An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
John Papworth’s journal Fourth World Review (4WR) has recently undergone a shift in emphasis, and finds itself under new management and dedicating its focus to Transition. It has become, in effect, the Transition Journal, offering weightier articles than you might find, for example, here at Transition Culture (ie. no articles about UFOs or handbags), creating a very welcome addition to the world of Transition-related publishing. 4WR is under the very capable editorship of Jon Hughes. The most recent edition contains excellent articles, by luminaries such as Kirkpatrick Sale, Peter North and others. It is essential reading, and will be published every 2 months.
Saw a wonderful film a while ago called ‘Bombs at Teatime’, a collection of archive films made during World War Two as part of the public education campaign that led to the emergence of Dig for Victory, rationing and so on. Although they were very much of their time, media and film-making having moved on vastly since, there are still some fascinating insights here into how one might communicate thift and conservation. The first is a wonderfully stilted film called ‘Two Cooks and a Cabbage’ which is about the right and wrong way to cook a cabbage.
I have had a copy of the initial edition of this small book for many years. Graham both wrote and illustrated the book, and it has a very distinctive look and feel which are particular to his work. His particular background and his perspective on permaculture emerges from a long background in anarchism, veganism, and a more urban, communitarian approach than some more rural-focused writers such as Patrick Whitefield. He is also active in Transition Westcliffe-on-Sea.
A profoundly historic event happened yesterday. The Sun ran a front page story, an ‘exclusive’ no less, about a windfarm in Lincolnshire where one of the wind turbines was apparently “hit by a UFO”. Apparently local people had seen odd lights in the sky, heard a crash, and the next morning one of the blades from the turbine was missing and another was buckled and twisted. Spooky. The historic event was, of course, not the alleged UFO incident itself, but rather the fact that for the first time ever, wind power had been deemed important enough, and interesting enough, to grace the front page of The Sun.
The Transition Town Movement: embracing reality and resilience. By Carolyn Baker.
Sunday, 4th January 2009
For several months I have been meaning to write a review of Rob Hopkins’ The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, but other things got in the way-like a planetary economic meltdown and out of control climate change that exceeds some of the most dire predictions by climate scientists. I should have spoken out earlier in support of this movement, but I didn’t. Now, as we commence this new year, I am.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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John Papworth’s journal Fourth World Review (4WR) has recently undergone a shift in emphasis, and finds itself under new management and dedicating its focus to Transition. It has become, in effect, the Transition Journal, offering weightier articles than you might find, for example, here at Transition Culture (ie. no articles about UFOs or handbags), creating a very welcome addition to the world of Transition-related publishing. 4WR is under the very capable editorship of Jon Hughes. The most recent edition contains excellent articles, by luminaries such as Kirkpatrick Sale, Peter North and others. It is essential reading, and will be published every 2 months.
For several months I have been meaning to write a review of Rob Hopkins’ The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, but other things got in the way-like a planetary economic meltdown and out of control climate change that exceeds some of the most dire predictions by climate scientists. I should have spoken out earlier in support of this movement, but I didn’t. Now, as we commence this new year, I am.
