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Monthly archive for January 2011

Showing results 11 - 12 of 12 for the month of January, 2011.


7 Jan 2011

Ingredients of Transition: Personal Resilience

Cllr Christopher Wellbelove, Mayor of Brixton, goes Christmas shopping with Brixton Pounds.

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The concept of resilience works on a range of levels, not just that of community resilience.  Personal resilience is vital to sustaining both our own and our initiative’s MOMENTUM (3.6) and helping us to deal with POST PETROLEUM STRESS DISORDER (1.1).

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6 Jan 2011

Unleashing of the First Transition Favela with Rap and Samba

Welcome back to Transition Culture…  You’re looking well, I hope you had a good break.  We start with a warm sunny story to bring a smile on these chilly winter days, kindly penned by May East about the Unleashing, just before Christmas, of the first Transition Favela, in Brazil.

It was a sizzling Saturday morning in December when members of the low low-income Brasilândia community of 247.000 people in São Paulo, gathered with great expectancy for the official unleashing of ‘Transixion’ Brasilândia. Led by the initiating group created earlier in May by members of the Stickel Foundation, with representatives from the arts community, environmental groups, health workers, educators, local authority the first part of the morning was dedicated to celebrate a remarkable chain of achievements.

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