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19 Feb 2008
**The Transition Handbook** will be available to order here at Transition Culture on February 28th, the wait is nearly over (more on that soon). By way of starting to introduce you to it, and by way of whetting your appetite for its many wonders, here is the introduction to the book, which first introduces the concept of resilience.
*Apricots drying on rooftops in Hunza. A drawing from the author’s sketchbook, August 1990.*
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6 Feb 2008
Here is an entertaining story from one of our local papers, the Herald Express, about the **Totnes Pound**. Colourworks are our wonderful local printers, who have worked incredibly hard reducing the footprint of their business, and who are altogether charming people too. They do all Transition Town Totnes’s printing, and when they printed the second Totnes Pound, we asked them if they would be happy to take payment in them, which they did without batting an eyelid, thereby setting the record for the largest single payment in Totnes Pounds that we know of. The article also touches on the Oil Vulnerability Audit we did for them.
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16 Jan 2008
**Public Meeting: How thinking about the climate crisis needs to change.**
Friday 18 January 2008. Venue: St. John’s Church, Totnes. 7.30pm to 9.30pm
We are delighted to announce that FEASTA, the Irish Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, are dropping in to Totnes this weekend for a climate think tank thing, and as part of that will be holding a public meeting this Friday. It looks like it will be a great event, so do try to get over for it.
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14 Jan 2008
**The Slow Money Revolution** by Cliona O Conaill. New Consumer magazine.
Money is so inextricably woven into the fabric of our lives that it has become fundamental to our survival in the West. It affects almost everything we do, and yet we actually know very little about it. However, understanding of the nature of money will empower us as consumers. Money is not an actual thing. It is only an agreement between businesses, banks, governments, communities and nations to treat something as though it has value. It is “like a marriage, like a political party, like a business deal”, says Bernard Lietaer, author of nine books on money and finances and an economist for over 25 years who was involved in designing the Euro.
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26 Nov 2007
On Sunday 17th November, an evening was held at the Seven Stars Hotel in Totnes to explore the past, present and future of the Totnes Pound. We were extremely lucky to have at the meeting Richard Douthwaite, Bernard Lietaer and David Boyle, who were all at Schumacher College for an economics think tank which we borrowed them from. The intention of the evening was to gather the ideas from the experts, from the community and from local traders about the Pound, about its successes and its weakenesses, in advance of the planning for a third phase early in the New Year.
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