Social Ecology London

Glad to come across your group. I am not London based but would love to be kept in touch with what you are doing. I am heavily influenced by social ecology & would definitely support moves towards a wider network, a periodical or events under this banner.

fraternally,

Paul

I stumbled upon your group doing a Google search for social ecology, along with other related searches like ecopsychology, environmental sociology, architectural psychology etc.

I am an American, from Texas no less, who has been obsessed with these related domains for a number of years. I run an architecture firm, and first became interested in these area over a decade ago merely as a response to repetitive difficulties we were having with getting accurate criteria from our clients, emotional and value based criteria it turned out.

As I am not an academic, merely a lay enthusiast with a practical bent, I set about to do something about my problem.

This process led to the creation of a web-based software that combines psychological testing with architectural programming. We are just now getting it off the ground at ourtruehome.com.

The automated exercises will start coming out one at a time in the next 2-3 weeks, and before we introduce any of this the general public, we are hoping for comment and critique from folks like you who have some expertise and interest in the area.

If any of you have time to check it out, we would be honored by your comments. Right now, all that is up are the user pages…and what would be particularly useful would be critique of our actual testing tools.

As I noted, they will not be out for a few more weeks. We have a rough schedule for the launch of our exercises on the site.

Thanks, and keep up the good work. When you get to the point of having a subscription blog or on-line discussion group, I would certainly be interested in participating.

Hi all,

I am web editor for Blue and for the European Social Ecology Institute. The latter is undergoing review - a major update is overdue! 2007 looks busy for us, and we are not based in London, instead having collective members in Suffolk, Sussex, Ireland, Zagreb, etc. However, I should be able to swing an occasional visit to your meetings.

We hope to get an office / shop / centre up and running in 2007. I am in negotiation with several parties, including Island magazine and Ireland From Below website, Tim Boon Books, GenerationV and others for a site, input, and ideas.

Hope to see you around, and keep in touch! I will be swinging by Angel Alley during the next week. It is unlikely to be Thursday and if it is I will have my 7 year-old with me and a tight schedule for trains, but if possible I’ll at least show my face.

The March date looks more likely.

Hope all proceeds well with your plans!

Tim Barton

Tim

Hi you all,

nice to see your website. Hope you have some very interesting discussions in your study group. I believe what you are doing is a corner stone in radical education and invaluable for creating a popular movement and communalist organization. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to see you in March.

Sveinung from Democratic Alternative in Oslo, Norway

To whom it may concern,

I am scientific attaché at the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in London.
As part of the “Anglo-French scientific discussion seminars” spanning all domains of science, I am pleased to announce the seminar “Microgeneration and energy savings could make your building autonomous” opened to all and held at The Novartis Foundation in London on Tuesday 15th February 2007 at 6pm.
I thought that your members might be interested in attending this seminar and I was wondering if maybe you could circulate the information among them (the seminar is free, you just need to register at science_event@ambascience.co.uk). Would it be for instance possible to mention the event in one of your electronic newsletters?

Many thanks in advance for your help with this.

See the advert on our Website:
http://www.ambascience.co.uk/article.php3?id_article=1080

Kind regards,

François-Xavier

I just posted the infromation about the meeting in London on our site. Good luck to you all!

Great to see these issues being purused. We are planning a Social Ecology event in Glasgow later this year and will keep in touch for more collaboration.

in solidarity
Mike

Keep up the good work, your group seems to be thriving! Would have been great to visit your group together with Sveinung and Eirik, but I guess there’ll be more occasions…

Erik / Democratic Alternative

Thanks a lot for a very interesting seminar last weekend. I came back to Norway more inspired than I was before leaving. I hope we can create an international communalist movement together in the years to come! Hope to see you again in a better future.

Sveinung Legard, Demokratisk Alternativ for Oslo

I’d like to echo the comments by Sveinung and others above - it was a great and educative day which I enjoyed very much. Well organised and very good food too! Hope there will be other days of this kind bringing people together to discuss and debate and then act towards the kind of society we wish to see!

Fiona

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

This is an excellent website that I will spread the word about. does anyone have an recommended readings of books that they like about social ecology?

Hey Wolfe,
I reckon a good reading is Murrey Bookchin’s “Anarchism, Marxism & the Future of the Left”. The long middle chapter is a bit trying though, a long refutation of Bookchin’s critics. Bless his cantankerous cotton socks.

Also, check out Communalism- International Journal for a Rational Society at http://www.communalism.org

Stumbled on your group by accident and very grateful that I did.
An alternative to the frenzied consumerism, celebrity adoration and apathy that pervades our society…it can’t come too soon.
Good luck,
Godbluff

Safety of what is now termed social housing in the UK and need for replacements of space energy systems and power systems. The UK government has promised direct funding for what is now termed social housing although some do call it unsocial housing. It would seem very sensible to go ahead and replace ineffiecient space heating systems and install new ones that would also be safer and similarly concerning power systems-combined heat and power systems. For vulnerable people with the cuts or squeeze on care and with stressed out friends and relatives surely this is the least that the UK government can do. Or are New Labour planning to work for the fire brigade in the form of enabling fires that kill people. Wake up New Labour or get out. Climate denial and care denial?

We just posted a piece about Murray Bookchin at our blog http://rockandecology.blogspot.com.
We hope that you will find it interesting.

With greetings from Greece
Candiru & Aigaiopelagitis

Hi
Glad to find you, as a hippy generation person, now middle aged, I’m always complaining about the lack of utopian debate. Humanity has got to aim high. I’m involved in monetary reform which I personally believe is one the foundation blocks of radical change. I hope to come to a meeting soon.

Best regards Hugh Barnard

Hi there

I would love to come along and join the group - though as I work on a rota system I may not be able to attend every week.

I’m interested in learning more about alternatives to Capitalism and your group sounds perfect as it uses text as a basis for discussion which is right up street - being an English Lit bod.

Could you please email me with the full details of the next meet…or do I just turn up next Tuesday?

I hope to hear from you soon and look forward to coming along in the very near future.

Best wishes

Sal

Are you meeting these days? I want to come join one of your sessions.
Please send me an email.
icfitzpatrick at gmail dot com

great! social ecology is a great idea!