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28 Feb 2011

Ingredients of Transition: Peak Oil Resolutions

As the book deadline looms, I am finishing off the remaining ingredients… here is the one about peak oil resolutions….

The Challenge

Local and regional authorities aren’t planning strategically for peak oil, and it is not a concern reflected in their policy making.  They may not even understand it.  Without a clear statement of concern about the issue, any further steps or actions on the issue will not have a foundation.

Core Text

Getting your local Council to officially recognise peak oil as a challenge can be a key step in its moving towards resilience, and to its engagement with the Transition process.  This is an approach much more established in the US, where the first peak oil resolutions began to emerge in 2006[1].  US towns and cities that have passed peak oil resolutions include Berkeley, Chapel Hill, Cleveland, Bloomington and Nevada City

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24 Feb 2011

Transition Support Scotland’s Reskilling event

Here’s a short film about the Reskilling event that Transition Support Scotland ran at last year’s Big Tent festival.

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23 Feb 2011

The Intergalactic Health and Safety Inspectorate 6

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23 Feb 2011

An update from TTandC: exploring how to build new local economies, and visiting Mondragon, Spain.

Here is a guest post from Graham Truscott (see right, he’s the one in the middle…).

Transition Training and Consulting has been very busy lately. This is the (strictly not-for-profit) part of the Transition Network specifically designed to engage businesses and organisations in the process of transition. Businesses of all sizes have significant influence on our communities, and are themselves communities that need to be engaged if the wider economic and social transition is to be successful.

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22 Feb 2011

People Make Transition Happen: a short film from Transition Malvern Hills

I wrote a while ago about the wonderful event that was the Unleashing of Transition Malvern Hills.  I mentioned that at the event they showed a 20 minute film, drawing together some of the different work underway in the area.  That film is now online, and you can watch it below….

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