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I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
There’s loads of great material being generated over at the Transition Conference blog, but I thought I would put the audio file of my workshop up here for your listening pleasure. The subject of the workshop was the ‘Ingredients of Transition’ which form the bulk of the forthcoming Transition Companion. You can hear the full audio of the talk here. Thanks to Chris for recording it. I didn’t talk for that long though, the bulk of the workshop consisted of two exercises which I’ll write about in more detail in another post. Both gave me some very useful insights into a possible new tool which Transition initiatives could find really useful. More later. It’s been a fantastic event so far….
I was reading through the Executive Summary of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2011 this afternoon (as you do) and the chart on page 3 (see above) caught my eye (click on it to enlarge it). In it, the authors set out all the risks they see in the world on a matrix which positions the various risks by their perceived impact on the global economy and by the perceived likelihood of their happening. What you might expect to be at the top, given recent media reports, would be the threat of terrorism or perhaps some hideous computer virus that knocks out nuclear power station. But no. There at the top, leading the pack, are climate change, ‘extreme energy price volatility’ and fiscal crises.
Things are moving along well with ‘The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times’ which is due to be published in early October. We are currently doing the fine editing and sorting out all the pictures. As part of the run-up to the publishing, Green Books have produced what’s called a ‘blad’ (“Book Layout And Design”), which gives a taste of the layout, style and contents in a little 16 page booklet. You can download it as a pdf here. A free printed copy of the blad will be given to everyone who attends this weekend’s Transition Network conference in Liverpool. We think it’s going to be gorgeous, and is in a quite different style from the previous Transition books. You can keep up to speed with developments either here or over at Green Books’ website. We are currently planning a few launch events for the book… if you have any ideas for one, do get in touch…
I put this in yesterday’s June roundup, but I love it so much that I think it also deserves a post all to itself. Transition Bath recently made over an unloved bed in the very prominent Hedgemead Park in Bath, and made a great short film about it…
Here is a great short film from RTE in Ireland about Transition Towns Donabate/Portrane‘s ‘Chicken Link’ scheme. A very straightforward idea which looks to be really catching on….
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