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Here’s a pilot for a TV programme called ‘Growing Communities’, produced and directed by Sara Proudfoot Clinch which “gives you a glimpse at how to grow your own community from meeting the Transition Town Lewes group who are learning to live without fossil fuels, to community allotments, to bee keeping in the church yard, to keeping chickens in a tiny back garden of a town house”.
Here’s a beautiful film about what happens when Transition meets activism, brought a tear to my eye. Happy birthday Transition Heathrow.
Mark, who organises a very popular local comedy night in Dorchester, hands a cheque for over £1,000 to Jenny of Transition Town Dorchester in support of ‘Under Lanche Community Farm’, a TTD initiative on land leased from the Duchy of Cornwall.
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Access to land is vital to many of the practical initiatives that rebuilding your community’s resilience requires. Whether you are trying to initiate PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS (3.9) and LOCAL FOOD INITIATIVES (3.10), or whether you are thinking on a much greater scale in terms of STRATEGIC LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE (5.5) and enabling opportunities for SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP (5.2), this is an important ingredient.
I have just been looking at the online version (which is pretty restrictive, but you get the general idea) of Liam Leonard’s new book ‘The Environmental Movement in Ireland’. It offers a very well researched overview of the evolution of the green movement politically in Ireland, the rise of protest culture through campaigns such as The Glen of the Downs roads protest, the Rossport 5 and the various anti-incineration and anti-nuclear campaigns. As such, it is a very detailed and comprehensive look at those aspects of the green presence in Ireland, but it strikes me that one key part of that story is missing. So far as I could tell, there is nothing that documents the movement that was developing in parallel which focused on solutions, on practically modelling solutions, often at great personal and financial cost. This morning then, I want to take a stab at what that chapter might have included.
Permaculture students at Kinsale FEC make final changes to their permaculture design for the college grounds in advance of presenting it to the rest of the students (May 2005).
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The ability to embed good design thinking in Transition is a key tool for its success. Permaculture design offers the clearest and most practical tool for doing so, and it offers an approach that ought to underpin PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS, as well as the ENERGY DESCENT ACTION PLAN process, and also the core thinking processes of the wider initiative. Although many people associate permaculture design purely with LOCAL FOOD INITIATIVES, it ought to be seen as central to the larger process of STRATEGIC THINKING which the initiative is building up to.
