Transition Culture

Brilliantly done (part 1 anyway, I’ll watch the other parts when time allows). This, along with The Story Of Stuff, ought to be seen by everyone. We (humans) may reverse the damage we’ve been doing to the biosphere if enough of us are shown, and are convinced about the necessity of, how to make the changes necessary locally to impact, in the aggregate, this global crisis. It will take nothing short of that, and we may not succeed. The culture of greed is powerful and deeply entrenched, and its primary supporters are doing everything money can buy to maintain the status quo including co-opting the green movement in order to bring in still more profits.

Wow! This is very exciting! Having this online will do much to promote this crucial work! Thank you!

I have now watched the entire film, and I wanted to share with readers here that I was on several occasions actually moved to tears. This may be surprising, and I may seem overly sensitive…, but watching this film made me realize just how alienating it is to live with knowledge of these very risky matters while most folks around me aren’t actually engaged in transitioning.

To watch people honestly, actively and collaboratively doing something–anything–toward building a viable post-carbon world, while also building genuine cooperative community, is to look directly at what I so much need, but lack. There are no surrogates that can fill that unmet need (e.g., consumer baubles, status in the form of conspicuous consumption). All there is for me is to look unflinchingly at that lack and … turn it into a gift.

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Nice, i like it for what i’ve seen (part 1). I’d hope there could something in it about decreasing meat consumption, as it is one of the major issues in dealing with climate change!!

I also want to say that there is a new documentary out (though a very very doom one) but i find it worth mentioning. It is calles ‘Collapse’ and features Michael Ruppert.

Excellent that it is now available to view on youtube! (I’ve not seen it yet!)

Just wanted to ask if you are still planning to make it freely available to download (?) as promised here where it states:

“Available for download on “pay what you think it’s worth” basis: 1-Dec-09 – “home showings only” licence”

Thanks for clarification 🙂

PS – in the meantime I’m using http://keepvid.com/ to download all 6 parts, but it’d be nice to have one big high quality file to download using bittorrent 🙂

(btw, for some reason I can’t watch part 3 on youtube because it says there are copyright issues)

Hi Josef,
We have done a lot of looking into this. In the end, the amount of server space needed for this was very costly, and apparently when Radiohead did it, it was done at a loss. Having it streaming online with a password was tricky too, so in the end we went for the YouTube route. Part 3 is temporarily held up as it contains footage from Channel 4’s River Cottage series (the bit where HFW comes to Totnes to see the Garden Share scheme) which YouTube thought we had no permissions for, but we do, so those are currently being sorted out with them. In the end, rather than the DVD and the download being ;home showings licence only’, what we have done is put it on YouTube and produced the DVD, but the DVD now comes with a show it in public, organise screenings permission.
Thanks

Thanks Rob,

Just ordered the DVD 🙂

For those dying to watch part 3 (its one of the best parts!), despite not being able to see it online yet (whilst the copyright issues are sorted) you can still download it