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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.
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18 Dec 2008
A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business. It was just an initial exploration, but there was a great deal of useful stuff in it, and prompted by an article by Stefan Geyer in the latest Permaculture Activist magazine (wonderful as ever), who made reference to it, I thought it was time to put it out there for discussion. I hope you find it useful. The images are from the Permaculture Principles site, the best place to find out more about these principles. They have also produced a great diary and calendar which I’ll review tomorrow…
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18 Dec 2008
I have two requests to throw out today and see if anyone out there can help. I’ll go into more detail below, but in essence, Transition Network is looking for somewhere to host the 2009 Transition Conference and needs your suggestions, and Transition Town Totnes is working on its Energy Descent Plan, and needs some creative input from designers in order to maximise its brilliance. So, in more detail….
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17 Dec 2008
I love my town. Its not something we say a great deal in England. In the US, people write songs about their towns and cities (Box Elder MO, Put Your Hands Up for Detroit, New York, New York…), as well as about the roads that join them together (Highway 61), but not here. Other than bands like the Smiths, who sang songs about rented rooms in Whalley Range and other parts of Manchester, and one or two other bands (such as It’s Immaterial’s song about driving across England from the 80s), we don’t have a strong tradition of celebrating where we come from.
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16 Dec 2008
The notes from the Transition Cities conference are all now up, you can read them here. One of the highlights for me was Shilpa Shah’s workshop, on Diversity. About 25 people attended, and what follows are the notes I took during it. At the workshop Shilpa gave out a really useful handout which offers some great tools for Transition initiatives to use, which you can find here.
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15 Dec 2008
I once heard a comedian (I don’t remember who) say “we’re told we have to think about future generations… what have future generations ever done for us?” Although I try to dedicate as much of my time as possible to helping leave this planet in a better place than it was in when I popped out into the world in Chiswick Hospital many moons ago, sometimes there are jobs you find yourself doing that are so unpleasant and downright horrible that one does feel somewhat begrudging towards future generations. Like insulating under the floor for example.
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A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business. It was just an initial exploration, but there was a great deal of useful stuff in it, and prompted by an article by Stefan Geyer in the latest Permaculture Activist magazine (wonderful as ever), who made reference to it, I thought it was time to put it out there for discussion. I hope you find it useful. The images are from the Permaculture Principles site, the best place to find out more about these principles. They have also produced a great diary and calendar which I’ll review tomorrow…
