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7 May 2009
Here is the latest month’s worth of stories about Transition that you may have missed from across the world’s media. There are some fascinating stories in here. Have a delve and a rummage… think of it as a kind of Transition Lucky Dip. First, and most usefully, there is the May 2009 Transition Network Newsletter, which has links to yet more stories, and you can subscribe to free here. The ‘Who We Are and What We Do‘ document has been translated into Italian (see left)! Well done all. Transition Kirkbymoorside have been making the news, not once but twice. Then there’s the Lewes Pound, which is set to expand, with £1, £5 and £10 notes being issued in July. and is being followed by Stroud, who are about to launch something very similar.
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5 May 2009
"Road Paint Fail"
It is often said that in Transition we celebrate our failures as much as our successes, and that an openess and honesty about when things fail is vital for Transition to proceed. In the film ‘Garbage Warrior’, the thing that most incensed Michael Reynolds when he lost his building permit was that “they have taken away my right to fail”. I was delighted therefore last week to come across the website FailBlog.org. It is a site that celebrates failure in all its many form. It has a sharp eye for things done badly, or disastrously, and as I explored its posts on Friday lunchtime, my roars of laughter could be heard resounding throughout Transition Towers. One of my favourites is this one, on the left. Give yourself half an hour or so to have a look through it, it’s a treasure trove of inspired failure.
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24 Apr 2009
It is a few months now since Somerset County Council (SCC) passed unanimously their resolution to become a Transition Local Authority. You can read more about that, and the resolution itself here. Since then, the Somerset resolution has inspired Leicestershire County Council to do the same, and interest is growing from other authorities. Cllr Philip Booth in Stroud recently wrote a very good summary of all that is happening with local government and Transition across the country. It was therefore a fascinating and potentially far-reaching day on Friday 3rd April when a day was held in Taunton to explore what this might actually mean.
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23 Apr 2009
Here is a wonderful story, sent to me by my friend Peter, offering a kind of Transition Tale in reverse. Transition Tales, as readers of ‘The Transition Handbook’ will be aware, are stories from a powered down future set out in such a way as to help them to imagine what a successfully powered-down world might be like. The opposite of a Transition Tale would be a story from the present, so stupid and mind-bending, yet with its own internal logic, that somehow neatly sums up the blockages to our ever reaching that world. Tesco’s recent ‘Flights for Lights’ promotion is such a story.
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22 Apr 2009
Many Transition initiatives struggle to fund their work, and in their early stages, to fund members of the group undertaking Transition Training. Ben Metz of Ashoka is involved with Transition Town Hackney in London, and here he writes of an innovative approach he developed for raising funds so that members of the group could do the training. This approach could be used in many different ways….
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