25 Apr 2013
Fantastic new animation: ‘Carbon Omissions: how the UK outsourced its carbon footprint’
Here’s a wonderful new video from Carbon Omissions which uses animation to beautifully make a very important point:
An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
24 Apr 2013
“I’m sorry … what?”: a visit to the Met Office Hadley Centre
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 …
23 Apr 2013
Introducing the Transition Research Primer
With some considerable amount of fanfare and dancing elephants, I would like to introduce you today to the all-new Transition Research Primer. It is the creation of the Transition Research Network (TRN), a self-organising peer group of academics and community activists which aims to:
- Help advance understanding and practice in Transition
- Support Transition groups to address their research needs
- Help transform the crisis in our universities into an opportunity for positive change in research culture, making research relevant, fulfilling, and fun.
The Primer is available here. I spoke to one of its authors, Tom Henfrey, a researcher in the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action at Durham University and Bristol’s Schumacher Institute, to ask him more about it and how it came about.
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.
18 Apr 2013
Today. Here. At 5pm BST. The Macy/Johnstone webinar!
Well this is all very exciting isn’t it. It’s the first Transition Culture/Resilience.org webinar, today, at 5pm BST. So here’s how it’s going to work. You need to watch this box below which will spring into life just before 5pm.
* The video recording of this will be posted soon *
Joanna and Chris will speak for about 15 minutes, I’ll ask them a couple of questions, and then I’ll ask them your questions, which you will be able to send in during the webinar. The whole thing will be recorded and uploaded onto YouTube at some point in the future. That’s about it really. See you back here at 5pm. If you bring popcorn or crisps do eat them quietly.
