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29 Jul 2009
Transformation Moment: low carbon travel.
How, and how far, will we travel if we make the changes we need to in order to thrive in a carbon constrained society? For a range of interlocking reasons, the conclusion of this paper is that we will be happier, healthier and more resilient if we radically change from our current patterns to ones that fit into a relocalised world. In that world we will travel far less far and fast, overwhelmingly walking, cycling and using public transport.
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22 Jul 2009
I don’t normally get nervous about giving talks, but I have one coming up this week that I am feeling very nervous about. I am going to Oxford to do one of the TED talks, and I have to say, I am feeling like it is somewhat stepping up a level! If you are unfamiliar with TED, they give you 18 minutes, an audience of very successful thinkers, inventors, geeks and business people, and ask you to give the talk of your life, which they film in HD and put online where it is viewed by millions of people. And Gordon Brown just did one of the first ones. No pressure then.
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21 Jul 2009
Dr. Gill Seyfang from the University of East Anglia has just published a very important piece of research, entitled “Green Shoots of Sustainability: the 2009 Transition Movement Survey” which you can download here. 94 UK Transition initiatives were sent an online questionnaire, of which 74 responded (a great response rate, thanks everyone). The results are fascinating, offering an in-depth snapshot of where this young movement is at after less than 3 years.
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21 Jul 2009
About 2 years ago, in Totnes, Dairy Crest, the major employer in the town, closed, with the loss of 160 jobs. The site on which it was based, 8 acres adjoining the railway station and running down to the river, now stands derelict. Although most of the buildings are unspectacular steel factory buildings, it is also home to a building built by Brunel for an experimental approach to running the UK’s railway system that never took off, atmospheric railway, and also to a landmark tall chimney. A number of local groups, including Transition Town Totnes, have got together and are proposing to bring the site into community ownership and to create an visionary development that embodies the principles and opportunities of Transition. A new masterplanning document for the site has just been published, which we think is rather wonderful and exemplary, which we thought you might like to see. You can download it here.
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20 Jul 2009
It is with great sadness that I report the passing, last week, of Dr Brian Goodwin, of Schumacher College and also Trustee of Transition Network. Originally from Canada, he spent his career working in biology and mathematics, and was very involved in the Open University. Upon his retirement in 1992 he became one of the founding members of Schumacher College, where he was able to focus on his passions, morphogenesis, evolution and complexity. It was through Schumacher College that I first met Brian. He always had a twinkle in his eye, a passion for learning and knowledge and for new ideas. He was a passionate supporter of the Transition movement, serving as a Trustee from the outset, seeing it as the practical manifestation of complexity thinking in practice. You can read an interview I did with him shortly after I arrived in Totnes here, and a great article he wrote about Transition published shortly before his death, entitled ‘Resilience’, which looked at the Transition movement.
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How, and how far, will we travel if we make the changes we need to in order to thrive in a carbon constrained society? For a range of interlocking reasons, the conclusion of this paper is that we will be happier, healthier and more resilient if we radically change from our current patterns to ones that fit into a relocalised world. In that world we will travel far less far and fast, overwhelmingly walking, cycling and using public transport.
