12 Mar 2010
A Seedy Saturday in Totnes: a short film…..
Here is another great short film by the nu-project folks, this time documenting the recent Seedy Saturday event that took place in Totnes, a fantastic event. Enjoy!
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9 Mar 2010
A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
We’ve got so many wonderfully diverse and inspiring activities to show you this month…ideas for getting people involved and having fun! And they’re here for the sharing…
In the UK, TT Luton is organising a series of Grow Your Own events to relocalise food production and consumption, with discussions and a quiz to encourage people to grow their own fruit and vegetables, while Southend-on-Sea in Transition organised a day’s introduction to Permaculture with more events lined up that you’re invited to get involved with. TT Leek is getting hold of allotments and orchards so they can plant more trees and increase production of native British apple varieties, while TT Nailsea is sharing its gardening skills with other local people to increase self-sufficiency in food production, strengthen local resilience and encourage people to think more about their carbon footprints.
1 Mar 2010
A Short Film About the Totnes Nut Tree Project
Those good folks at the nu-project are going great guns, acting as ‘embedded film-makers’ in Totnes… I just wish we had had them around from the very start, what an amazing record it would have been… anyway, here is their latest, a short film about the nut tree plantings that have been taking place in Totnes this winter….
20 Jan 2010
A Celebration of Transition Town Deventer’s 2009
Paul from Transition Town Deventer in the Netherlands just sent me the link to this. Paul describes it as “a slide show of announcements, programs, photos etcetera of our activities in the first year of TT Deventer. Even though most of the visitors of Transitionculture.org won’t be able to understand Dutch, it still might be a nice illustration of what a starting Transition initiative can do”. During 2009, they held over 60 different events and activities, engaging over 2300 people. Impressive stuff….
21 Dec 2009
Editorial from Western Morning News: “Hippy Town Comes of Age”
The Western Morning News is a daily paper that covers the South West of England. Often its editorials denounce the idea of windfarms, and its letter pages are often full of climate sceptics. All the more heartening that the following editorial appeared in today’s paper, alongside a very good news piece about TTT’s DECC award. An editorial like this would have been unimaginable a couple of years ago, it is fascinating how fast things are moving. I must say though that I have lived in Totnes for nearly 5 years now, and have yet to see a carved bar of soap (see below)!
“The South Devon town of Totnes has come in for a fair bit of criticism over the years as the South West capital of the ‘alternative culture’. Listen to the jeers of its critics and you would think the average resident of the TQ9 postcode was a sandal-wearing, crystal-gazing soap carver subsisting entirely on brown rice and organic parsnips.
