Comments on: An Interview with Shaun Chamberlin, author of ‘The Transition Timeline’ http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:05:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dark Optimism » Blog Archive » The Transition Timeline - in detail http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62429 Dark Optimism » Blog Archive » The Transition Timeline - in detail Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:35:10 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62429 [...] for Alternative Technology scoping out Zero Carbon Britain 2, more radio interviews, and even being caught on film for the first time (more practice required [...] [...] for Alternative Technology scoping out Zero Carbon Britain 2, more radio interviews, and even being caught on film for the first time (more practice required [...]

]]> By: Bob Thorp http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62349 Bob Thorp Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:39:47 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62349 I had no probs buying TT and I'm busy inwardly digesting. So far its stimulating and imaginative and will add to the transitions momentum. However, it is also deficient in much the same area as TH: there is no coherent anlysis of capitalism. There's the odd critical comment and the nod towards the ineffectiveness of "business as usual". But, we're still left with this huge catastrophic change in the material pre-requists for "modern" society(oil and every other kind of resource depletion or overshoot) and viturally no critique of the defining organising principle of the now global epoch (c1750 onwards): private ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. Is it not private ownership of resources and assets, their concentration in fewer and fewer controlling hands and the internal logic of production for profit that is driving human society towards its fall? Is not the transition to a low carbon, more local, resilient, sustainable society also a transition to a different defining organising principle, otherwise we are locked into the old thinking, the same thinking that got us into this mess and "business as usual". I've had a go in the forum starting off the vision 2027 in this area but it needs more collaborative work, development and comment. http://transitiontowns.org/forum/topic.php?id=425&replies=10 I had no probs buying TT and I’m busy inwardly digesting. So far its stimulating and imaginative and will add to the transitions momentum. However, it is also deficient in much the same area as TH: there is no coherent anlysis of capitalism. There’s the odd critical comment and the nod towards the ineffectiveness of “business as usual”.

But, we’re still left with this huge catastrophic change in the material pre-requists for “modern” society(oil and every other kind of resource depletion or overshoot) and viturally no critique of the defining organising principle of the now global epoch (c1750 onwards): private ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Is it not private ownership of resources and assets, their concentration in fewer and fewer controlling hands and the internal logic of production for profit that is driving human society towards its fall? Is not the transition to a low carbon, more local, resilient, sustainable society also a transition to a different defining organising principle, otherwise we are locked into the old thinking, the same thinking that got us into this mess and “business as usual”.

I’ve had a go in the forum starting off the vision 2027 in this area but it needs more collaborative work, development and comment.

http://transitiontowns.org/forum/topic.php?id=425&replies=10

]]> By: Shaun Chamberlin http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62325 Shaun Chamberlin Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:18:15 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62325 Finn, not sure why Rob's link is so strange, but you can buy the book <a href="http://greenbooks.co.uk/store/transition-timeline-p-317.html?osCsid=a4p3dnbj83v145am11spj19214" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Duncan, my email contact is on the About page of <a href="http://www.darkoptimism.org/about.html#Contact" rel="nofollow">my website</a> - it's simply "shaun (at) (my website)" Finn, not sure why Rob’s link is so strange, but you can buy the book here.

Duncan, my email contact is on the About page of my website – it’s simply “shaun (at) (my website)”

]]> By: Duncan http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62295 Duncan Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:18:39 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62295 Hi, Just wanted to email Shaun but am unable to get his email address off his dark optimism website. Do you have it avaiable? Many thanks Duncan Hi,

Just wanted to email Shaun but am unable to get his email address off his dark optimism website. Do you have it avaiable?

Many thanks

Duncan

]]> By: Topics about Culture » An Interview with Shaun Chamberlin, author of ‘The Transition… http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62290 Topics about Culture » An Interview with Shaun Chamberlin, author of ‘The Transition… Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:03:17 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62290 [...] onenparle@rsr.ch put an intriguing blog post on An Interview with Shaun Chamberlin, author of â [...] [...] onenparle@rsr.ch put an intriguing blog post on An Interview with Shaun Chamberlin, author of â [...]

]]> By: Transition Timeline « Transition Town Farnham http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62288 Transition Timeline « Transition Town Farnham Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:04:22 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62288 [...] And read Rob Hopkins’ interview with the author here. [...] [...] And read Rob Hopkins’ interview with the author here. [...]

]]> By: Transition Timeline « Transition Town Farnham http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62287 Transition Timeline « Transition Town Farnham Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:00:52 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62287 [...] And read a bit more about it here. [...] [...] And read a bit more about it here. [...]

]]> By: Finn http://transitionculture.org/2009/04/01/an-interview-with-shaun-chamberlin-author-of-the-transition-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-62286 Finn Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:00:21 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2494#comment-62286 Hi I tried to order a copy of the book but the link took me to http://transitiontownwestkirby.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-joys-of-spring.html :o( Cheers, Finn Hi
I tried to order a copy of the book but the link took me to http://transitiontownwestkirby.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-joys-of-spring.html

:o (

Cheers,
Finn

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