An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
Transition Culture has moved
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.
This, the penultimate Transition object in our series of short films telling some of the stories from The Transition Companion, presents a bowl of topsoil from a field just outside Norwich. It looks at the work happening there around local food, offering a great example of strategic thinking in practice. You can download the flyer for Norwich Farmshare, one of the initiatives discussed in this film here, and they will also feature in next week’s December Transition podcast.
I already posted a clever thing here that mixed the slides and the audio from a talk I gave the RESOLVE conference in May, well here now is the film of the talk, in case you’re interested…
After my talk in Norwich last week, I met a local authority emergency planner, who said that he had found the talk, and the Transition take on resilience, very illuminating. He pointed me in the direction of the latest ‘Strategic National Framework on Community Resilience’, the latest “national statement for how individual and community resilience can work”, published by the Cabinet Office in March of this year. It is a fascinating document, and is indeed the first official government document on community resilience that refers explicitly to the Transition movement, and as such deserves a post reflecting on it. It also offers a tantalising glimpse into what a government response to peak oil, climate change and economic contraction might look like if anyone had the imagination to create one.
Having spent the couple of nights before Halloween hollowing out several pumpkins and ending up with mountains of orange flesh, finding something to do with it all was a challenge. The kids had tired of pumpkin soup, so it was by good fortune that I chanced across this recipe for pumpkin pie (in Carey and Large’s book ‘Festivals, Family and Food’), and I’m smitten (and so are the kids)! It’s easy to make, makes your kitchen smell amazing while it’s cooking, and it tastes great. So here’s how it works. You will need:
Thursday is the proper launch date for The Transition Companion, and some other exciting new developments will be unveiled on Thursday too. You’re going to love them. In the meantime, here is the wonderful foreword for the book written by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
“Observing the growth of the Transition movement over the past five years has been inspiring in so many ways. While governments and big business struggle (to put it politely) to tackle the enormous environmental issues that face us, this movement has forged ahead with its collective bid to find a creative, passionate response to the question ‘where do we go from here?’
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
Read more»
This, the penultimate Transition object in our series of short films telling some of the stories from The Transition Companion, presents a bowl of topsoil from a field just outside Norwich. It looks at the work happening there around local food, offering a great example of strategic thinking in practice. You can download the flyer for Norwich Farmshare, one of the initiatives discussed in this film here, and they will also feature in next week’s December Transition podcast.
