27 Sep 2011
We are delighted to announce the London launch of The Transition Companion. It will take place on Wednesday October 12th at Food from the Sky, a brilliant urban food growing initiative on the roof of the Budgens supermarket at Crouch End in London. It describes itself as “a Permaculture community garden growing food to sell in the supermarket below while providing a learning and educational space for the different part of the communities. We are growing vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and herbs grown to organic standard with children and other members of our diverse community – sold through the store 8 metres below”. We’ll be holding a lunchtime launch there from 1pm – 2.30pm. There’ll be a welcome from Food from the Sky co-creator and project leader Azul-Valerie Thome, and I’ll talk a bit about the book. Here’s a short film about Food from the Sky:
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27 Sep 2011
News about a London launch to follow very soon, but for now, here’s your very first chance to get your hands on a copy of ‘The Transition Companion’, which takes place a week from today, on Tuesday 4th October from 7.30pm. If you’re in the area, do come along, be great to see you, it’ll be a great event.
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26 Sep 2011
I loved Ed Mitchell’s post over on the Transition Network site as part of the ‘fantastic ‘social reporters’ project. There are 12 ‘social reporters’ around the UK who will be blogging in a rota, producing one blog post every day, on a subject set by a guest editor at the beginning of the week. Ed’s was called “A liminal song of thanks”, and in it he wrote:
“That’s why we’re staying up late, working on personal time, finding friends who don’t want to support this future, even though it seems unavoidable, and jamming with them, making it up as we go, sharing our personal stories, openly, our successes, our failures, our hopes, our dreams, our loves. Our vegetables. Wrestling with content management systems that aren’t as perfect as our hopes”.
Beautiful. No mention of making your own paint out of cheese though. So I thought I’d better put that right this morning.
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23 Sep 2011
As part of last weekend’s Transition Town Totnes Open Eco-Homes weekend, I visited a house in Lower Allerton that was built in the 16th century, and which has recently been making many changes to reduce its environmental impact. As regular readers will know, I have done a fair bit of cob building in my time, and have often had to deal with the question “won’t it just wash away in the rain”, a question as infuriating to cob builders as Three Little Pigs jokes are to straw bale builders. The highlight for me, therefore, of the visit to Lower Allerton, was the 500 year-old cob walls.
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22 Sep 2011
Here is the third film in the ‘Story of Transition in 10 objects’ series, this time looking at a part from an old Victorian gas lamp from Malvern. You will be able to read more about this, and many other Transition stories, in the forthcoming ‘The Transition Companion’.
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