4 Nov 2008
The second film that emerged from my dusty archives is a programme called Leargas, an Irish language programme from RTE television. This programme is from 2002, and is called ‘A Gra for Straw’ (Gra is Irish for ‘love’). It offers a fascinating snapshot of the young and emerging green/natural building movement in Ireland then. It also features a somewhat younger and more windswept me co-ordinating a strawbale building project on a windswept hillside in West Cork.
Part Two | Part Three
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3 Nov 2008
Unfortunately I just heard from Jeremy Leggett that due to urgent commitments, he is unable to participate in today’s Transition Chat…. we will reschedule and let you know. Sorry about that. If you want to meet there and have a chat anyway, do feel free. Next week’s will look at structure and organisation for Transition initiatives.
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3 Nov 2008
I was clearing out a cupboard the other day and found a dusty pile of old VHS video cassettes. On closer inspection, it turns out that among various odd bits and bobs, were two old programmes I thought you might find interesting. Thanks to Alex Munslow for uploading them onto YouTube for me. Today’s film appeared on Ireland’s RTE television in July 2005, and was filmed the day before the Fuelling the Future conference.
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31 Oct 2008
Thought that on this beautiful sunny Autumn morning (feels like the morning after the Great Flood, given the extraordinary rainfall we had yesterday) you might like to have a snapshot of what TTT is up to, courtesy of our latest Bulletin which was published yesterday. Click here to read it.
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30 Oct 2008
Yesterday I showed you the film produced from the talk I gave via video conference to Tallinn in Estonia as part of the ‘Life After Capitalism’ series. Part of the series featured a web-forum, where people were invited to post ‘reflections’ on what they had seen or experienced during the series of talks. Here is a short film made by Marit Sirgmets inspired by my talk.
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