31 Mar 2011
A recent Transition Training in Chile....
It’s the end of the month again, which means it’s time to bring you a taste of the wonderful Transitioney things that have been going on around the world. We’ll start in South America with some very exciting news from Colombia where they recently held their first three Transition Trainings, and here’s a report with a few pictures. And then there’s news of Chile’s first Transition Town at El Manzano in the BíoBío Region, started by three brothers who also established the Ecoescuela where they teach sustainable lifestyles.
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16 Feb 2011
Here’s something you might find to be a useful resource. It is a study produced by Energy Cities called “Governance and Vision: Visions of Cities towards a low-energy future”. It contains a very good section on Transition in Kinsale (although they perhaps didn’t get that Kinsale is a town, not a city…). It contains several other interesting case studies, and is available to browse online in that format where the pages actually turn over before your very eyes, as well as making the sound of a turning page, a format that I still find amazing and am quite awed by.
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9 Feb 2011
Localisation and Resilience at the Local Level: The Case of Transition Town Totnes (Devon, UK)
By Rob Hopkins
475 pp. University of Plymouth, Devon, UK – Oct. 2010. £15.00; available only in PDF at Transitionculture.org.
For several years groups of innovative, environmentally conscious people worldwide have been part of a social change movement called Transition. It strives to create relocalized communities that are resilient to the looming climate and energy crises, and in which “the future with less oil could be preferable to the present.”
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3 Dec 2010
Here is the ingredient about World Cafe and Open Space. I would love to be able to weave into it your stories about when you have used them, when they worked, and perhaps even when they didn’t. Do post any thoughts as comments please…
Context
Thinking about the implications and responses to peak oil and climate change on your own can be dispiriting and lead to POST PETROLEUM STRESS DISORDER (1.1). Brainstorming tools such as Open Space and World Cafe can be a pivotal part of your AWARENESS RAISING (2.9) work, and can also give birth to a number of PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS (3.9) and to people FORMING WORKING GROUPS (2.11).
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