There have now been two launches of The Transition Companion. The first took place on October 5th in Totnes Civic Hall, and the second was yesterday, on the roof of Food from the Sky in Crouch End, an amazing urban agriculture project in London. Today sees a third, our Twitter book launch! The idea is that from 2pm – 5pm today, I will be on Twitter (@robintransition), answering any questions you might have about the book, responding to any requests for signed copies, and generally tweeting about ‘The Transition Companion’ to anyone who takes an interest. The hashtag is #ttcomp. See you there.
Last week Bill McKibben was in town, and I was lucky enough to get to interview him for half an hour before his talk to a packed St. John’s Church in Totnes (which Jay Tompt reflected on here). I had asked for some questions for Bill on Twitter, and apart from the frankly bizarre “will I ever play the piano again?”, tried to weave most of the questions people sent into the interview. My thanks to Bill for finding time in his hectic schedule:
Hi Bill… great to see you… what brings you to Totnes?
The two things that bring me to Totnes are wanting to get back to Schumacher College for a little while, which is a remarkable place, especially on this 100th year of Schumacher, and wanting to get back to Totnes and see the ‘Mother Church of Transition’! (laughs).
I’m just getting ready for tomorrow’s London book launch at Food from the Sky, hope to see you there. One of my favourite stories in The Transition Companion is that of Transition Kensal to Kilburn planting a ‘community allotment’ on the platform of Kilburn underground station. Here’s a great short film, ‘Underground Tomatoes’, by Jonathan Goldberg about the project … I love this.
Here is a great new film from Transition Scotland that was designed as something new initiatives could show that would give a sense of where Transition has got to in Scotland. And rather good it is too…
This is a big week for ‘The Transition Companion’. This is the week that pre-ordered copies will be mailed out (Wednesday), the London book launch will be held on the roof of Food from the Sky in Crouch End (also Wednesday), and that we will be holding a Twitter launch (Thursday). The Twitter thing will run from 2.30-5.30pm, and will be an opportunity to ask questions about the book, request signings, discuss points in it, or whatever you like! The hashtag will be #ttcomp, and all are welcome (@robintransition). Here is this week’s Transition object film, a rather lovely one about Transition Belsize and their Draughtbusters project.
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There have now been two launches of The Transition Companion. The first took place on October 5th in Totnes Civic Hall, and the second was yesterday, on the roof of Food from the Sky in Crouch End, an amazing urban agriculture project in London. Today sees a third, our Twitter book launch! The idea is that from 2pm – 5pm today, I will be on Twitter (@robintransition), answering any questions you might have about the book, responding to any requests for signed copies, and generally tweeting about ‘The Transition Companion’ to anyone who takes an interest. The hashtag is #ttcomp. See you there.
