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15 Jul 2011

Tomato anyone?

It’s Friday, so here’s something silly.  Here is a great ad (circled) I just spotted in the small ads column of my local free newspaper…

Form an orderly queue now…

 

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15 Jul 2011

Full round up of materials from the 2011 Transition Network conference

My thanks to Ed for pulling this list together.  Here are all the various videos, photos, workshop write ups and blog posts from the Transition Network conference 2011. We hope that it gives you an idea of what happened and a chance to catch some of the conversations.  Our thanks to the workshop attendees who kindly agreed to write things up, people who interviewed each other, and Charlotte Du Cann, Chris Croome, Mike Grenville, and David Wilcox who did a huge amount of recording, reporting, photographing, editing and other journalist-y activities.  This is a fantastic record of an amazing event… we hope you enjoy them. 

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14 Jul 2011

Hide Enomoto talks about Transition Town Fujino

Fujino in Japan was the 100th formal Transition initiative.  Here is a great short film where the wonderful Hide Enomoto gives an update as to what has happened there since then…

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13 Jul 2011

The evolving Transition ingredients card game

At my workshop at the Transition Network conference I tried out a new teaching tool for Transition initiatives, a deck of cards designed around the ‘Ingredients of Transition’, as set out in the forthcoming ‘The Transition Companion’.  On one side of the cards is a photo that captures the spirit of the ingredient and its name, and on the other side is the problem the ingredient is a response to and the solution it represents. 

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12 Jul 2011

Some reflections on the 2011 Transition Network conference

We had a great few days at Hope University in Liverpool.  This will not be an attempt at a complete document of that event, you will find the most comprehensive record over at the Transition Network’s conference feed.  What I am going to share, with links to some of the key pieces of media from that feed, is some of the notes of my reflections at the end of the conference.  As the event drew to a close, I went around and asked people for their brief reflections on what they saw as the character unique to this conference in comparison to others.  Three words came up again and again, deepening, focus and maturity.

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