked and he's lazy. But he's also surprisingly green. The self-proclaimed Idler on saving the planet from your armchair...
Being green is cheap and easy Tom Hodgkinson | 3rd August 2009 Comment Green Living Society tom_hodgkinson_crop.jpg He's.... wicked and he's lazy. But he's also surprisingly green. The …
As the toll of climate change rises, as the summers become hotter, we have the opportunity to link struggles for cooler cities with other progressive demands. From the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
… everyone air conditioners—like the TVs and cars promised to the working class in the … instead planting urban forests and using less cars can all help to decrease indoor and …
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden is truth, beauty and lots of good food...
… such as space travel, pharmaceuticals, cars, lightbulbs, computers, mobile phones, … So when our high streets are homogenised, our cars all look the same and everyone all does …
What is to be done about reactionary localism? How can we keep fascism out of local politics? We need to foreground democracy and interdependence over local autonomy. The latest on our series on radical municipalism from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
… in next door. By designing suburbs around cars rather than public transit, they ensured …
Loneliness, capitalist urbanisation, and ecological crisis. In this world, politics should be about bringing people together and taking control of the spaces where we live. The latest instalment from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
The promise of radical municipalism today The Symbiosis Research Collective | 25th May 2018 Comment Municipalism Ecology Climate Change Rebel Cities Bureaucracy Urbanization …
Tom partied in the fields of Somerset last weekend like the best of them, but the commercial and environmental impact of Glastonbury left a sour taste in his mouth
… an orgy of over-consumption. Thousands of cars drive there from all over the country. …
At the end of May, I went to give a talk at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival. John Bird, of The Big Issue, and I, sang songs to my ukulele accompaniment and enthused about the pleasures of thrift.
How to be free: Stepping into the ring Tom Hodgkinson | 1st July 2008 Comment Circus Corporatism Greed Festivals Art Protest Consumerism Boycotts Campaigns Consumerism Society Archive_259.jpg At the …
Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE examines how winning the election was just the first step
What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city? The Symbiosis Research Collective Aaron Vansintjan | 11th May 2018 Activism Participatory Democracy Barcelona Ada Colau Ada Colau …
Sometimes it’s good to take a peep at what the enemy is up to. I spent last weekend reading the New York Herald Tribune, and I’ll sometimes look at The Economist. Both these publications are excellent in their way – the Tribune is far superior in writing and information to The Times, for example – but essentially feed the greed of a business-minded readership anxious to figure out what is going on in the world, the better to profit from it.
How to be free: The last untapped resource Tom Hodgkinson | 1st April 2008 Comment Capitalism Wealth War On Poverty Primitivism Consumerism Free Trade UK US Consumerism Globalisation Politics And …
No more financial meltdown, poor communication and substandard food – if we ditch the middlemen and get co-operative, what couldn’t we achieve?
Between you and me... Tom Hodgkinson | 16th March 2009 Comment How To Be Free Idler Free Comment Green Lifestyle Urban Living Society Hodgkinson_March_MAIN.jpg No more financial meltdown, poor …
Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough. The latest from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
Rethinking community organising The Symbiosis Research Collective | 10th July 2018 Activism Alinsky Community Organizing Faith-based saul_alinskyap660220130.jpg Building a just, sustainable future …
Does the fight for social justice include animal liberation? Municipalist organizing can build a transformative future for all creatures.
Animal liberation from below: toward a radical interspecies municipalism The Symbiosis Research Collective | 6th August 2018 Comment Animal Rights Radical Municipalism Climate Change …