15 Sep 2006
Unleashing Transition Town Totnes Feedback #3. Steps We Can Take.
Finally, people were invited to reflect in pairs on the following question, “the steps I can take towards this vision are
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15 Sep 2006
Unleashing Transition Town Totnes Feedback #1. Our Concerns.
At the **’Official Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes’** on September 6th 2006, people were invited to reflect in pairs on the following question, “when I think about issues such as peak oil and climate change, my concerns are”. These were then written up on post-it notes and stuck on the wall for all to see. They are reproduced below (there are lots of them!).
13 Sep 2006
Meg Wheatley on Energy Descent Planning – Part One.
**Interview with Meg Wheatley – Schumacher College. Wednesday, 14th June 2006. Part One.**
*I was very lucky when Meg was at Schumacher College earlier this year to get to spend an hour with her, asking her for her thoughts about the Energy Descent Planning process. She had spent the previous afternoon reading through the Kinsale plan, and I was fascinated to hear her thoughts on how her work to do with complexity theory and change would relate to it. I wasn’t disappointed. I found this interview hugely insightful and illuminating, and it gave me lots of ideas which I am gradually working into my work. Second part tomorrow…*
12 Sep 2006
The Tupperware Approach to Relocalisation.
When I played guitar in a rather fine Bristol band called ‘Little, Big’ many years ago, I used to find that I would hear a song somewhere and kick myself that I hadn’t thought of it. Seemed so obvious, putting that chord with that verse, and it ending up sounding like that. Same happens to me now with ideas. I just came across a wonderful piece on the Relocalisation Network (via. Energy Bulletin) by Chérie McGregor called “A party plan for raising peak oil awareness”. It’s simple premise, that is so obvious and wonderful that I am sat wondering why no-one had thought of it before!
11 Sep 2006
The Great Adventure of Energy Descent – Chris Johnstone at the Transition Town Totnes launch.
**Here is an edited transcript of the talk that Chris Johnstone gave at the launch of Transition Town Totnes at Totnes Civic Hall on 6th September 2006.**
Although there is a practical side to energy descent, what I want to look at is the psychological side to energy descent. I’m going to talk for a short while, and then I’m going to introduce a process where you talk to each other, because you’re the people of Totnes, you’re going to be involved in this, and therefore it’s really important that you hear from each other what you think and feel about this. I’m going to offer a structured process that will last about 20 minutes and then we’ll have some time for questions at the end.
