On the 4th May 2019, the Green Anti-Capitalist Front (GAF) held its second open assembly. Approximately seventy people attended, the majority for their first time. The assembly’s agenda was divided into two parts: the first focusing on clarifying the aims and principles of GAF, reflecting on past …
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Hi-fi & TV store Richer Sounds moves to employee ownership.
Looks like it’s an employee stock ownership plan rather than a co-op model so the headline about ‘handing over control’ seems a bit wrong? Not an expert, any coop gurus know the details?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/14/richer-sounds-staff-julian-richer
#EmployeeOwnership
Calum Ryan (calumryan.com)Chuffed there’s at least one of the @HWCLondon community at every IndieWebCamp this month. @voss in Düsseldorf, @loopdouble in Utrecht and last weekend I was in Berlin https://calumryan.com/blog/indiewebcamp-berlin-2019/
Calum Ryan (calumryan.com)I don’t read the papers so I didn’t see it happen, but apparently the UN’s biodiversity report got buried in the UK press in favour of the *royal baby*.
Current global response insufficient;
‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature;
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
Most comprehensive assessment of its kind;
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
Jobs in repair, remanufacture and reuse should be part of any Green New Deal policy. They stimulate regional economies and help reduce the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of new goods.
https://therestartproject.org/news/net-zero/
#GreenNewDeal
I feel like Solid, ActivityPub with a generic server and C2S, and Indieweb, are all kind of chipping away at the same thing. You have all your data in one place (either self-hosted or someone-else-hosted) and you decide which apps you want to let interact with it.