The creative gift economy ... and its limitless contents
Fellow intellectual travelers
Inspirational people in my life
James ‘Bar’ Bowen (music and political comment)
Georgina Hutchison (historical fiction)
Alison Lock (Nature poetry)
M. Valerio (Art and poetry)
Nicole Matthews (researcher on media, gender and disabilities)
More famous people who've made me think:
Kim Stanley Robinson (political science fiction)
Ursula Le Guin (novelist/essayist)
Murray Bookchin (social ecologist)
Walter Benjamin (essayist)
Gary Snyder (poet, ecologist)
Rebecca Solnit (writer, activist)
Chellis Glendinning (eco-psychologist/activist)
Hitchhiking resources
The premier hitchhiking information site is www.hitchwiki.org in multiple languages and international in advice and scope. Contains a really top drawer database of academic research on hitchhiking history here.
Pioneering research from the late 1990s by the legendary Bernd Wechner

Uplifting organisations, alternative news and political reality checks
Organisations and campaigns
Media
Media Research
http://www.glasgowmediagroup.org