14 Jan 2010
A Short Film about what Transition Calgary are up to
Thought you might like this… only 3 minutes but a nice flavour of what Transition looks like in Calgary.
An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
Transition Culture has moved
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.
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11 Jan 2010
A Draft Guide for Holding Transition Hustings
A small group of us have spent the last few weeks working on what will become a booklet for Transition initiatives, which will help with the setting up of community grillings of our political candidates, allowing constituents to assess the degree of resilience thinking in their policies. It could provide the basis for an event, co-run with a range of other similar local organisations. It sets out how to do hustings, a guide to what resilience means, and also 10 Frequently Asked Questions that might arise. We are now throwing the draft over to you for your thoughts and consideration. We hope you find this useful, and look forward to your thoughts.
7 Jan 2010
A Delicious Array of Short Films about Transition
Here is a selection of 7 new short films about Transition, uncovered in a short rummage around on the internet. They demonstrate the dazzling diversity of things underway around the world, talks, events, community film-making, as well as personal reflections on the process. I love the fact that it is so easy to make short films and post them online (so I’m told), and the great stories that that allows to be captured. Sit back and enjoy…..
1. An unnamed gentleman somewhere in the US reflects on Transition while making toast in his kitchen after attending his first Transition meeting (great views of his ceiling)
4 Jan 2010
A Recipe for the New Decade
So, welcome to 2010. This new decade of limits, of huge possibilities and possibilities, of coming home to where we are, of reskilling, reconnecting and relocalising. While Sharon Astyk has offered her cogent predictions for the new year, and Richard Heinberg has offered powerful analyses as to why tackling climate change is down to us rather than waiting for the Copenhagen re-run in Mexico to sort it out, I want to mark my first post here in 2010 with a recipe. It somehow feels representative of the challenges of the new decade, embodying some of the qualities we need, as well as being highly delicious. It is Traditional Bread Sauce, although we could call it Transitional Bread Sauce (as my fingers mistyped it when I initially typed it in).
21 Dec 2009
Editorial from Western Morning News: “Hippy Town Comes of Age”
The Western Morning News is a daily paper that covers the South West of England. Often its editorials denounce the idea of windfarms, and its letter pages are often full of climate sceptics. All the more heartening that the following editorial appeared in today’s paper, alongside a very good news piece about TTT’s DECC award. An editorial like this would have been unimaginable a couple of years ago, it is fascinating how fast things are moving. I must say though that I have lived in Totnes for nearly 5 years now, and have yet to see a carved bar of soap (see below)!
“The South Devon town of Totnes has come in for a fair bit of criticism over the years as the South West capital of the ‘alternative culture’. Listen to the jeers of its critics and you would think the average resident of the TQ9 postcode was a sandal-wearing, crystal-gazing soap carver subsisting entirely on brown rice and organic parsnips.
