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2 May 2013

An April Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

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We start this month’s Round Up with the first of two awards we’ll be giving out this month, the ‘Dedication to Transition Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Award’.  It goes to David and Mark of Transition Keynsham, who will be taking part in the Exmouth Exodus bike ride to raise much needed funds for Transition Keynsham.  The Exodus ride is an overnight bike ride from Clifton to Exmouth, a total of around 100 miles with a few hills along the way!  If you would like to sponsor them, or send them encouraging words, please click here.  Every little helps (as they say).

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24 Apr 2013

“I’m sorry … what?”: a visit to the Met Office Hadley Centre

The Met Office, near Exeter.

The Met Office, near Exeter.

The other day a friend and I took our young sons on a tour of the Met Office’s centre near Exeter.  The Met Office is home to the Hadley Centre, one of the foremost centres where climate modelling and research into climate change takes place.  It was to turn out to be an event I left both angry and puzzled, and with some reflections I’d like to share here.  The tour itself is of little consequence to this piece, other than to say that it managed to turn what could have been really interesting hour’s tour into a fairly tedious 3 hours, and certainly not a tour designed to sustain children’s interest.  The low point for me, however, was when we actually reached the Hadley Centre.  So, picture the scene …

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Categories: Climate Change, General, Storytelling


19 Apr 2013

Active Hope – How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy: webinar video

Here is the video of yesterday’s webinar which I hosted and which featured Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone.  I hope you enjoy it, and thanks to everyone who participated, logged in and who helped make it happen.  The feedback on the technology was great, and we’ll certainly be doing more of them in the near future.

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10 Apr 2013

A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Pic courtesy of NewsShopper.co.uk.

Pic courtesy of NewsShopper.co.uk.

We’ll start this month’s Round up in Crystal Palace in London, and news of the ‘Palace Pint’.  Crystal Palace Transition Town started the initiative inspire by the nearby ‘Brixton Beer’, and more than 80 people have now planted hops in their gardens as part of the scheme.  CPTT have teamed up with local brewers Late Knights in Penge, who will brew a special brew using the hops and who will also run sessions throughout the year where people can learn to brew.  Hops were also planted in the Crystal Palace Museum Garden and in the Grape and Grain pub’s Tipsy Garden (see pic above).  

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3 Apr 2013

Lynette Sinclair of Tideford Organics on the Totnes & District Local Economic Blueprint:

Lynette Sinclair runs Tideford Organic Foods on the Industrial Estate in town, and last week I visited her to ask for her thoughts on the Totnes & District Local Economic Blueprint.  Here’s what she had to say:

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