Vital to successful Transition is WORKING WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES, and engaging them in STRATEGIC THINKING and helping them to see their role in that. Energy Resilience Assessments offer a great tool for MEASUREMENT of the degree of a business’s vulnerability, and enables the formulation of practical solutions. This work can be a very useful part of your AWARENESS RAISING work, especially with businesses, and can also be a good way of ENGAGING THE COUNCIL.
While I was Tadelakting my bathroom last Saturday, something far more interesting was happening in Totnes town, the annual TTT Winterfest. Sara and Emilio of nu-project were there, and have done this great film of the event, giving a flavour of the different initiatives underway and of what the day was like.
Had great fun over the weekend plastering my shower with this amazing stuff called Tadelakt. Tadelakt is a traditional Moroccan plaster, a lime-based, polished waterproof plastering technique. Originally used for waterproofing cisterns, and then used for public bathing houses, Tadelakt had almost disappeared from use before being rediscovered and there is currently a revival in its use.
Backcasting is a key ingredient of the creation of an ENERGY DESCENT ACTION PLAN, and an essential companion to any process of VISIONING, if that visioning is going to stand any chance of moving beyond being fantasy. It enables clear and practical STRATEGIC THINKING and an in-depth consideration of how a new STRATEGIC LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE might become a reality.
Last week I posted one of the ‘Ingredients of Transition’ called ‘Transition Cakes’ which observed how many Transition initiatives make some kind of stunning centrepiece cake at certain key moments in their evolution. I has asked Julia Ponsonby, chef extraordinaire at Schumacher College, to give me a recipe for a good cake to make, and in the end she wrote me a whole guide to making celebratory cakes, including loads of decorating ideas too. In the Ingredient I could only use the actual cake recipe, but what she had written was far too good to waste, and she has kindly allowed me to turn it into the “Transition Network guide to making celebratory cakes” and to post it here for you to download. Happy baking.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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