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• Write to your MEP about mining transparency
  A few weeks ago I wrote about Tearfund’s Unearth the Truth campaign, which calls for transparency in the extractive industries in developing countries. Unless mining companies are forced to disclose how much they pay for mining rights, people have no way to keep the government accountable. Revenues from mining or drilling can vanish, and local [...]
• Top ten social documentary cliches
  I’ve seen quite a few social documentaries in my time. We show awareness raising films in Transition Towns, and there are some really great, thought-provoking, well crafted documentaries out there. And then there are some very bad ones. Digital video production has made film-making possible (if not advisable, or profitable) for almost anyone. But makin […]
• What we learned this week
  How do you think the EU is handling its foreign relations? It just got its report card. (Warning – probably an international relations geekery link) I’m familiar with Slow Food, but I hadn’t heard of Slow Finance. David Boyle introduces it here. There are plenty of activists opposing Britain’s high speed rail plans. As far [...]