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I wrote a while ago about the wonderful event that was the Unleashing of Transition Malvern Hills. I mentioned that at the event they showed a 20 minute film, drawing together some of the different work underway in the area. That film is now online, and you can watch it below….
Here’s something you might find to be a useful resource. It is a study produced by Energy Cities called “Governance and Vision: Visions of Cities towards a low-energy future”. It contains a very good section on Transition in Kinsale (although they perhaps didn’t get that Kinsale is a town, not a city…). It contains several other interesting case studies, and is available to browse online in that format where the pages actually turn over before your very eyes, as well as making the sound of a turning page, a format that I still find amazing and am quite awed by.
Localisation and Resilience at the Local Level: The Case of Transition Town Totnes (Devon, UK)
By Rob Hopkins
475 pp. University of Plymouth, Devon, UK – Oct. 2010. £15.00; available only in PDF at Transitionculture.org.
For several years groups of innovative, environmentally conscious people worldwide have been part of a social change movement called Transition. It strives to create relocalized communities that are resilient to the looming climate and energy crises, and in which “the future with less oil could be preferable to the present.”
Here is the first of two interviews I did recently for the new book, on the subject of the community ownership of assets. The second will be published tomorrow. Today’s is with Sara Neuff of Coin Street Community Builders, an amazing project I have written about here before.
So Sara, why is it important that communities own and run their own assets? Why does it matter?
The first response to that is that it in a sense depends upon the kind of asset and what it is you’re trying to achieve.
From my experience of going to different events which promote the concept of social enterprise, it is clear that the idea that social enterprise can be used as a driver for decarbonisation and economic localisation is a very small but emergent part of the social enterprise ‘scene’. It was therefore timely and fascinating to spend 2 days in Totnes last week exploring, in a collaboration between Transition Network, Local United and Transition Town Totnes, the role social enterprise and entrepreneurship might play in building resilience at the local level.
