Be Libre/Resources

This page is for collecting links to knowledge resources which may help us learn what we need to in this process.

Special pages have been set up for Quotes, Images, Patterns and initiatives which offer Hope.

On this page, are links to web pages, books, articles, media, etc. which may be useful.

Freedom

 * Development as Freedom, 1999.
 * Freedom Charter
 * Text of the Freedom Charter - Kliptown 26 June 1955
 * Aligning the ideals of free software and free knowledge with the South African Freedom Charter

Software Freedom
Richard Stallman's (rms) work is all relevant:


 * Why Software Should Be Free
 * Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software
 * Stallman, Richard M (2010) . Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, Second Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 978-0-9831592-0-9.
 * Cloud Computing (which respects users' freedom).

Media

 * Free file formats

Sustainability
Sustainability necessarily integrates inter-dependencies among social, economic and biophysical factors. This section includes resources which refer to more than one of these with sub-sections for each considered separately.


 * Sustainability indicators

Social

 * Social Indicators Research
 * Quality of life

...

Human Rights

 * Wikipedia
 * Right to Play

Economic
Indicators and other resources to about how the economy works.


 * IMF
 * World Bank
 * Financial markets
 * Economic indicators
 * Wall Street

Biophysical

 * Environmental indicators of environmental health (pressures, conditions and responses)
 * Ecological indicators.
 * Conservation biology
 * Ecology
 * Modelling ecosystems
 * Community ecology
 * Minimal viable populations
 * Disturbance ecology

Ethics

 * Veganism_parable - some of the ethics underlying "being libre" are not obvious.

Animal rights

 * Animal Testing: the Good, the Bad, the Facts...
 * Wikipedia Project on Animal rights
 * Singer, P. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals, New York Review/Random House, New York, 1975; Cape, London, 1976; Avon, New York, 1977; Paladin, London, 1977; Thorsons, London, 1983. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, New York, 2009.

Etc.

 * Killing Fields: the battle to feed factory farms - related to agriculture, sustainability, human and animal rights.