[permaculture] Fwd: Permaculture TV - Our walk through a village of the Arinigata organic coffee cooperative in the Gayo region of Aceh Sumatra Indonesia near Takengon
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:16:59 -0800
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Subject: Permaculture TV - Our walk through a village of the Arinigata
organic coffee cooperative in the Gayo region of Aceh Sumatra Indonesia near
Takengon
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Permaculture TV - Our walk through a village of the Arinigata organic
coffee cooperative in the Gayo region of Aceh Sumatra Indonesia near
Takengon <http://permaculture.tv>
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*Save the Triumph Bonneville! The inside story of the Meriden Workers Co-op
by John Rosamond. *
*Foreword by The Right Honourable Tony Benn.*
There is no more famous motorcycle than the Triumph Bonneville, the Bonnie,
“the best motorcycle in the world,” and the Meriden factory producing this
icon was a personal Mecca to fans of the marque. Film stars such as Steve
McQueen visited Meriden for their Triumphs. But on the brink of what should
have been its biggest ever sales season, the BSA parent company dramatically
collapsed. The Conservative government reacted, and Norton-Villiers-Triumph
was created.
The new owners decided to close down Meriden … so the workers locked them
out.
There followed protracted political negotiations, affected all the while by
national government changes, ministers attitudes, national and international
economic conditions and, throughout all this, the world’s continuing desire
for the Triumph.
As much a study of changing sociopolitical attitudes as of an economically
traumatic time for both Triumph and the country, socialist John Rosamond’s
unique position within the workers co-operative makes this work a
fascinating account of a story never before told from the inside. The
reversal of his role from worker to chairman brought with it new
responsibilities, bringing home to him the passion that employees, customers
and dealers had for Triumph, and how that could keep Meriden from closing
and the Bonneville in production. During all these desperate struggles, the
Triumph Bonneville became the best-selling motorcycle of its class, winning
the coveted Motor Cycle News Motorcycle of The Year award at the end of the
seventies. Yet within just a few years of this, Meriden and the Bonnie were
finally gone.
All the rescue attempts, the lifesaving international orders, and the
negotiations for a reprieve with the new Thatcher government are covered
here in unique detail, as is the introduction of new models that Meriden
hoped would attract a ‘white knight’. Lavishly illustrated with
never-before-seen photographs from the personal collections of the factory’s
workers, this inside-story of Triumph’s last years at Meriden is the
definitive history of the most famous of the Tony Benn worker’s
co-operatives.
In January 2007 Lynas published *Gem Carbon
Counter*,[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lynas#cite_note-2>containing
instruction to calculate people’s personal carbon emissions and
recommendations about how to reduce their impact on the atmosphere.
[permaculture] Fwd: Permaculture TV - Our walk through a village of the Arinigata organic coffee cooperative in the Gayo region of Aceh Sumatra Indonesia near Takengon,
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