Transition Culture

13 Dec 2006

Coming Soon – Escape from Suburbia!

I’m sure there are very few of you out there who haven’t seen The End of Suburbia. Well, its sequel, Escape from Suburbia is on its way, you can now view the trailer over at You Tube and it does look really rather good.

Cultivate, the Centre for Sustainable Living in Dublin just showed a special 15 minute preview and the excitement is building. Have a look at the trailer, tell your friends, and brace yourself for what promises to be the mother of all sequels (even better than Dumb and Dumberer…). Hopefully we’ll be able to show it as part of Transition Town Totnes, sooner rather than later….

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11 Dec 2006

“Plant trees, disband the army, work together: the Tuscan way of surviving collapse” by Ugo Bardi.

**Plant trees, disband the army, work together: the Tuscan way of surviving collapse by Ugo Bardi.**

**Ugo Bardi** is a Professor at the Dipartimento di Chimica at Università di Firenze in Italy, and is also President of [ASPO Italy](www.aspoitalia.net”ASPOIT”), who so ably hosted ASPO5 in Pisa earlier this year. In this article, Ugo delves back into the history of his region of Italy, Tuscany, and identifies strategies and lessons of relevance to societies in their attempts to respond to peak oil. Having lived in Tuscany myself for a couple of years, it is a part of the world I am very fond of, so here is an article which mixes post-peak solutions and Tuscan history, and offers some very useful points in so doing.

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1 Dec 2006

Exploring the Connections between Energy Descent Plans and the Oil Depletion Protocol.

On the last day of Richard Heinberg’s teaching on the Life After Oil course at Schumacher College, where he had been teaching a session on the Oil Depletion Protocol (ODP), a question was asked about the relationship between the ODP and Energy Descent Plans (EDP). The discussion between Richard and myself I found very useful in clarifying how the two fit together.

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30 Nov 2006

Some Inconsequential Nonsense About Keeping Your Head Warm on Winter Nights (and pyjamas).

This is really a post of no particular consequence, apologies in advance. Having been recently voted Britain’s 12th Best Green Blog, I thought I had better check out the competition, and so I have been rooting about among those that also came in the Top 100. Despite being a bit unsure how George Monbiot managed to get a website that isn’t actually a blog in at number 3, I have to say I was fascinated by the diversity of the various sites. I rather enjoyed Camden Kiwi, who somehow manages to simultaneously write about coal fired powerstations and her walk to the charity shop round the corner from her house. Something about the combination of the important and the inconsequential rather appeals to me (as you may have observed). So in the spirit of celebrating the utterly inconsequential, I wanted today to offer some in-depth observations on pyjamas.

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29 Nov 2006

Taking Transition Towns To Local Businesses – An Oil Vulnerability Workshop.

**Oil Vulnerability Auditing – a Workshop Organised by Envision and Transition Town Totnes, Follaton House, Totnes.
Presented by Simon Snowden of University of Liverpool.**

How does a project like Transition Town Totnes engage with the business community in the surrounding area? This is a question which is key to the success of the process, and something grassroots environmental projects have always struggled with. We were delighted then that Simon Snowden from the University of Liverpool came down a couple of weeks ago to run a workshop with representatives of 10 local businesses to explore this.

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