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Archive for “Localisation” category

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23 Sep 2010

Transition as a Pattern Language: Unleashings

An Unleashing is the culmination of your initiative’s AWARENESS RAISING work, offering the opportunity for CELEBRATING what it has already achieved, where it might go, as well as the culture of the place. As you start BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS an Unleashing can be a powerful way of publicising those new connections.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Culture, Education for Sustainability, Localisation, Storytelling, Transition as a Pattern Language, Transition Initiatives


21 Sep 2010

The Hale Local Food Market: a short film

Here’s a great short film about the Hale Local Food Market, started by the Hale & Redlynch Transition Group (part of New Forest Transition), lead by Richard & Paula Downard.  The market takes place on the third Saturday of every month.  I love these little films of Transition on the ground…

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20 Sep 2010

Celebrating the New Totnes PV Array with an Energy Fair!

Totnes Civic Hall, now graced with 75 photovoltaic panels...

On Saturday Transition Town Totnes held one of those events that feels really celebratory and somehow like it marks a significant step forward in the whole Transition process (well, in Totnes anyway…).  The Transition Streets Energy Fair was designed to celebrate the new photovoltaic installation on the Civic Hall, to inspire a new round of recruitment for Transition Streets, to provide the public with access to a range of renewable energy installers and information, and to raise the whole profile of renewables and energy conservation.  It did all of these, and more, in a very well-attended day with a great buzz.

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15 Sep 2010

What Can Communities Do? My Contribution to the Post Carbon Reader

My section of Post Carbon Institute’s ‘Post Carbon Reader: managing the 21st century’s sustainability crises’, due out in October, has just been published online.  You can download the pdf of my part here, and can see all the previous pdfs that have been published so far here.   For a sense of the final book, you can see the contents page here.  It’s going to be a great book. Here is an short extract of my piece:

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15 Sep 2010

More Reflections on the Big Society: from the Development Trust Association conference.

I spent yesterday at the Development Trust Association (DTA) conference at the Derby Assembly Rooms.  A fascinating day, including an interesting look at Development Trusts globally, participating in a workshop about Low Carbon Communities, and meeting some fascinating people, as one always does at such events.  The highlight for me though, and something of interest given recent discussions here at Transition Culture, was a debate about the coalition government’s ‘Big Society’ agenda (see the end of this piece for an event Transition Network is running soon to explore its implications).

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Categories: Climate Change, Community Involvement, Localisation, Politics, Resilience, Transition Network