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Blockchain is actually a fairly simple technology - or, at least, not any more complicated than anything else about modern computers - but it’s become mystified, because its biggest advocates, the people who present it to the world, aren’t techies.

I’ll have to explain the basics of blockchain before I go on, but this might serve as a good demonstration for our purposes. At its most basic, the ‘blockchain’ is a list. Like a ledger, it’s a big list of things, things like transactions. Everyone has a copy of the list, and they all agree about what’s written on it. When people want to change it, like updating it with new transactions, they have to solve a massive calculation, which takes a lot of processing power. This stops someone from just griefing it, since you have to invest a lot of computing power and electricity. If you lie, and write that someone sent you all their money, everyone else still has their copy of the list and can just ignore you. An ‘NFT’ is just a way of writing something to the list that *isn’t* a transaction - it could be a poem, a http link, or the code of a small file. This is the basis of ‘web3′.

Web3 is the concept of an internet running off of blockchain, off of NFTs. All data would be stored in that list, copied and run by any computer in the network, not just a secret, central server. It’s interesting in theory - but remember that every single update to that list costs an exponentially-increasing amount of processing power, and electricity - costs money. Every post would have a cost, every deletion. It wouldn’t just be a fixed cost either, it’s all crypto: it would vary, be speculated on by investors. Given how much our lives have already moved online, it would be the financialisation of daily life. Every text to a friend would be a microscopic trade of stocks. Your medical records would have a market price, a stock ticker. This is compounded with the fact that only the rich could afford the processing power to solve the calculations - or the storage space to even host the list, terabytes large.

In Postcapitalism, Paul Mason writes that capitalism is pushed to its limits by a means of production - infotech - that fundamentally exceeds capitalist relations of production. With digital information, by virtue of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (or, these days, Right Click > Save), the labour cost of a given PDF or MP3 is virtually zero. Every printed book takes labour and a factory to make, but every copied PDF is functionally free. To keep the value of information-goods, ‘intangible assets’, from falling to zero, a prospective “infocapitalism” would have to do more than just enforce strict anti-piracy and DRM, it would have to “take this to its extremes, creating new forms of person-to-person micro-services, paid for using micro-payments, and mainly in the private sector.” Every action would need to be a transaction, “it would have to maximize the capture of externalities by corporations. Every interaction – between producer and consumer, consumer and consumer, friend and friend – would need to be mined for value.”

Web3, the concept of an internet based on blockchain, and a life based on the internet, is the attempt for ‘infocapitalism’. It’s capitalism’s last-ditch effort to tame a technology that’s grown bigger than it. This is why it’s biggest proponents aren’t techies - they’re finance people. They don’t know how a computer works, but they do know that extending finance to the whole internet, turning your life into a stock to be speculated on, would make a lot of money.

[williamemcknight]

BALI Awards’ Principal, Special and Grand Winners 2017

The BALI National Landscape Awards are designed to showcase the highest levels of professionalism attained by BALI members each year. The event is now in its 41st year and is the largest landscaping awards scheme in Europe. A member of the independent judging panel of leading landscaping experts visits each award entry and the judges convene for final panel adjudication in late August. There are several categories covering domestic, commercial, grounds maintenance and interior projects, plus an International Award, and awards for Affiliate Exceptional Service and Employer Excellence.

The Grand Award is presented to a BALI member whose scheme is deemed preeminent amongst the winning schemes by virtue of its complexity, project management, the exceptional quality of the workmanship, and its perfect realisation to achieve outstanding client satisfaction.

The Principal Awards are presented to BALI members whose BALI National award-winning scheme in each category is deemed by the judges, above all entries in the category, to display exemplary levels of professionalism, workmanship and client satisfaction that bring credit to the landscape industry.

This year, there were 115 entries submitted, of which, 80 individual awards were bestowed upon members earlier in the year. Now, following the conclusion of the 41st ceremony at Grosvenor House, London, 29 Principal and Special Awards were presented to members at a glittering ceremony in front of over 1,000 guests and VIP’s, as well as the ultimate Grand Award, which this year, was awarded to BALI Registered Contractor Maylim.

BALI’s Landscape House team would like to congratulate all of this year’s winners for your achievements.

The 2017 Principal Award winners are: Domestic Garden Construction – cost between £30k – £60k – sponsored by Hedges Direct Spruce Landscapes for The Eco Garden Domestic Garden Construction – cost between £60k – £100k – sponsored by Johnsons of Whixley Graduate Gardeners for Private Residence in Hatherop Domestic Garden Construction – cost between £100k – £250k – sponsored by Makita UK PWP Landscape Design for Urban Courtyard Domestic Garden Construction – cost over £250k – sponsored by Europlants UK Outdoor Creations for Private Residence in Betchworth Domestic Garden Construction – Soft Landscaping – Unlimited Cost – presented by GoLandscape NT Killingley for Private Residence in North Yorkshire Soft Landscaping Construction (Non-Domestic) Cost under £300k – sponsored by Ground Control Bowles & Wyer for St Peter’s College, Perrodo, Phase 1 Soft Landscaping Construction (Non-Domestic) Cost between £300k-£1.5m – sponsored by Todds Nursery Kingston Landscape Group for Dickens Yard Hard Landscaping Construction (Non-Domestic) Cost under £300k sponsored by Vande Moortel In-Ex Landscapes for Woodberry Down, Block 1 Hard Landscaping Construction (Non-Domestic) Cost between £300k – £1.5m – sponsored by Quinton Edwards Total Protection T/A Total Protection Landscaping for Dollar Bay Hard Landscaping Construction (Non-Domestic) Cost over £1.5 million – sponsored by NatraTex by BituChem Maylim for One Tower Bridge Community and Schools Development – sponsored by Brett Landscaping Garden Club London for Merchant Square, Floating Pocket Park Regeneration Scheme over £500k – sponsored by Rigby Taylor/Top Green Talbot Farm Landscapes for Hyde Park Parade Ground Reinstatement Works Grounds Maintenance – Free Public Access – sponsored by Harrowden Turf idverde UK for Manor Gardens Grounds Maintenance – Limited Public Access – sponsored by Toro Nurture Landscapes for Chiswick Park, Enjoy-Work Grounds Maintenance – Private, value under £50k – sponsored by John Chambers Wildflower Seed Bowles & Wyer for 18 Addison Avenue Grounds Maintenance – Private, value over £50k – sponsored by ICL Monsanto Ground Control for Lingley Mere Business Park, Warrington Registered Designers and Registered Contractors Joint Submission – sponsored by Easigrass Chris Parsons (MBALI MSGD) & James Bird Landscapes for Birch House, Sheffield Sports Grounds and Leisure Facilities – sponsored by Kubota Blakedown Sport and Play for Elite Player Performance Programme, Motspur Park Interior Landscape – Installation only – sponsored by Adtrak Planters Horticulture for Plant Wires, Orpic, Oman Green Roof Installations and Roof Gardens – sponsored by Green-tech Bowles & Wyer for Roof Terraces International Award – sponsored by CED Stone Group Ecoland Planning and Design Corporation for Raycom Infotech Office Park Landscape Renovation Design (Plaza B) Affiliate Exceptional Service – sponsored by idverde Landscapeplus Employer Excellence – Turnover under £2.5 million – sponsored by Adtrak Oak View Landscapes Employer Excellence – Turnover over £2.5 million – sponsored by Fresh Horticultural Careers Nurture Landscapes

The 2017 Special Award winners are: Special Award: Sensitive Land Restoration – presented by Thrive Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute for Landscape Renovation of Chaka Salt Lake Special Award: Design & Build – sponsored by British Sugar TOPSOIL Garden Club London for Merchant Square, Floating Pocket Park Special Award: Outstanding Charitable Contribution – sponsored by GreenBlue Urban Endrick Landscapes for Horatio’s Garden, Scotland Special Award: Best First Time Entrant – presented by BALI Chalk Fund Talbot Farm Landscapes for Hyde Park Parade Ground Reinstatement Works Special Award: Best Newcomer – sponsored by Natural Paving Products a member of the Talasey Group Spruce Landscapes for The Eco Garden

The 2017 Grand Award winner is: Grand Award – sponsored by Green-tech Maylim for One Tower Bridge