Freeconomy Blog - March 2008
Mon
31 Mar
How to live money-free in a city…hhhmmm
During the last few days I have been wondering about how I can life in a city and use as little money as possible. The less of it I spend, the less I need to earn and hence the more time I can devote to non-paid voluntary work, which to be honest is where my passion and heart is.
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Thu
27 Mar
A tiny beak - a beautiful little tale...
I've been talking with a lot of the people involved in different positive movements over the last week, and for some reason there seems to be a lot of tired souls at the minute. Maybe it is the change of seasons. Maybe it is the fact that this world can be tough some times for those who want to make it a bit more beautiful. Who knows?
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Tue
25 Mar
Peak Oil and why it’s not reported…and Stage 2 of Freeconomy
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Sun
23 Mar
To respond or not to respond, that is the question...
The last few days have been pretty full on for me. I knew coming back to my community in Bristol would spark off lots of question asking, but to be honest it has been amazing being back. I am a really privileged guy to have the friends I have here, who all welcomed me back with open arms and a lot of love. And it has been great talking to people who actually know me about the whole experience, as they know what the walk was about from its very conception and not its widely misunderstood version.
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Thu
20 Mar
Endings and new beginnings...
After a couple of days of recuperation in London with the amazing Sarah, we got back on the road again with a march to the march. The Stop the War Coalition, led by veteran campaigner Tony Benn, organised an huge event across 87 cities of the world, and as we were in London we thought we best make our way with the thousands of other activists to show our disapproval of the governments foreign policy.
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Wed
12 Mar
What does 'unconditional giving' actually mean?
We went to bed on Sunday night mentally prepared for the 96km trip to London, a journey I've been a bit apprehensive about to say the least! Not so much the distance, but the fact that it is such a huge place and if you get stuck out for the night there are few places to camp.
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Sat
08 Mar
Inspiration, fun on the road and some great debates...
After making the 80km hike from Hastings to Faversham with a couple of pitta breads, two tins of beans and a packet of trail mix, how glad were we to make it to an amazing organic smallholding run by a very ecological family.
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Thu
06 Mar
Actions and actors, positive media and organic living...
Aleister Crowley once said that you cannot leave Hastings, a town on the south coast of the UK, until you findrock with a hole in it. Well it felt like that for a few days, we seemed to run into one great person after the next who had a job that needed doing. It's a great place, very cultural and probably the friendliest town I've been in since setting off. We ended up spending the last two days gutting one arts studio and reorganising another, whilst staying with the beautiful people we were helping.
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Sun
02 Mar
Paper accepts all ink...
I woke up early Friday to a barrage of phone calls - a programme about the walk was due out that evening and as the BBC were promoting it on thier breakfast news, the whole media caught hold of the story. It was relentless all day and a lot of it was intended to be negative though I did my best to neutralise a lot of it by being as honest as I could be.
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