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26 Jun 2012

The power of “why not?”: an interview on Marlow FM

Had great fun the other day doing an interview with Dave Hampton, ‘The Carbon Coach’, for his ‘Watt Next Show’ on Marlow FM. It went out last night, and here it is for your listening pleasure.

Here is Part One:

… and Part Two …

Here is the track that played at the end of Part 1 in case you wondered.  Thanks Dave…

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20 Jun 2012

“Why not?” indeed: breathing power into possibilities

Early morning sun welcoming the '24 Hours of Possibilities' into the world

The centre of Manchester, where I spent last weekend, doesn’t feature a diversity of small, medium and large hotels and hostels in the same way that, say, Paris does.  So far as I could tell, there are just several huge Premier Inns, and huge Travelodges, massive, soul-less tower blocks with massive soul-less logos down the side.  As well as that, in the centre, virtually every shop is a huge chain, you know the ones, they now dominate every city centre in the country.  It’s like an episode of Dr Who, where the place has been taken over by huge leeches, sucking the financial lifeblood out of the city, what Andrew Simms recently called “extractive industries”, funnelling money to distant shareholders.  There are endless hideous new ‘iconic’ buildings, massive corporate egos in built form, usually home to just one organisation (such as the hideous gravity-defying monster below, surely a contender for James Howard Kunstler’s ‘Eyesore of the Month’?).  But on this day when many are celebrating ’24 Hours of Possibility’ (have a look, there’s loads going on!), how might it be possible to see beyond all that to something that actually nourishes us as individuals, communities and local economies?

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15 Jun 2012

An inspiring overview of Brazilian Transition at Brazil’s TEDx

We’ve had a couple of posts this week that are frankly not much use to my English-speaking readers, but which are great stuff nonetheless.  Today we have a TEDx talk from TEDxValedosVinhedos by Zaida Amaral about Transition in Brazil.  I don’t speak a word of Portugese, but her presentation is so passionate and fantastic that I was gripped from start to finish.  Brasiliandia, which featured in a video I posted earlier this week, also appeared this week on Globo TV, Brazil’s biggest TV station, in a piece that also featured Totnes and presented Transition in the run-up to Rio+20.

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14 Jun 2012

A day at Bristol Big Green Week (with presentations by Tim Smit, Kevin McCloud and Rob Hopkins)

I spent a very enjoyable day at Bristol Green Week yesterday. Green Week is a celebration of green ideas and thinking in Bristol, which has featured a wildly eclectic mix of talks, workshops, music, comedy, films, walks and much more. I arrived midway through the week’s festivities, to participate in two events. The first was a screening of ‘In Transition 2.0’, shown as the third in a series of films under the somewhat uninspiring banner of ‘Documentary Evidence’. Apparently Monday’s had attracted 30 people, and Tuesday’s just 4, so it was suggested that I might want to temper my expectations in terms of attendance. In the end over 40 people came, and the whole thing went really well.

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30 May 2012

A May Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Welcome to the monthly round-up of what people are up to doing Transition around the world.  Let’s start this month in Spain.  Spain recently held its first national Transition conference, which you can read more about here, and you can see Juan del Río’s reflections on it here.  Here is a great film about the event which gives a great sense of the energy and dynamism that it tapped into:

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