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16 Mar 2010

Transition Adelaide West Organise an Open Air Film Screening

Transition Adelaide West recently ran an open-air film screening (somewhat easier to do in Australia than in Devon in March). Looks like a great event, and all credit to them for documenting the event and making it available online.

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Categories: Transition Initiatives


15 Mar 2010

Situation Vacant with Transition Scotland Support

part of TNTRANSITION SCOTLAND SUPPORT (Edinburgh)

Transition Scotland Support is recruiting for a new post to develop a range of printed, video, web based and other resources around training, mentoring and re-skilling for Scottish Transition communities.

We’re looking for someone to connect with local groups around Scotland and create accessible materials that tell their stories, someone who can create contexts for people to share their experience and skills, to inspire and resource people involved in Transition. Experience of working with community groups will be essential, as is a real ability to communicate, enthuse others and draw together people and information. If you think you’ll be able to hit the ground running, and help us develop valuable resources for communities over the next year, we’d love to hear from you.

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Categories: Transition Initiatives, Transition Network


15 Mar 2010

The Economic Potential of Local Building Materials

princesfoundatiuonA while ago now I was in London for the launch of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment’s ‘Building a New Green Economy’ conference, where I was a speaker alongside Tim Jackson, David Orr and Stewart Brand.  You can read about the event here, and films of our talks will be posted soon.  I mention it today because I want to draw your attention to the report launched at the conference, Sustainable Supply Chains that Support Local Economic Development, available to download here As someone who has, for many years, been fascinated by local, natural building materials, this is a fascinating piece of research, one of the first things I have seen which starts trying to calculate the financial benefits to an area of moving towards more locally-sourced building materials. 

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Categories: Book Reviews, Localisation, Natural Building, Technology


12 Mar 2010

Heinberg on Life Beyond Growth… excellent stuff

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A fabulous piece by Richard Heinberg.  Great to read him being optimistic, well. in a Heinbergy kind of way.   I also read this piece as an early, brief version of the history of the peak oil/relocalisation/Transition movement that someone will inevitably write one day….   One correction though, ‘Transition Handbook’ wasn’t my PhD, unfortunely I am still flogging away at that!!

What if the economy doesn’t recover? (From Post Carbon Institute)

In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted; so did purchases of autos and other consumer goods. Property values crashed; foreclosure and bankruptcy rates bled. For states, counties, cities, and towns; for manufacturers, retailers, and middle- and low-income families, the consequences were—and continue to be—catastrophic. Other nations were soon caught up in the undertow.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Economics, Energy, Energy Descent Planning, Localisation, Peak Oil, Resilience, Transition Initiatives


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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Categories: Community Involvement, Education for Sustainability, Food, Great Reskilling, Localisation, Resilience, Transition Initiatives