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8 Apr 2009
Transition Eudlo in Australian holding a 'permablitz'
Here is the latest digest of Transition-related stories that I have picked up across the web over the last 4 weeks. It offers an instructive and fascinating insight into where Transition has gone and what it is up to. The diversity of projects is fascinating. Apparently, Transition Town Exmouth’s “ranks have swelled to hundreds”, Transition Southport described as “environmentalists with a smile”, definitely a compliment in my book and Maple Ridge in Canada is considering ‘going Transition’.
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6 Apr 2009
Participants at the Transition Cities conference in Nottingham last year
270 places at the 2009 Transition Network conference are already spoken for, so if you are planning to come, do get your booking in soon. In order to make the trip to London as worthwhile as possible, and in order to make it as rich a learning opportunity as we can, Transition Network will be running a number of trainings before and after the conference which are open to conference attendees, other transitioners and non-transitioners alike. To book please follow the links below. A number of concessions are available for each course. For these please contact Kristin at 0117 963 8323 or email conference@transitionnetwork.org.
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31 Mar 2009
On Sunday, Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust, and star of the recent ‘A Farm for the Future’ programme, came round to my house to perform radical surgery on a tree of mine. The tree in question (see below left), a dessert apple, had been suffering from an odd ailment which meant that no sooner had it come into leaf, than all the leaves fell off, which in turn meant it was unable to make any fruit. Martin’s diagnosis had been that the tree had some kind of fungal virus, but was essentially healthy, and that given that none of the other apple trees suffered from the same thing, it was an ailment specific to that variety. The answer was to transform the tree into a ‘family tree’.
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29 Mar 2009
I am delighted to be able to announce that I recently became a Fellow of Ashoka, the international organisation that supports social entrepreneurs. There are over 2000 Ashoka fellows around the world, doing amazing work. I had never thought of myself as being a social entrepreneur, indeed I am still trying to work out quite what the term means, but it is a great honour to receive the support of this organisation, and what they can bring to the Transition Network is potentially fantastic.
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27 Mar 2009
Many people got in touch with Transition Network to ask how they could get copies of Rebecca Hosking’s seminal ‘A Farm for the Future’ programme. It can be viewed on Video Google now, but it is proving tricky for us to distribute copies of the film. You may therefore be interested to know that due to popular demand, the programme is being screened for a second time on BBC2 Saturday 4th April at 5.20pm. Set the recorder, and enjoy this wonderful programme a second time.
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