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Here’s a great short film about the Hale Local Food Market, started by the Hale & Redlynch Transition Group (part of New Forest Transition), lead by Richard & Paula Downard. The market takes place on the third Saturday of every month. I love these little films of Transition on the ground…
Totnes Civic Hall, now graced with 75 photovoltaic panels...
On Saturday Transition Town Totnes held one of those events that feels really celebratory and somehow like it marks a significant step forward in the whole Transition process (well, in Totnes anyway…). The Transition Streets Energy Fair was designed to celebrate the new photovoltaic installation on the Civic Hall, to inspire a new round of recruitment for Transition Streets, to provide the public with access to a range of renewable energy installers and information, and to raise the whole profile of renewables and energy conservation. It did all of these, and more, in a very well-attended day with a great buzz.
(Here is a message recieved from Gerd Wessling in Germany…) In partnership and parallel to the upcoming Transition conference in Scotland (more info to follow), the German Transition Network is very happy to announce the first ever Transition-conference in Hannover/Germany from November 19th – 21st! It will be primarily a German-speaking conference; with some English-speaking elements too (e.g. when linking up to Scotland). We will also work on the theme of broadening; but even more so see this conference as a wonderful way of all Transitioners (and those who want to become such!) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux etc. to connect, work together in defining what Transition is and will be in the German-speaking countries/culture & have a lot of fun together! More information can be found here, or contact konferenz (at) transition-initiativen.de.
My section of Post Carbon Institute’s ‘Post Carbon Reader: managing the 21st century’s sustainability crises’, due out in October, has just been published online. You can download the pdf of my part here, and can see all the previous pdfs that have been published so far here. For a sense of the final book, you can see the contents page here. It’s going to be a great book. Here is an short extract of my piece:
Catrina Pickering, Transition Network’s Diversity Co-ordinator, has just published the first Diversity Newsletter, which will become a regular feature. Future newsletters will be posted on the Transition Network site, where you can also subscribe to it.
Transition Network Diversity News: September 2010
Inclusion in Transition
What can we do to become more inclusive? This is a question that we at the Transition Network are starting to grapple with and if we’re going to grapple with it well, we’ll need your help, input and ideas too. What kind of inner change might need to undertake in order to become a more inclusive movement? Your thoughts on this – from the mundane to the sublime to the completely off the wall – are very welcome. Are we absolutely insisting on inclusion and holding it at the core of everything we do is it more of a “well, that would be nice but let’s wait until after the Transition”? To find out more and post your thoughts on this discussion, read the blog post on inclusion in Transition here.
