Welcome, kind reader!
Thank you for reading my (our!) book. Personally, I much prefer reading paper and ink, but I know what a pain in the neck it is to type out all those web addresses. So here they all are, organised by chapter. I hope you find/found the book and these supporting links stimulating and inspiring.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please do get in touch – this is a dialogue, not a lecture! You can always leave a comment at the bottom of this page.
All the best,
David
Introduction
- Consumers outstrip Citizens in the British media by Guy Shrubsole (OpenDemocracy, 5 March 2012)
- I’m a citizen, not a consumer by Guy Shrubsole (Shifting Grounds, 27 March 2012)
Deanna Rodger: Read My Lips
John Holloway: Opening Speech
- The CAP and Europe’s subsistence farmers by Jack Thurston (CAP Reform, 16 September 2008)
- Small Farmers are Feeding the World (Greenpeace USA)
- UN: only small farmers and agroecology can feed the world by Nafeez Ahmed (Ecologist, 23 September 2014)
- Graph, from Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century showing wealth inequality in Europe and the US, 1810-2010
- Watch an interview with David DeGraw on Acronym TV here (YouTube, 17 September 2014)
- Incarceration in the United States (Wikipedia)
- Brisbane Action Plan 2014 (G20, November 2014)
Dr Vandana Shiva: We Need to Elevate
- 2014 India–Pakistan floods (Wikipedia)
- Dispatches: How the Rich Get Richer (Channel 4, November 2014)
- Agriculture and Rural Development budget (European Commission)
- $29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bailout by Funding Facility and Recipient by James Andrew Felkerson (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, December 2011)
- What is TTIP? And six reasons why the answer should scare you by Lee Williams (The Independent, 7 October 2014)
- George Monbiot on Who Does David Cameron Really Work For? Russell Brand The Trews (E201) (YouTube, 1 December 2014)
- Coping with the food and agriculture challenge (FAO, July 2013)
Think Crisis, Think Hope
- ‘Flat-Out Disgraceful’: O’Reilly Says Ferguson Looters Dishonor Brown’s Legacy (Fox News, 25 November 2014)
- Erdogan: Turkey, Brazil hit by same conspiracy (Yahoo News, 22 June 2013)
- Home Secretary Theresa May on the 2010 student protests. Royal car attacked in protest after MPs’ fee vote (BBC News, 10 December 2010)
- Greece Profile (BBC News)
- What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe by Stephen Foley (The Independent, 18 November 2011)
- History Repeating Itself? U.S. Bombing Iraq While Jockeying to Oust Leader It Once Favored (Democracy Now!, 12 August 2014)
- A Point Of View: Why capitalism hasn’t triumphed by John Gray (BBC News, 8 November 2014)
- Merkel shuts down seven nuclear reactors by Ben Knight (Deutsche Welle, 15 March 2011)
- Icelandic constitutional reform, 2010–13 (Wikipedia)
- Revealed: how coalition has helped rich by hitting poor by Daniel Boffey (The Guardian, 15 November 2014)
- Economy Tracker: GDP (BBC, 23 December 2014)
- Here’s a graph showing the rise in consumer debt in the US (The Atlantic, September 2010)
- Brené Brown’s talk, Listening to Shame (TED, March 2012)
- Cuing Consumerism by Bauer, Wilkie, Kim and Bodenhausen. You can read the abstract online (Sage Journals, 16 March 2011)
Elevate the Commons
- Genetic use restriction technology (Wikipedia)
- Google sets Internet record with 25 percent of U.S. Traffic by Dara Kerr (CNET, 22 July 2013)
- The US-EU trade deal: don’t buy the hype by Dean Baker (The Guardian, 15 July 2013)
- The Wealth of the Commons edited by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich (2012)
- Watch Jeremy Rifkin: “The Zero Marginal Cost Society” | Authors at Google (YouTube, 15 April 2014)
Elevate Democracy
- Prevalence of mental disorders (WHO)
- One-Dimensional Man (Wikipedia)
- Read more about the “Iceland Experiment” in last year’s festival book, Elevate: Open Everything? (David Charles, 2013)
Elevate Socio-Ecological Transformation
- Democracy Now! Special 3-Hour Broadcast of the People’s Climate March (Democracy Now!, 21 September 2014)
- First self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell (J. Craig Venter Institute)
- Myth: Monsanto Sells Terminator Seeds (Monsanto)
- Unease among Brazil’s farmers as Congress votes on GM terminator seeds by Jonathan Watts and John Vidal (The Guardian, 12 December 2013)
- Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional arrangements and (de)colonial entanglements by Catherine Walsh (Society for International Development, 2010)
- Community-supported agriculture (Wikipedia)
Elevate Media and Technology
- The Asshole Problem, from Elevate: Open Everything? (David Charles, 2013)
- Wikipedia, Egypt and the mystery of the Stoke Poges Naked Bicycle Angel (David Charles, 15 April 2011)
- Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You by Micah Lee (The Intercept, 28 October 2014)
- Amazon Web Services’ growth unrelenting (Netcraft, 20 May 2013)
- French ISP Orange says it’s making Google pay to send traffic over its network by Adi Robertson (The Verge, 19 January 2013)
- Unlike Us Reader (Institute of Network Cultures)
- Society of the Query Reader, co-edited by Miriam Rasch (Institute of Network Cultures, 2014)
- Google (Forbes)
- ScareMail (Benjamin Grosser, 2013)
- Obama Asks F.C.C. to Adopt Tough Net Neutrality Rules by Edward Wyatt (The New York Times, 10 November 2014)
- Guifi
Creative Response/Ability
- E14 Response Videos (Elevate, 2014)
- Lynching in the United States (Wikipedia)
- Schlossberg + Graz (Elevate, 2014)
- Noise Music (Wikipedia)
- The Police Are Still Out of Control by Frank Serpico (Politico, 23 October 2014)
- How Banksy bailed out Russian graffiti artists Voina by Lucy Ash (BBC News, 5 March 2011)
- The ALS Association Expresses Sincere Gratitude to Over Three Million Donors (ALS Association, 29 August 2014)
New Media and Creative-Response
- Commons of the Mind – Discussion – Elevate Festival 2008 (Vimeo)
- Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (Facebook, 15 November 2013)
- Touch this: 28% rise in spontaneous ad recall with touch screen devices by Huw Jenkins (.rising, 2 April 2014)
- Temporary Autonomous Zone (Wikipedia)
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake (Wikipedia)
Research for Transition
Fair & Open IT
- Computers and the Environment (2004) edited by Kuehr and Williams
- Rebel-held mine collapses in Central African Republic, killing 25 by Crispin Dembassa-Kette (Reuters, 22 August 2014)
- Toxic Toil: Child Labor and Mercury Exposure in Tanzania’s Small-Scale Gold Mines (Human Rights Watch, 28 August 2013)
- Massacre in South Africa: Police Defend Killing of 34 Striking Workers at Platinum Mine (Democracy Now! 21 August 2012)
- Toxic Tech: The dangerous chemicals in electronic products (Greenpeace)
- FLA probe uncovers labor issues within Apple’s supply chain by Chris DiMarco (Inside Counsel, 18 August 2014)
- Samsung finds child labor in supply chain by Rich Steeves (Inside Counsel, 15 July 2014)
- You can see the whole of Nager IT’s supply chain here
- Vendor Relationship Management (Wikipedia)
- GNU General Public License (Wikipedia)
Reality is the Next Big Thing: Keynote
- Facebook emotion experiment sparks criticism (BBC News, 30 June 2014)
- Analysis: Glass-Steagall: A Price Worth Paying? (BBC Radio 4, 1 February 2010)
- Dark Google by Shoshana Zuboff (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 April 2014)
Reality is the Next Big Thing: Debate
- NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill (The Guardian, 7 June 2013)
- Terms and Conditions May Apply by Cullen Hoback
- Apple Has Twice As Much Cash As The US Government by Tim Worstall (Forbes, 13 April 2014)
- Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems by Julian Assange (Newsweek, 23 October 2014)
- Judge OKs serving legal papers via Facebook by Marsh, Fenton and Golding (New York Post, 18 September 2014)
- The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) by James Bamford (Wired, 15 March 2012)
- Twitter Joke Trial (Wikipedia)
- Ello! PBC A Better Way (Ello, 23 October 2014)
- Google nears $7 million settlement with U.S. states over Wifi incident: source by Alexei Oreskovic (Reuters, 8 March 2013)
- Class action lawsuit against Facebook in Austria
Everything is Connected
- Nafeez’s investigative journalism project on Patreon
- Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown by Nafeez Ahmed (The Guardian, 12 June 2014)
- The Militarization of the Police by Jamelle Bouie (The Slate, 13 August 2014)
- Crisis of Civilisation (dir. Dean Puckett), based on Nafeez’s book of the same name
- Interview: Nafeez Ahmed – Elevate Festival 2014 (Vimeo, October 2014)
- Competition and Cooperation – What Needs to Change in Economics by Dennis J. Snower (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 6 November 2014)
Amy Goodman: The Journalist Connection
- Occupy Wall Street: Seriously?! (CNN, 3 October 2011)
- The resonance of Occupy by Lucy Townsend (BBC News, 24 November 2014)
- Rioters were ‘unruly mob’ claims Theresa May by Alexandra Topping (The Guardian, 18 December 2011)
- EmpathyLab
- Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers by Tim Shorrock (The Nation, 26 March 2013)
- Interview: Amy Goodman – Elevate Festival 2014 (Vimeo, October 2014)
The 2014 Elevate Awards
Overwhelming the Monstrous Bluebird
- Mobile APPeal: Exploring the Mobile Landscape by Leigh Shevchik (New Relic, 13 March 2013)
- Landlines get pricier, as callers hang up on old technology (BBC News, 1 December 2014)
- The New Multi-Screen World Study (Think with Google, August 2012)
- 1.17 Billion People Use Google Search by Felix Richter (Statista, 12 February 2013)
- Reductio ad Hitlerum (Wikipedia)
- Turkey accuses Twitter of ‘tax evasion’, calls for local office by Orhan Coskun (Reuters, 14 April 2014)
- Bradley L Garrett’s photograph of the Shard in London
- ITDMs’ Enthusiasm for Technology Comes with a Cost (Harris Interactive, 29 January 2014)
Dean Puckett: The Sengwer
- Kenya: Sengwer tribe faces eviction in the name of conservation (Survival International, 7 January 2014)
- World Bank accuses itself of failing to protect Kenya forest dwellers by John Vidal (The Guardian, 29 September 2014)
- You can watch Grasp the Nettle in full online
- Dan Gilbert introduces his research in this talk, The Surprising Science of Happiness (TED, February 2004)
- A Point of View: Happiness and disability by Tom Shakespeare (BBC News, 1 June 2014)
- The Fascinating Reason Many Billionaires Get Depressed by Shane Snow (Business Insider, 26 September 2014)
- African bio-resources ‘exploited by West’ by Andrew Buncombe (The Independent, 17 February 2006)