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22 Sep 2011

A Story of Transition in 10 Objects: Number 3. Part of an old gas lamp

Here is the third film in the ‘Story of Transition in 10 objects’ series, this time looking at a part from an old Victorian gas lamp from Malvern. You will be able to read more about this, and many other Transition stories, in the forthcoming ‘The Transition Companion’.

https://vimeo.com/29423589

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Categories: Climate Change, Community Involvement, Great Reskilling, Localisation, Resilience, Storytelling, Technology, The Transition Companion, Transition Initiatives, Waste/Recycling


21 Sep 2011

‘Transition in the UK’: my talk at Sunrise Off Grid 2011

Here, thanks to those good people over at PermanentCultureNow, is a film of the talk I gave at this summer’s Sunrise Off Grid Festival in Somerset.  Part 3 also includes the ‘milling’ exercise with the ingredients cards which will be available to download and use on October 27th, the official launch date of The Transition Companion.

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

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19 Sep 2011

The Story of Transition in 10 Objects No.2: Bertie and Gertie

Here is the second in the ‘Story of Transition in 10 Objects’ films, which tell some of the stories from the forthcoming ‘The Transition Companion‘.  It tells the story of Bertie and Gertie from Tooting.

https://vimeo.com/29140911

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Categories: Community Involvement, Diversity, Education for Sustainability, Storytelling, The 'Heart' of Energy Descent, The Transition Companion, Transition Initiatives


15 Sep 2011

Exploring the Ingredients for Transition: webcast now available

On Monday I did the second webinar for Transition US, looking at the ‘ingredients’ of Transition, and answering lots of questions about Transition sent in by people from across the US.  You can now listen to it in full here.  I started out by telling people that it was, in a way, an illustrated talk, in that I had uploaded a picture online they could look at, taken from the forthcoming ‘The Transition Companion’ (which you can pre-order now).  Beautifully created by Marina Vons-Gupta, it communicates the idea of embarking on Transition being like opening the larder door and picking the ingredients for creating what you have decided to create.  Anyway, thanks to everyone who made it possible, and enjoy the recording.

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14 Sep 2011

Bringing the cover of The Transition Handbook to life

We have reported here before about the spread of Transition in France, well here is something rather great from Fontainbleu near Paris where a Transition initiative is emerging.  Judging by the amount of requests we get to use the drawing on the front cover of the Transition Handbook for posters, flyers, websites and so on, it’s fair to say people are rather fond of it.  But have a look at this rather lovely animation the Fontainbleu group have done with it. Aw, isn’t that lovely…

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