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This month’s round up covers two months, because this time last month half of the team that lovingly create these round ups was away when they should have been producing this. As a result it’s a bit of a whopper. The latest Transition Bristol newsletter begins “In this issue…. The Bristol Pound is coming, the Bristol Pound is coming, oh, and lots of other stuff too! Read on”. That seemed like a good way for us to start too. The Bristol Pound, the vastly exciting imminent launch of a city-wide currency that is creating a frenzy of media interest, is nearly here. Here is a short film about it:
We wrote recently about the 384 small blackboards that have been created for the closely-guarded workshop/happening/event that will be the focus of Sunday morning at the Transition Network conference. Mystery has surrounded the event, people wondering what possible use we could have for all those blackboards. Suggestions have included “ineffective Jenga” and a rather dangerous and useless substitute frisbee. Here though, Ruth Ben-Tovim, one of the conference organisers, gives a few teasers as to what it’s all about and what you might be able to expect.
Why might it be that in a workshop in Somerset this weekend, 384 small blackboards were lovingly measured, cut out, sanded and painted for the 2012 Transition Network conference? What role could they possibly be set to play at the event, at which point in the programme might they be handed out? Might they be a new, low energy, low carbon rival to the iPad, a ‘Slate’ rather than a ‘Tablet’? Might it be for the 2012 Noughts and Crosses Olympics? There’s only one way to find out, you’ll have to come along and be part of this annual celebration of all things Transition, although we’d love to hear your guesses in the comments section below…
Here are some photos that tell the story of their manufacture…
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This month’s round up covers two months, because this time last month half of the team that lovingly create these round ups was away when they should have been producing this. As a result it’s a bit of a whopper. The latest Transition Bristol newsletter begins “In this issue…. The Bristol Pound is coming, the Bristol Pound is coming, oh, and lots of other stuff too! Read on”. That seemed like a good way for us to start too. The Bristol Pound, the vastly exciting imminent launch of a city-wide currency that is creating a frenzy of media interest, is nearly here. Here is a short film about it:
