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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.
Transition-wise things seem to be moving along very swiftly in France, so here are a few of the more recent developments we want to share with you. The “In Transition 1.0” film is now available on Vimeo with embedded subtitles, thanks so much to Paul for helping us out with this. Also, more fantastic news is that Rob’s Transition Handbook has now been translated into French and published by Ecosocieté, so we hope this will inspire even more Transition initiatives to take off in France.
Here is a rather clever thing which was produced from a talk I gave recently for Transition Derby, which mixes the slideshow and an audio file. Very clever.
It’s October already, so it’s time to share September’s Transition activities from across the world… we have lots of news from Transition groups in the Netherlands. Their Renewable Energy Project has 75 households involved in it, which between them will have about 800 solar panels on their roofs in the coming spring. Also their first Local and Interest Free money project was launched at the end of September, and they also recently held a Post-fossil Festival, with lots of interesting activities going on. Their ‘Share your stuff – with people you trust’ social website, launched in August, has seen 688 people share 832 goods…wow! They’ve also been making ‘eatable façade gardens’ in the heart of the old city of Deventer, and there’s a great video too:
Oh dear, oh dear. I had seen Frannie Armstrong’s newsletters talking about a forthcoming promo film for 10:10 being made by Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually etc), but actually got to sit down and watch it last night. I have to say I am shocked, and appalled by this, and I’m on their side! The reaction to it has been largely negative and the whole saga entirely self defeating, the very people it was presumably meant to invite to be part of 10:10 feeling understandably judged, revolted and assaulted by it. If you haven’t seen it, here it is, you’ll need to have seen it for what I am going to write to make any sense….
Over 40 people came together in Bristol on Wednesday to explore what the government’s Big Society agenda might mean for Transition initiatives. The venue was the Unitarian Church Hall, and the day proved to be very focused and yielded much insightful thinking and useful ideas. What follows is my attempt to produce a clear record of the event, the ideas and the debates, as well as the suggestions for where this might go next, dragged from my illegible notes, so any mistakes or misrepresentations are entirely my own doing.
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Transition-wise things seem to be moving along very swiftly in France, so here are a few of the more recent developments we want to share with you. The “In Transition 1.0” film is now available on Vimeo with embedded subtitles, thanks so much to Paul for helping us out with this. Also, more fantastic news is that Rob’s Transition Handbook has now been translated into French and published by Ecosocieté, so we hope this will inspire even more Transition initiatives to take off in France. 
