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	<description>An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent</description>
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		<title>Responding to Sharon Astyk on Permaculture and Transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Astyk is one of the bloggers I most admire, one of the most insightful and incredibly prolific writers out there.  It was fascinating therefore to read the two articles she recently posted, Permaculture Future Part One and Part Two.  Her basic argument is that permaculture and Transition are, as we head into the Long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/07/03/responding-to-sharon-astyk-on-permaculture-and-transition/</link>
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		<title>Transition Town Tooting Win Prestigious Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roving Transition reporter and publisher of Transition Network News Mike Grenville sent the following report from an awards event in London at which Transition Town Tooting found out that they had been one of four projects selected from 178 applications to recieve funding for projects that bring art and responses to climate change together.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/07/02/transition-town-tooting-win-prestigious-grant/</link>
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		<title>Making my Questionnaire Available&#8230; perhaps you might like to use it too?</title>
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Several people have been in touch to ask whether it is possible to see the original questionnaire that I used to do the surveys from which the initial findings were presented here at Transition Culture the other day.  You can download a pdf. of the questionnaire here.  It was based, in part on questions from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/07/01/resilience-questionnaire/</link>
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		<title>What Employment Opportunities Arise from Embracing Transition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As part of the Totnes EDAP, we are creating this table (below), by way of illustrating the wealth of new employment possibilities that could be created in a community that seriously embraces the potential of Transition.  There will of course be hundreds of things we have neglected to include.  In the light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/07/01/what-employment-opportunities-arise-from-embracing-transition/</link>
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		<title>Skills, Resilience and Awareness? Initial Findings from my Survey of Totnes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the PhD that I am still pretending to be doing, I have done a survey of around 215 households in Totnes and Dartington.  I have just, through my rudimentary knowledge of SPSS ( a statistical analysis package), done an initial analysis of the data, and the findings are very interesting.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/30/the-initial-findings-from-my-survey-of-totnes/</link>
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		<title>Super Furry Animals Capture a Moment from a Post Carbon Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers will know that I am fascinated by the potential role of story as a way of enabling people to imagine themselves in a successfully transitioned world.  There has been less discussion about this in the context of songs.  It was my birthday the other day, so I treated myself to the new Super [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/</link>
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		<title>The Transition Initiative: changing the scale of change, from The Orion magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excellent piece from the latest Orion magazine&#8230;.
The Transition Initiative: Changing the scale of change
by Jay Griffiths
 Published in the July/August 2009 issue of Orion magazine
A WHILE AGO, I heard an American scientist address an audience in Oxford, England, about his work on the climate crisis. He was precise, unemotional, rigorous, and impersonal: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/26/the-transition-initiative-changing-the-scale-of-change-from-the-orion-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Going to Glastonbury?  Fancy Helping Out the Transition Stall?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling All Transitioners Going to Glastonbury!
There will be a stall at the Glastonbury Festival sharing information and experiences about Transition Towns. So far we have people from Glastonbury and Leamington. If you are also going to the festival, would you like to help out on the stall too? Please come and find us in the Big Tin Shack in the Green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/25/going-to-glastonbury-fancy-helping-out-the-transition-stall/</link>
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		<title>What Can Happen When a Transition Initiative and its Local Government Work Together: the Stroud Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I attended the IDEA conference in Liverpool.  The delegates came from local authorities across England, and the first morning of the event was designed to look at Transition.  I spoke first, and gave a general overview of it, and then Simon Allen of Transition Stroud and Cllr. Fi Macmillan of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/24/what-can-happen-when-a-transition-initiative-and-its-local-government-work-together-the-stroud-story/</link>
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		<title>A Look at Peak Oil Preparation Plans from Around the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Peter asked me yesterday what I thought the collective noun for curmudgeons ought to be (the context for this question escapes me&#8230;).  I had no response, so he offered his, a &#8216;misery&#8217; of curmudgeons.  Got me thinking, as I am up to my armpits in editing the Totnes Energy Descent Plan, what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/23/a-look-at-peak-oil-preparation-plans-from-around-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Transition Network Seeks a Web Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Transition Network is seeking someone who can carry out the job set out in this Job Description,  orchestrating the development and implementation of Transition Network&#8217;s new, and rather wonderful, web strategy. We envisage a marriage between process and technology to create the mechanisms for transitioners to connect, share energy and information, and get/give support.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/22/transition-network-seeks-a-web-manager/</link>
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		<title>Interesting Piece from the US Media&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very interesting piece from the North Bay Bohemian (great name for a paper), which offers an interesting update on the continuing spread of Transition in the US. 
Cheer Up, It&#8217;s Going to Get Worse: Transition communities gear up for society&#8217;s collapse with a shovel and a smile
By Alastair Bland.  North Bay Bohemian. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/22/interesting-piece-from-the-us-media/</link>
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		<title>Mary-Jayne Rust on the &#8216;Resilience of the Heart&#8217;</title>
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Mary Jayne Rust is an ecopsychologist and psychotherapist.  At the 2009 Transition Network conference &#8216;Transition Everywhere&#8217; event, she gave a talk called &#8216;Resilience of the Heart.  It set out to address the following;
&#8220;Crisis has the potential to transform our hearts. This is a great gift. What might help us to be open hearted and resilient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/17/mary-jayne-rust-on-the-resilience-of-the-heart/</link>
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		<title>Transition Featured In The Telegraph Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite a good article in the Telegraph on Saturday, High Street, High Noon, comparing how the recession is affecting Totnes and Chester, and how they are both responding.  The reporter, Mick Brown, seemed to find his finding out about Transition rather fascinating, and following his trip to Totnes and his interviews here, he subsequently made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/15/transition-featured-in-the-telegraph-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Please Take Your Seats Ladies and Gentlement, the Online Screening of &#8216;In Transition&#8217;Starts Now&#8230;</title>
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** Please note: Due to a Request from the US that not enough people had heard about this in time, this online preview screening will now be extended until last thing Sunday night (BST)**
The film &#8216;In Transition&#8217; is now available for viewing, for the next 72 hours.  The version being screened is not the final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/11/please-take-your-seats-ladies-and-gentlement-the-online-screening-of-in-transitionstarts-now/</link>
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