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Archive for “Transition Initiatives” category
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17 Dec 2009
A Copenhagen Christmas Present: December 15th 2009. Copenhagen.
Coca Cola ads on billboards around Copenhagen
As many have now written, the Cop15 conference, which is focussed on creating a treaty that will prevent our climate from undergoing a systems state change and re-establishing itself in a new stable state that much less conductive to human survival, seems certain to fall far short of what is needed or fail completely. In describing what the treaty has to do I am calling attention to the meta narrative in the story of these negotiations. That is we have a self referential system, our economic and politic systems which takes little account of the ecology of our planet. We think in terms that ignore the basis of life.
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17 Dec 2009
Thanks to Andrea Berardi over at the Transition Network forum for the heads-up on this one. The Open University has just launched its Creative Climate website, and it includes two excellent films about Transition, the first one is about Totnes, and is one of the most in depth films about TTT yet done, and the second is about Transition Town Brixton, made by a member of the organisation. Excellent films both. Unfortunately they can’t be embedded, so pop over to Creative Climate and watch them there. Bit chilly today isn’t it? My fingers have only just thawed out from the ride into work.
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16 Dec 2009
At the Transition North conference in Slaithwaite in November, local young people Ruby, Hayley, Eugene, Paddy, Adrian and Linda, who are part of the Two Valleys Radio project, spent the day recording, photographing and editing, and managed to get a visual and audio record of the day together in time for it to be played during he plenary session. The result is a really engaging snapshot of the energy of the day. You can see it here (you will need a QuickTime player).
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16 Dec 2009
This report comes from Ben Brangwyn of Transition Network, who is out in Copenhagen flying the Transition flag while avoiding getting teargassed.
I’m finding that Copenhagen has a very intense and charged atmosphere, and largely positively so. Transition Network and the transition ideas have a good visibility over here, with involvement in at least 7 workshops and a steady stream (and occasional tsunami) of people from all over the world to our stand in the Expo area, interviews with several of the excellent broadcasting outfits (PositiveTV and ClimateTV) and a screening of “In Transition 1.0” in the main hall at KlimaForum.
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15 Dec 2009
Naresh Giangrande recently sent a second epistle from Copenhagen, this time in the form of an interview with Tim Jackson. Tim is the Economic Commissioner for the Sustainable Development Commission, and is author of ‘Prosperity Without Growth‘, which is brilliant, and which I am currently half-way through. You can hear the interview by clicking this link here. A fascinating look at what Transition Economics might look like…
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