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Lots of people like:
Websites
- Multidimensional Poverty Index
- OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report launch the Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI – an innovative new measure that gives a vivid “multidimensional” picture of people living in poverty.
- Argos toy section
- browsing the toy section of the Argos website is like shooting up pure culture serum
- radar.oreilly.com
- Observations and commentary on emerging tech/culture
- wondermark.com
- To be honest I read more online comics than anything else. This is a favourite
- The17
- The17's online home.
- Arkive
- The ultimate multimedia guide to the world's endangered species.
- SeaWeb
- SeaWeb is an international, nonprofit, communications organization dedicated to creating a culture of ocean conservation.
- Epicurious.com
- Recipes, menus and food articles
- transitiontowns.org
- Communities coming together to respond to the challenges and opportunities of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
- vimeo.com
- Our favourite video sharing website.
Books
- Platform for Change
- Author: Stafford Beer
Description: How organisations work. Maybe.
ISBN: 0471061891 - Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America
- Author: Steve J Heims
Description: The invention of world we live in.
ISBN: 026258123X - Diaspora
- Author: Greg Egan
Description: My favourite hard sci-fi. Two new ways to be human in the first 30 pages, and a agoraphobic journey into physics that tugs at the heart strings.
ISBN: 1857984382 - The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Author: Joseph Tainter
Description: How sometimes, for the individuals in them, it's better for big and complicated things to not be big and complicated.
ISBN: 0521340926 - Riders of the Purple Sage
- Author: Zane Grey
Description: The original Western, where every trope you've heard of was invented.
ISBN: 0708902685 - The state of Africa
- Author: Martin Meredith
Description: Martin Meredith has written en excellent and thoughtful account of Africa's post-independence years. The book is not only well-researched but shows a familiarity with the Continent that is rare among Western commentators on Africa.
ISBN: 0743232216 - The unnatural history of the sea
- Author: Callum Roberts
Description: Marine conservation biologist Roberts presents a devastating account of the effects of fishing on the sea. Once abundant aquatic life has declined to the point where we probably have less than five percent of the total mass of fish that once swam in Europe's seas.
ISBN: 1597261025 - Until I find you
- Author: John Irving
Description: ss
ISBN: 0747579903 - East of Eden
- Author: John Steinbeck
Description: John Steinbeck's passionate and exhilarating epic, re-creates the seminal stories of Genesis through the intertwined lives of two American families.
ISBN: 8483102250 - Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
- Author: Pat Wheeler
Description: The most powerful insight into trench warfare, and the extremes to which men can be pushed, unimaginable.
ISBN: 0826453236
Organisations
- Space Makers
- What Space Makers did with Brixton Village and the community to rejuvenate the neighbourhood is nothing short of miraculous
- London Review of Books
- The London Review of Books is a newspaper, a website, a bookshop and cafe. What it means to be media today (plus I like the articles).
- BERG
- I am very happy to be part of BERG, and this is our studio website.
- The Scouts
- Ed Stafford: “often mocked but has a real place in giving young people focus, training and direction in their lives.”
- Straight Statistics
- A campaign established by journalists and statisticians to
improve the understanding and use of statistics by government,
politicians, companies, advertisers and the mass media.
- The Entrepreneurs' Organization
- The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) - for entrepreneurs only is a dynamic, global network of more than 7300 business owners in 42 countries
- Patagonia
- Environment conscious clothing brand.
- Apple
- Apple's website.
- Interface Global
- Interface is the worldwide leader in design, production and sales of environmentally-responsible modular carpet for the commercial, institutional, and residential markets, and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial broadloom.
- Be The Change
- Bringing positive change around the world for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfilment.