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Hey all! For the Memefest2013 theme of Food Democrazy, I just wanted to share some really promising recent initiatives from Copenhagen, Denmark:

First of all there is FRESH (subtitled: The most awesome supermarket in the world)

FRESH presents itself as "a holistic concept that goes beyond the boundaries", offering the citizens of Copenhagen a living supermarket in the city. Instead of simp…

rosenbak

society education community architecture

This report is worth to read! How rapidly growing extreme wealth and inequality are harmful to human progress.
We know a lot about the subject, but there are some number which makes you really really sad and angry...

For example this:
"The top 100 billionaires added $240 billion to their wealth in 2012- enough to
end world poverty four times over."

Or this:
Over the last thirty years i…

rok

society activism community

I came along a realy great project - a set of deck playing cards made with the help of 28 illustrator all over the world.

They visualised Wall Street executives and politicians who were (and still are) the master of (financial) distaster.

http://52shadesofgreed.com/

The cards are on sale through ROCKETHUB – crowfunding engine.
Another goal of the group is to print up a 1000 ecks of c…

rok

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source: https://diasp.org/posts/1308802

Like the book on which it is based, the film consists of seven parts which explore the interconnected dynamic of global crises of #Climate-Catastrophe; #Peak-Energy; #Peak-Food; #Economic-Instability; International #Terrorism; and the #Militarization Tendency -- with a final section on The #Post-Peak World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMgOTQ7D_lk

vlax

theory society critique

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3e44e5665b7636d4b7fa2d326&id=4c9f7b2ef4&e=50fa083285

skndugan

society culture communication

https://n-1.cc/pg/bookmarks/read/1420836/a-economa-non-existe

Antonio Baños Boncompain es el autor de este texto qe según dice:

"es un libelo en el noble sentido de la palabra: una máquina propagandística que nace de la rabia y que no ofrece soluciones, sino una crítica despiadada contra la religión llamada economía, que ha hecho de nuestra civilización una de las más penosas de la historia…

vlax

theory society writing

in god we trust, the rest pay cash

source: https://diasp.org/posts/1278215

vlax

society design

one more picture debt related

meme source: https://diasp.org/posts/1267415

vlax

illustration society

"Es necesario darse cuenta de que la crisis del agua y de la agresión al medio ambiente implica revisar la manera de vivir y dejar de estar inmersos en la sociedad de consumo y en la cultura del úselo y tire."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xj17z628Bo

milenag

society culture community

La información en la sociedad mexicana es importante para poder entender los sistemas de poder que oprimen al pueblo mexicano .
Este video que es parte de una serie de videos de Vice, es una mirada inteligente que denuncia lo que los sistemas de poder desde el estado hasta la delicuencia organizada se apoderan y violentan a la sociedad mexicana.
Esta mirada es una de tantas que estaremos comp…

ethnicmx

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