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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.
Come find me at robhopkins.net
28 Jul 2008
Last week, Somerset County Council voted unanimously to endorse a motion that they become the UK’s first ‘Transition Local Authority’. What is means is that SCC could start taking an integrated approach to its planning processes, putting peak oil and climate change at the heart of its forward planning. It may well also unlock funds for the many Transition initiatives emerging across Somerset. The proposal put before the Council ran as follows;
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25 Jul 2008
I spent a couple of days last week attending the Green New Deal think-tank type event in London, and at one point we were asked to speak about what we thought we would see in the world in 50 months from now (late 2012). One of the things I came up with was “the first World Cup Finals to be cancelled because no-one could get to them”. While football isn’t a subject often touched on here at Transition Culture, I have to confess I love it, and am fascinated by what we might come to call ‘peak football’. Football is not immune to the credit crunch nor to rising fuel prices, and in this age of ridiculous salaries being given to top players and insane transfer fees, something, at some point, has to give, and it looks like it might be starting to happen as we speak.
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23 Jul 2008
Last Saturday we had Starhawk in Totnes giving a talk as part of Transition Town Totnes‘ programme of talks. Her talk was excellent, very inspiring (and she kept it all together even when one woman in the audience collapsed and had to be taken off in an ambulance), and at the end she did a guided visualisation thing which I thought was a very useful tool for helping people to start visualising a powered-down future. You might like to try it out with your Transition group if it feels useful… I can see places where it might come in useful, although I often avoid the term ‘visualisation’ as it can press some peoples’ woo-woo buttons… I tend to call it ‘an imagination exercise’, or somesuch…. anyway, it went something like this….
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23 Jul 2008
The day after Starhawk‘s talk in Totnes, she visited my house so that we could do a short interview. It was a gloriously sunny day, and after we had concluded the interview, I gave her a tour of my garden (well, my raised beds at least). The interview ranged across Transition work, managing grief, activism, permaculture and much more…
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22 Jul 2008
Over the last couple of months, as an outcome of the Transition Strategy Day in Bristol in April, Peter Lipman and myself have been putting together a document which explores how the Transition Network, both as the formal organisation and as the wider movement, might structure itself, entitled The Transition Network: a Proposal for Structure. The resultant document is now ready for wider consultation, and we are very keen to hear your feedback. We think it is a historic document of great importance to the future of where this whole Transition thing goes… You can download the pdf. of the document here, and you are invited to post any feedback, comments, suggestions or additions here (rather than email them to us), or leave them as comments below. Thank you!
** Update ** The date has now been set for a discussion day on the contents of this document. It will be held on Wednesday 10th September at The Full Moon in Bristol, and anyone who is involved in Transition initiatives and who wants to input into this document is welcome. It will run from 11pm until 4pm. See you there! (note change of venue).
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