11 Apr 2011
Transition in Action: a community garden for Worthing
Here’s a great short film from Worthing about their new community garden initiative:
An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
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1 Apr 2011
Trialling the RELATE lettuce…
I want to tell you about a rather exciting new plant I am growing in the garden this year. RELATE, the marriage guidance and relationship counseling organisation last year launched a range of specially bred plants designed to overcome many of the challenges which their research showed most often led to conflict among gardening couples. The one I am trialling (see above) is the ‘Flowering Lettuce’, designed to support couples where one partner wants to grow food at the expense of growing vegetables, and the other only wants to grow flowers. Apparently this is responsible for 28% of all the disputes RELATE work with. I was dubious, but last week, after 3 weeks of just looking like a normal lettuce, it burst into beautiful flowers! I’m impressed. You can also eat the flowers, which are said to have a slight taste of malt, but they are so beautiful I can’t bring myself to.
31 Mar 2011
A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
A recent Transition Training in Chile....
It’s the end of the month again, which means it’s time to bring you a taste of the wonderful Transitioney things that have been going on around the world. We’ll start in South America with some very exciting news from Colombia where they recently held their first three Transition Trainings, and here’s a report with a few pictures. And then there’s news of Chile’s first Transition Town at El Manzano in the BíoBío Region, started by three brothers who also established the Ecoescuela where they teach sustainable lifestyles.
24 Mar 2011
An interview with Naomi Klein, Part Two. “we must address inequality if we’re going to deal with climate change”.
You talked last night about the need for a new coalition in response to climate change, on that could come out fighting… this is the focus of your new book, but I wonder if you are in a position to start sketching out what that might look like?
I’m not sure I’m ready to do that. The only thing I can say is that people, as you know here, people don’t get involved just because it’s climate. People go to a protest because of climate change but they don’t do what they’re doing in Wisconsin – occupying the state capital for almost a month – and this is why politicians feel they can ignore climate issues. Even the people who care, as opposed to the people that deny anything is happening, even the people who care don’t care that much! They always rank it at the bottom of a list of all these other issues. They care more about education, they care more about unemployment, they care more about health.
21 Mar 2011
Transition in Action: ‘From the Ground Up’
Transition in Action: From the Ground Up by Stephanie Hofielen.
From the Ground Up (FGU), a working group of Transition Town Kingston, is a volunteer run, not for profit, organic fresh fruit and vegetable box scheme. The box scheme was launched in March 2010 as a buying group for eight families in response to the high expense and inaccessibility of organic food. The group was very clear in its goal of sourcing organic fruit and vegetables at affordable prices whilst supporting sustainable food systems. The principles underpinning FGU are:
