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Archive for “Education for Sustainability” category

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24 Feb 2010

Tim Kasser on ‘The Real Cost of Consumerism’, a talk in Totnes

Tim Kasser was recently in Totnes giving a talk, and the good folks at nu-project were there with their cameras. While Tim was in Totnes I also did an interview with him which I will be posting here over the next couple of days.

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23 Feb 2010

Transition South East Conference: Don’t Miss It!

tseSaturday 13th March, Brighton, find out more here, download the poster here, should be a fantastic event. Here’s the rather good poster.

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22 Feb 2010

Joanne Poyourow on Solidarity

joanneJoanne Poyourow has been rather busy recently, posting some very insightful pieces about the broadening and the deepening of Transition.  From asking whether Transition is a movement or an organisation, to exploring issues of diversity in Transition.   Here is my favourite, an excellent piece recently posted by Joanne over at the Transition US site, which focuses on the issue of solidarity.

Solidarity

  1. union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
  2. community of feelings, purposes, etc.

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11 Feb 2010

An Interactive Lunch With BBC Radio Devon (lunch not provided)

fitzAs readers of my Twitterfeed will know (my workload at the moment means that there is probably more happening there than here at the moment) I did an interview yesterday on BBC Radio Devon’s ‘Interactive Lunch’ with David FitzGerald.  It was good fun, and for the next 7 days you can hear it here.  My bit starts at 49 minutes 25 seconds.  My apologies for the music choices, nothing to do with me.  Any clever bod out there able to grab a recording of it before it is taken down again after 7 days?

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8 Feb 2010

Davie Philip on ‘The Good Life 2.0.’

Here’s a great talk by Davie Philip, long-standing master-networker, Transition Ireland Network catalyst and one man catalyst for change, speaking at day two of The New Emergency Conference: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World, held in Dublin last summer by FEASTA. Excellent.

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