Transition Culture

11 Jul 2007

A Peak Oil Play.

BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a play on Friday evening all about peak oil, called **Second to Midnight**. The use of drama and storytelling to explore issues around peak oil and climate change is one that regular readers of Transition Culture will know is of great interest to me, and has taken form in the Transition Tales initiative, an element of Transition Town Totnes. I will be interesting to hear how the BBC handles this story. It looks from the blurb (see below) that it will be a bit like the film Syriana, but set in Africa, but do tune in, we can share our thoughts on it afterwards. You’ll be able to listen to it on the BBC website.

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4 Jul 2007

Energy Descent Plans on Global Public Media.

You may be interested to listen to an interview I did with Global Public Media last week, as part of a piece about Energy Descent Plans. I’m not sure quite how coherent it was, as it was done at 4pm US time which was, unfortunately, 7am here, and I had just woken up, hence my somewhat huskier-than-usual voice. It is worth a listen, aside from hearing what I sound like at 7am, to hear the first question Andi from GPM asked me, and imagine yourself being asked that question when you’ve just woken up! Anyway, hopefully it is an interesting piece, and Global Public Media is a wonderful resource. I won’t be posting anything here for a few days, as I have the extraordinary good fortune to be marrying, this weekend, my love of the past 17 years. One should never rush into marriage I always think, and should get to know the other person first! Please pray for sunshine. Back next week.

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2 Jul 2007

Are Good Bloggers Born Or Made?

Two years ago, I’m sure I didn’t know what a blogger was. Certainly someone introducing themselves as such would have been a bit of a cause for alarm… Setting up this site and learning the ropes was a steep learning curve, and I guess that now, having been voted Britain’s 12th Best Green Blog I can claim to have got the hang of it to some extent.
I have been following with interest the blogging progress of my friend Graham Strouts who now publishes Zone5.org, it can be said that he is really finding his blogging feet now, having started posting some really good stuff, and having mastered the art of regular posting.

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27 Jun 2007

The Importance of Resilience and the History of Totnes – a Short Film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXZpUGnJ0E

Alex Munslow has been editing again, doing marvellous things with the footage he took at the Inaugural Transition Network meeting a few weeks back. This time, he has taken a section out of the talk I gave which focuses on resilience, and on the historical resilience that used to underpin the UK that we have largely dismantled, and made a short film out of it, which you can now see on YouTube. Just click on the image above, and off I go!

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26 Jun 2007

Transition Towns Going Virally Viral.

This whole Transition thing is really quite extraordinary. I spent a morning last week at a TTT Project Support group meeting, getting a sense of all that is happening in the various projects, it is quite amazing. Then I got back to see an email from Ben Brangwyn, who co-ordinates the Network, with a list of all the communities who have been in touch and who are ‘mulling over’ becoming a Transition Initiative, eyewatering. It was over 90 towns, in addition to the 17 who are now already officially Transition Initiatives. And this from there only being two (Totnes and Kinsale) last September. The momentum is growing and feels really quite unstoppable.

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