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
In The Transition Handbook you will find 12 “Tools for Transition”, scattered through the book, practical activities that can help to support and deepen your Transition process. Some of them have evolved during the process, and others are other peoples’ ideas we have used and sometimes adapted. I’ll post them here, one a day. This first one is the shortest, but hopefully you might find a way to use it in your work.
It’s been a long time coming, but now it’s here, and you can now buy the first copies here at Transition Culture. Tonight sees the pre-launch celebration of the book at the Civic Hall in Totnes, with the official launch the following week in Bristol. However, we have copies and they are available for mail order as of today. Just follow the ‘Buy Now’ button to your right and away you go. I think if you like this site, you are going to love the book.
By now you may have noticed that Transition Culture looks somewhat different. I thought that, to co-incide with the arrival of The Transition Handbook it was time to give the site a makeover, given that it has looked exactly the same since it began in November 2005. The redesign was done by Simon of Lumpy Lemon in Oxford, and I rather like it… . It tidies up the links down the right hand side that had become very long and sprawly, and is hopefully a joy for you to use. What do you think? Do let us know your thoughts on our new look.
You’re going to hate me for this, your life will never be the same again. Quick ways of peeling eggs may not be at the top of the Great Reskilling agenda, but my entire family has recently become intrigued by a particular approach to egg peeling that has been keeping people busy on YouTube. The story begins with the following film which purports to show a jolly bloke at his kitchen table apparently setting a challenge to the rest of the world by making it look perfectly simple to peel an egg in under 10 seconds by simply taking the ends off and blowing it out of its shell. Clearly not exactly up there with building a cob wall or even mastering the growing of Ruby Chard, but pretty impressive nonetheless.
Green Books just posted the promotional video for **The Transition Handbook** which we filmed a couple of months ago. The first two shots were filmed on the coldest day of the year, and each one took about 20 takes, so by the time we filmed the ones you see here, I was numb from the waist downwards and an odd blue colour. By the time we got to do the indoor shots we were minutes away from death from exposure. Also the lip synch is slightly out, but that will be remedied soon… Anyway, take a look, its quite good fun…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-r_aS6dgQ
