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The Truth about Dishonesty


One of the world’s leading experts on human motivation and behavior explains the result of a huge piece of research into human dishonesty.

With the help of fun and consistently high quality animations from RSA Dan Ariely shows us in this film the eye opening mechanics behind the distorted rationalization of what it is to be honest, and how our economic games encourage us all to become dishonest.…

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What the Economic Crisis Really Means – and what we can do about it


I´m interested in the different approaches and views about the current crisis and how to understand it in ways that can lead to new and better opportunities.

In this video Theo Kitchener give us a tool to share with people that are unfamiliar with our economic system, oil dependency, money creation and possible ways to become more self sufficient within our communities.…

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Letter from the Marihuana State

Meet Ed and Laurie Essex — just two of the many millions whose lives were smashed by the greed of others in the Great Depression that began 2008.

They lost almost everything in the crash and have lived in remote, rural, Wauconda, WA, for the 2 years since. They make a living by helping others to get the same lifestyle.If they wanted they could now supplement their income by growing the local cash crop on public land out their back door.…

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Making a living – part 3

William Hunter Duncan lives what you might call a conflicted life.   He is an urban off-gridder in Minneapolis where he has owned a home for 6 years. He has had a variety of odd jobs whilst trying to make money as a writer, and currently works for a large bank.  his specific back-office function is paperwork to foreclose on people’s homes.  Its like the joke about the boy scout who helps an old lady across the road only to find that she did not want to cross the road.  William lives off-grid, and you could say he helps other people get off the grid -whether they want to or not.…

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Make money off-grid – ways to pay, part 2

Cam and Michelle Mather run a publishing business whilst living off-grid north of Kingston, Ontario.

They founded Aztext Press (https://www.aztext.com/) in 2003. Cam, already a working in publishing, was disappointed to find a lack of books providing information about living off-the-grid with renewable energy. At about the same time he was introduced to Bill Kemp, an expert in small to mid scale renewables, and from this partnership “The Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners”  was born.

Written by Bill and published by Cam it has  been updated and republished. In the years since, Aztext Press has published 6 more books all focused on issues around living off-grid. Now they have taken this further by writing books as well. One of which, ‘Little House Off The Grid’, details their journey to self sufficiency.…

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Yurtshire goes for gold

Yorkshire in the UK has already “won” four Olympic gold medals as sportsmen and women from the Northern county have taken the medals as part of team GB.

Now Yorkshire is vying to be known as the centre of Yurt holidays, as a former surveyor who set up a luxury camping business after being made redundant, opens a third site near the market town of Ripon.

Tom Sterne launched his third sustainable ‘glamping’ center with three yurts overlooking a small lake.…

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Facebook is History

Resentment at high handed approach – a terrible redesign, and refusal to share revenue with users are base of its problems…

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Charlotte suffers BoFAdose

Employees at Corporate HQ are familiar with the term “MyLearning” – a module contains lessons on how to behave in public when asked certain questions…

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