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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.
As readers of my Twitterfeed will know (my workload at the moment means that there is probably more happening there than here at the moment) I did an interview yesterday on BBC Radio Devon’s ‘Interactive Lunch’ with David FitzGerald. It was good fun, and for the next 7 days you can hear it here. My bit starts at 49 minutes 25 seconds. My apologies for the music choices, nothing to do with me. Any clever bod out there able to grab a recording of it before it is taken down again after 7 days?
I am featured in the hallowed pages of New Scientist this week in its Opinion section, under the heading “Rob Hopkins: getting over oil, one town at a time”. The only slight glitch with it is that the otherwise very attentive interviewer misheard my response when she asked when I thought we would see price volatility arising from peak oil. I said “2013”, which she heard as “2030”, thereby placing me alongside Ed Miliband and Malcolm Wicks in terms of making absurd and profoundly optimistic predictions about peak oil. Jeff Rubin would not agree with that… Oh well. Not sure it gives the best picture of what Transition is about, but here it is anyway….
Here’s a great talk by Davie Philip, long-standing master-networker, Transition Ireland Network catalyst and one man catalyst for change, speaking at day two of The New Emergency Conference: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World, held in Dublin last summer by FEASTA. Excellent.
Here is an excellent piece from the Mid-Wales Permaculture Network site, an interview which looks at how Transition initiatives build relationships with other organisations. It is very insightful, and so, with gratitude to Roz Brown and the MWPN, here it is.
Roz Brown in conversation with Dave Prescott of Transition Hay-on-Wye
The need for broad community involvement is frequently recognised by TT groups, and is certainly advocated by the fonder of the movement. But many TTs struggle to identify and work with existing community organisations to forward the process of meeting the global challenges of climate change and peak oil. One TT group in Mid Wales proceeded from the outset to foster this collaboration and work with and through other organistions. In this interview, Dave Prescott tells the story of Transition Hay on Wye.
Andreas Teuchert filmed a series of interviews at the 2009 Transition Network conference, which he edited together around three key questions. Here is the first, the other two are posted below. Thanks Andreas, they turned out really well….
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As readers of my Twitterfeed will know (my workload at the moment means that there is probably more happening there than here at the moment) I did an interview yesterday on BBC Radio Devon’s ‘Interactive Lunch’ with David FitzGerald. It was good fun, and for the next 7 days you can hear it here. My bit starts at 49 minutes 25 seconds. My apologies for the music choices, nothing to do with me. Any clever bod out there able to grab a recording of it before it is taken down again after 7 days?
