4 Jul 2010
A July Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
Transition Maastricht in the Netherlands open their new community garden (see below)...
This month we’re starting with some Transition snapshots from the US…and here we see the US is permablitzing too, with a potluck to follow up, while T Mill Valley has combined their potluck with a rambling hike along local trails. They recently held a very successful and enthusiastically received first event focussing on ‘Resilience from the Ground Up’, so we wish them success for the future. T Putney has now got a community garden to divide into twelve plots…great for improving people’s access to land. We look forward to seeing some pics of work in progress! Here’s a piece about TT Albany written by an interested follower. From TT Milwaukee we have lots about their Powerdown Week 2010: there’s a week’s events calendar, a report with an audio story too, and a slideshow.
I haven’t blogged about this before due to lack of time, but I really should have, given that it really is essential reading/viewing. Lord Monckton is one the leading climate sceptics out there, who very publicly argues that the world is actually getting colder, the oceans are not acidifying, arctic ice is not retreating, and that climate change is all a scam cooked up by the UN in order to usher in a New World Order (still with me?). Last October, he
Many of those who attended the recent Transition Network conference remarked on how well facilitated the event was, and on the group process run on the Sunday. Although the event was designed to feel as self-organised as possible, there was a great deal of intentional design behind the event, much of which was the work of Sophy Banks (see left). In the following piece, Sophy explains the thinking behind how the event was facilitated, and offers tips for those wanting to organise similar events.
Amazing to think, but until last week,
