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Archive for “The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent” category
Showing results 101 - 105 of 230 for the category: The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent.
6 Mar 2008
The Board Game is a great tool for the identification and design of a project’s many stages, developed by John Croft of the Gaia Foundation of Western Australia. It also creates a checklist to which one can return as the project progresses, to get a sense of how it is progressing. At an early stage in the Transition Initiative, the initial group of people who are passionate about the process comes together.
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1 Mar 2008
The Transition Handbook From oil dependency to local resilience.
Reviewed by Graham Strouts of Zone5.org
“The concept of energy descent, and of the Transition approach, is a simple one: that the future with less oil could be preferable to the present, but only if sufficient creativity and imagination are applied early enough in the design of this transition.” -Rob Hopkins, The Transition Handbook
The publication of the much anticipated Transition Handbook marks the latest landmark in what has become the fastest growing environmental movement since CND in the 1960s: the phenomenon that is sweeping the UK, the Transition Towns movement.
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18 Feb 2008
**Learning, connecting, leading – a two-day Transition Training event, exploring leadership within a Transition perspective.**
(*From publicity by the course organisers*). We felt that with so many communities embarking on the transition journey, now was the time to launch a training event that targets individuals who are stepping into leadership roles within transition initiatives throughout the network. The first instance of this course will be 20/22-June-2008.
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21 Jan 2008
I hadn’t even thought about having a Facebook site, but then recently I started getting lots of emails from people asking to be my friends on Facebook. An interesting concept. I had always avoided things like that before, thinking that anything that might in any way add to the tsunami of email that washes over me every day is best avoided. However, motivated by a curiosity about this new medium, and the ease of setting one up (just list your favourite things and stick a nice picture in), I set one up. Then, after a couple of weeks, I read Tom Hodgkinson’s piece With Friends Like These in the Guardian last week, and after some reflection I have deactivated my Facebook site.
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16 Jan 2008
**7. What are the problems being encountered? Is there resistance? What groups don’t like what’s happening? Is the corporate world hostile, the supermarkets?**
There may be, but I haven’t encountered any yet. Indeed, I would interpret such a response as being a failure of the process, as it should, from the outset, not be possible to interpret a Transition Initiative as confrontational or threatening. Richard Heinberg has described Transition Initiatives as being “more like a party than a protest march”, and to encounter strong resistance would indicate to me a failure of engagement.
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