Monthly archive for June 2011
Showing results 16 - 20 of 28 for the month of June, 2011.
16 Jun 2011
Yesterday I attended a conference in London organised by the University of Surrey’s RESOLVE (the ESRC Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment) called “Living Sustainably: values, policies, practices”. But before I tell you more about that, I must show you this wonderfully silly sign I saw on my way to the venue:
As one respondent put it after I posted the picture on Twitter, “had an idea: ask someone their birth date, calculate how long ago that was, there’s your body age”. Just saved you 15 minutes (plus a few quid I imagine…). I love the idea of their being a “registered official test centre”. Anyway, I digress…
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14 Jun 2011
Just over 3 weeks to go until the Transition Network conference at Hope University in Liverpool and things are falling into place. It’s going to be great. What I want to do here is to give you the latest information that I have in terms of what you can expect if you click the button to your left and book yourself a place. Imagine a sweet shop packed with the most delicious of treats, multiply that by a hundred, and if you’re interested at all in Transition, that’s what will be laid on for your delectation in Liverpool. Yes, it’ll be that good. So, let’s dive in….
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14 Jun 2011
- ‘From the Ground Up’: a Transition enterprise in Kingston, London, providing vegetable boxes to the local community.
Fiona Ward of Transition Network’s REconomy project has written the following to try and answer the question “what would a social enterprise founded on Transition principles be like? This posted is intended to stimulate discussion, so do comment below. Over to Fiona…
Why do we need this definition?
This document defines what is meant by a Transition Enterprise (TE). This definition is useful to the Transition Network because it helps us clarify:
- The kind of trading enterprises we would most like to see, as they best support the wider aims of Transition, and
- Where we should first direct our limited resources (e.g. via the REconomy project).
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13 Jun 2011
There’s so many suggestions in the mix and so much to keep in my head it’s hard to get a sense of where we are. We don’t have a clear flowing way forward – just lots of ideas to keep track of. It’s a bit like Transition before the Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP): a beautiful chaos of energy, excitement and a lot of faith that something beautiful will come out of all this. So I sifted through all the documents and created an old skool notice board – an old corkboard with coloured card, stickers and drawing pins. Seeing it visually has brought it alive and it’s naturally creating the structure for the film. Phew!
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9 Jun 2011
Here’s a guest blog from Naresh Giangrande on his recent trip to France.
Snow capped mountains and broad fertile valleys, welcome to Trieves; a region of France in the foothills of the Alps above Provence, and the host for the first major French gathering of Transition Initiatives. You won’t find Trieves on any map, and even Google seems not to know of its existence, however there is a strong local identity centred around ecological awareness, and it come as no surprise that it is the host of this, France’s first Transition conference. It is place of small holdings and many young people returning to the land.
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