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24 May 2016

Emmanuel and Elizabeth at Pocheco: "Let’s change everything"

PochecoWhen you ring Pocheco, a company that makes 2 billion envelopes a year in their factory close to Lille in France, the holding message describes Pocheco as “the first ecolonomic factory in the world”.  If you ordered a copy of ’21 Stories of Transition’ from us, you will have received it in a Pocheco envelope. They are also one of the stars of the film ‘Demain‘ (see clip below). When I spoke to Emmanuel Druon and Liz Dinsdale at Pocheco, first thing I wanted to know was, what is an ecolonomic factory?

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Categories: Originally posted on Transition Network


18 May 2016

Film review: ‘This Changes Everything’

TCE logo‘This Changes Everything’, the recent film starring Naomi Klein and made by her partner Avi Lewis, is ambitious in its scope and its reach.  We meet those trying to block the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the US, Canada, India, Greece and other places, as well as those fighting for air quality in China.

The story of the First Nations of Canada coming together to resist tar sands is particularly moving, their conflating the fight against climate change with “bringing our Nation back to life”.

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Categories: Originally posted on Transition Network


17 May 2016

Bristol Energy Cooperative: "it felt right for us to be ambitious"

logoYou may have read recently about Bristol Energy Coop (BEC) and their ambitious share offer which aimed to raise £10.5 million for renewable energy projects in Bristol. They have already reached £9 million, and are still looking for the last bit, and it’s not limited to people from Bristol, so if you’d like to support them, see more info here.  BEC was set up 5 years ago in order to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy in the city, and to use that to drive local economic regeneration and to recycle benefits locally.  If that all sounds very Transition to you, as you’ll see later, it is.  I asked Andy O’Brien and Chris Speller, BEC directors, to tell us more about what they do (here is the podcast, edited transcript below):

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Categories: Originally posted on Transition Network


16 May 2016

7 things a Local Entrepreneur Forum can unlock

LEFThursday May 12th was the fifth Local Entrepreneur Forum in Totnes.  I’m not going to write the usual blow-by-blow report of the event, as I’ve done that in previous years, and in many ways this one stuck with the format of previous years, albeit with a few tweaks and different timings.  If you are wondering what a Local Entrepreneur Forum is, I took the liberty of asking Jay Tompt, its originator and co-ordinator, that very question on your behalf, and here is what he told me:

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Categories: Originally posted on Transition Network


9 May 2016

An evening in Stroud: ’10 years and beyond’

StroudTransition Stroud were the 8th ‘official’ Transition initiative, forming in 2007.  Its first big event was the visit of Richard Heinberg to the town, who gave both a public presentation and also a talk for Stroud District Council.  Since then, the group has been extremely active, and as it enters its 10th year, is focusing on how best to move forward and how to put the best foundations possible beneath the work it has already done.  One key part of this was an event called ‘Transition Stroud: 10 years and beyond’ held at the town’s Subscription Rooms, to which I was invited to speak.  Here is a podcast I made about the evening:

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Categories: Originally posted on Transition Network