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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.
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27 Mar 2007
People often ask me about the 2 year Practical Sustainability course at **Kinsale Further Education College**, the fulltime permaculture training I set up in 2000 which, among many other things, gave birth to the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan. While I was working there there was never a website for the college, but now there is, and it gives you a very good idea of what is on offer there and as well as giving a nice feel for the spirit of the place. So, if you are thinking that a 2 year full-time permaculture training sounds like the thing for you, have a look at the website, Kinsale is a beautiful place to spend a couple of years changing your life!
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26 Mar 2007
**The 10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative** have become what we refer people to when they ask how to do a Transition Town, but as they are applied and tested in different places, inevitably the need for certain additions and refinements emerge. Therefore, I would now like to redefine them as the **12** First Steps, and add a new one on the beginning and one on the end. Today I am going to introduce the new first one, which now goes at the beginning of the series.
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23 Mar 2007
One of my favourite books is Charles Dickens’ **Great Expectations**. Dickens was a great social commentator, a literary scourge of the judiciary, the bankers, the evils of Victorian society, but also a great celebratory of its good side and of its good people. He was also one of the best creators of characters in the English language. I was flipping through it the other day, and came across the wonderful description of Mr Wemmick’s house. Mr Wemmick is a clerk who works for the vile Mr Jaggers, the lawyer, spending his days in a dark and dusty office in Newgate in London, and is described as having a face that looked as though it had been carved out of wood with a blunt chisel. His home life is a secret to his boss, and one day he takes Pip, our hero, back to his house for tea.
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22 Mar 2007
**Jerry Mander** was in Totnes recently teaching at Schumacher College, and he gave a Wednesday evening talk for Transition Town Totnes which was excellent and very well attended. For those of you who don’t know who he is, here is what Wikipedia has to say about him. “Jerry Mander is an American activist best known for his book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), and for his contribution to a book on an unrelated topic, The Great International Paper Airplane Book (1971).
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21 Mar 2007
This evening sees the first event from Transition City Bristol, the largest scale Transition project in the UK (yet). Dr. Chris Johnstone will be giving a talk tonight at 7pm at the Trinity Centre, Bristol. Chris was a star at the Official Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes, and his talk will be called “Personal Power for the Planet: looking at ways you can deepen your determination, cultivate enthusiasm and become more inspired”.
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People often ask me about the 2 year Practical Sustainability course at **Kinsale Further Education College**, the fulltime permaculture training I set up in 2000 which, among many other things, gave birth to the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan. While I was working there there was never a website for the college, but now there is, and it gives you a very good idea of what is on offer there and as well as giving a nice feel for the spirit of the place. So, if you are thinking that a 2 year full-time permaculture training sounds like the thing for you, have a look at the website, Kinsale is a beautiful place to spend a couple of years changing your life! 
