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Walnuts will save the Earth. I’m sure of it. Such a wonderful tree, such a marvel of nature, my love affair with the walnut remains undimmed over the many years since our first flirtations 13 years ago. If I had to trace our affair back to a particular event, it would be a beautiful autumn day where I went for a walk by a canal near Bath.
We had a fantastic day on Saturday, Transition Town Totnes’ first Open Space day, **’How Will Totnes Feed Itself Beyond the Age of Cheap Oil?’** Not only did we get a good turnout and generate lots of wonderful connections and ideas, we also successfully trialled our putting the whole event live on the site as it unfolded. You can see the results on the Transition Town Totnes website, with photos and all the ideas generated. Our idea that lots of people around the world would be emailing in their thoughts and input didn’t quite come to pass, but as you’ll see, a couple of people did. We learnt lots from this event that we will be able to use to improve this coming Saturday’s event, which is about energy. Have a read of the write up of the event, it was quite something.
Tomorrow between 10am and 4pm GMT at the Civic Hall in Totnes, Transition Town Totnes are holding our first Open Space day, a community think-tank called **How Will Totnes Feed Itself Beyond Cheap Oil?** The day follows on from the evening called ‘Feeding Totnes, past, present and future’ on Tuesday which attracted nearly 200 people to hear Guy Watson, Helena Norberg-Hodge and Mary Bartlett. The idea of the day is to use Open Space Technology, a powerful tool by which communities self-organise to discuss ideas and explore solutions, in this case in relation to food. Now, thanks to there being a wifi connection in Totnes, you can follow it online as it unfolds.
*My response to Zachary’s recent article generated more comments than any other previous piece on **Transition Culture**. I will write something about all that soon, but in the meantime, he has written a thoughtful piece restating his thoughts and his position on all this. I am delighted that he has chosen this as the venue to publish it. It is a very honest piece, and one which, if the last one is anything to go by, you will enjoy commenting on!*
Here is some information about the next two events run by Transition Town Totnes. Following the successful launch at the beginning of September, the first aspect of relocalisation to come under focus is food. Our first event brings together three people with particular perspectives on the past, present and future of food in the area. This will hopefully serve to energise people for the first TTT Open Space, which follows three days later, which takes the form of a self-organising community think-tank on food issues. Do come along, details below.
