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Here is a great short film, produced by the Energy Savings Trust, which looks at the work of the North Howe Transition Toun group in Scotland, in particular at their Energy Saving Toolkit. Great stuff….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sByfOxNRCWc
The moment of truth has arrived. Before I announce the winners, I must make reference to the ‘Maleny Bunga’ which, as several of you pointed out was actually called the Maleny Bunya (I blame the Transition Maleny website, which refers to the ‘Bunga’!). Seeing as it was my mistake, and that therefore strictly speaking, saying that the Bunga wasn’t a real currency was actually a correct answer, I have also accepted that as a third possible correct answer, the other two being the Belgooly Spondooley (c’mon Belgooly, make our day, go for it…) and the Glasgow Gromit. So, in no particular order, here are the 5 winners, chosen by random.org, each of whom get a copy of Pete North’s wonderful new book ‘Local Money’. Raymond Veermaak, Mary Loveday-Edwards, Guy Martin, Jonathan Dawson and Tina Boynton. Well done all…..
Here is the foreword I wrote for Pete North’s new book ‘Local Money’, which you can now order here. It really is rather fantastic (the book, that is). The book will have its formal launch at the 2010 Transition Network conference (yet another reason to be at 3 days that will blow your socks off). For now, here is my introduction to the book.
The power of holding your community’s own money.
September 2009, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton. On a beautiful evening with just the first hint of autumn in the air, hundreds of people are packed into the large room for the launch of the Brixton Pound. In the days running up to the launch, the media was full of stories about the currency; it even made the front page of the BBC website on the day. Alongside explanations of how it is intended to work and interviews with advocates were mainstream economists who, somewhat patronisingly, assured readers that this could never really work and that it was all tremendously naive and foolish.
A few weeks ago I did an interview, via Skype, for the City of Edmonton in Canada. The conversation was for part of a series called “The Way We Green”. They have now posted it online, and you can find it below (in two parts). I seem to be doing a lot of these Skype things these days, I did one yesterday to the Nova Scotia Planning Directors Conference which went very well.
For Transition groups looking to set up viable local food systems, there is a range of models to choose from. There are the better known ones such as CSAs and box schemes, and the more innovative ones, such as Food Hubs. One less well known, but equally exciting model is that being developed at Growing Communities in Hackney, who I have often written about glowingly here. For the uninitiated, here is a short film about their work:
