Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
Come find me at robhopkins.net
Monthly archive for July 2006
Showing results 11 - 15 of 15 for the month of July, 2006.
7 Jul 2006
**Life After Oil: Breaking the Habit. A Residential Course at Schumacher College, Devon, UK. November 12-24, 2006**
**Teachers:** David Fleming, Ron Oxburgh, Michael Meacher, Richard Heinberg.
I’d like to recommend a rather exciting course which is taking place on my doorstep in November, bringing a number of great speakers to Totnes. If you have never before done a course at Schumacher College, there could be few better places to start than this course. The press release for the course reads, “this unique two-week course brings together leading thinkers in the field to address Peak Oil issues from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds.
Read more»
6 Jul 2006
I’m sure you all saw this when it came out, but not having a TV I only just saw it on the newly released DVD. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Jamie Oliver is a TV chef who undertook to try and change school dinners in the UK. The programme and the campaign that arose from it have had a huge effect on school meals in the UK, and, it could be argued, did more to put one issue on the public agenda than any single campaign run by an environmental group over the last 50 years. So, what can we learn from Jamie’s School Dinners that can help with energy descent planning projects?
Read more»
5 Jul 2006
**Bjorn Lomborg** is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial. Despite having been accused of scientific dishonesty by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, he is still out there, touting his free market ideas. This Sunday’s Observer newspaper included an article by Lomborg called Climate change can wait. World health Can’t.
Read more»
4 Jul 2006
There was a song in the charts when I was a kid called “You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties”, by Jona Lewie. Rather than being found in the kitchen, I tend to be found tending the clay pizza oven. Having built a few of the things, and also having arrived in places where a clay oven has been made but no-one quite knows what to do with it, I tend to end up being the one with the singed eyebrows. Having spent last Saturday making pizza at my kids school fair in their clay oven, I thought I might pass on my thoughts as to what ensures a successful firing and a good long baking session.
Read more»
3 Jul 2006
I had an excellent meeting last week with Dr Chris Johnstone and Dr. Stephen Rollnick, in Bristol, to look at how insights from addiction and in particular Motivational Interviewing can inform energy descent projects. It was great, really useful, the recording is presently being transcribed and I’ll post it here as soon as I can. One thing that came up that I am keen to put in front of you all is a question that Stephen came up with, that we kicked about but didn’t really resolve, and that I’d love your thoughts on.
Read more»
I’d like to recommend a rather exciting course which is taking place on my doorstep in November, bringing a number of great speakers to Totnes. If you have never before done a course at Schumacher College, there could be few better places to start than this course. The press release for the course reads, “this unique two-week course brings together leading thinkers in the field to address Peak Oil issues from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds.
