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Archive for “Transition Network Conference ’09” category
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25 May 2009
At the Transition Network conference, I was unable to resist going to David Fleming’s workshop, “Wild Economics: Wolves, Resilience and Spirit”. I am an enormous admirer of the great man, who was the first person to explain the concept of resilience to me, and to whom I owe a great debt in terms of ideas and inspiration. His talk was fascinating, but the notes I present here aren’t notes of the actual talk. There will be notes from most of the sessions published soon, although huge sympathies must be extended to the poor lady in front of me who was scribing the talk, which, in spite of regular requests to slow down a bit, was delivered at breathtaking speed. Safe in the knowledge that noting down the actual contents was in safe hands, I focused on the bits that were pure Fleming funny bits….
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25 May 2009
It all started so well. . . . then I lost Peter Lipman’s unique copy of the Chris Masterson Crash Course DVD. If you’ve seen it somewhere, let me know and I’ll buy dinner. If Pete ever forgives me I hope to still run the extra workshop running after the football/softball session.
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25 May 2009
So I am over at the Transition Gathering in London, to be honest I am a bit overwhelmed both with the size of the city and this conference. I arrived on Friday to a hall full of ‘transitionistas’ from all over the world. It is twice the size of last years event, there is about 400 here and I have met people here from all corners of the UK, Ireland and even the US, Australia, France, Hong Kong , and New Zealand. The mapping/ milling exercise that started the three day event helped us to get an idea of where people are from geographically, the size of their communities and what stage their Transition initiatives are at.
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23 May 2009
John Papworth writes for Fourth World Review and has been railing against all things big for 40 years. . . . he gave me his reflections in pen and ink. John, your handwriting is only slightly more legible than mine so hope I got this right. He asks us to think about the politics of Transition and understand where real power lies. . . . a contentious start here John!
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23 May 2009
It was very sunny and warm, I was hot with the rucsack, laptop and carrier bag. I decided that as Coldharbour Lane was pointing in the right direction to get me to Clapham Common, that I’d get a bus… and as I’d walked for 90 minutes, I was happy with the £2 bus fare to a stop within 4 minutes walk of the Battersea Arts Centre, a huge and imposing building where the Transition Conference was being held . . .
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At the Transition Network conference, I was unable to resist going to David Fleming’s workshop, “Wild Economics: Wolves, Resilience and Spirit”. I am an enormous admirer of the great man, who was the first person to explain the concept of resilience to me, and to whom I owe a great debt in terms of ideas and inspiration. His talk was fascinating, but the notes I present here aren’t notes of the actual talk. There will be notes from most of the sessions published soon, although huge sympathies must be extended to the poor lady in front of me who was scribing the talk, which, in spite of regular requests to slow down a bit, was delivered at breathtaking speed. Safe in the knowledge that noting down the actual contents was in safe hands, I focused on the bits that were pure Fleming funny bits….
