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Archive for “Transition Initiatives” category

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26 Sep 2010

Stroud’s Open Eco-Homes: The Movie!!

Here’s a short film from the recent Open Eco-Homes event in Stroud… my thanks to Philip Booth

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Categories: Climate Change, Community Involvement, Education for Sustainability, Energy, Localisation, Resilience, Technology, Transition Initiatives


24 Sep 2010

Transition as a Pattern Language: Visioning

Visioning is a core activity that will run through all the activities of your Transition initiative. It will be most obviously a key aspect of creating ENERGY DESCENT ACTION PLANS, itself an exercise in collective visioning, but will also underpin your initiative’s STRATEGIC THINKING.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Culture, Storytelling, The 'Heart' of Energy Descent, Transition as a Pattern Language, Transition Initiatives


24 Sep 2010

Transition as a Pattern Language: Arts and Creativity

The arts are a vital part of HOW OTHERS SEE US / HOW WE COMMUNICATE, and can make a great difference in terms of how an initiative is perceived. They play a key part in AWARENESS RAISING from the very first events onwards. They also play a key part in the ROLE OF STORYTELLING and producing MEANINGFUL MAPS.

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23 Sep 2010

Transition as a Pattern Language: Unleashings

An Unleashing is the culmination of your initiative’s AWARENESS RAISING work, offering the opportunity for CELEBRATING what it has already achieved, where it might go, as well as the culture of the place. As you start BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS an Unleashing can be a powerful way of publicising those new connections.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Culture, Education for Sustainability, Localisation, Storytelling, Transition as a Pattern Language, Transition Initiatives


22 Sep 2010

… This Just In From Transition Laguna Beach…

Here’s a great 2-part film from Transition Laguna Beach in the US, giving an insight into how they are doing Transition there.  They just had their Unleashing too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFvVhVLVbYo

You can see Part Two here.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Resilience, Transition Initiatives