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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.
I thought you might like to see now, rather than waiting until January, the programme for Transition Town Totnes from January to March. We just finalised the design of the flyers, which are currently being printed, but you can download the pdf versions of it here. It has an inner and an outer. It is a rather packed programme, but it does have some wonderful events, and hopefully entry points for both those who are new to the whole thing and those who have been involved for a while. I hope you enjoy it. Right, now I really am stopping.
**Transition Culture** will be taking a break for the next couple of weeks, what with it being Christmas and everything. We’ll be back posting on **January 8th** with, among other things, our slightly delayed second George Monbiot review, the 10 First Steps for a Transition Town, and the full new Transition Town Totnes programme for January to March (its a peach). Wishing you all the best for a Happy Christmas/Solstice or whatever (but not Winterval, a ghastly term I heard the other day, if you celebrate that you can do it on your own). Many thanks for all your support, comments and limericks during 2006. See you next year.
The Soil Association is the UK’s organic certification body, and they are making peak oil and the relocalisation of food the focal point of their 60th Anniversary conference in Cardiff in February. I am editing a report that will accompany the conference, which explores this deeper, and to introduce this, I recently wrote an article that appears in Living Earth Magazine, the organisation’s publication. It suggests that the concept of Energy Descent Plans could be applied to food and farming in the UK, an idea that will be explored in more depth in the report. Here is the article followed by some additions from within the Soil Association.
Most of my work in relocalisation centres around towns rather than cities, and I am often asked how I think the Energy Descent Planning approach might apply to cities. Here is a very insightful and inspiring look at what they are up to in Portland, Oregon.
It is a great example of the benefits of avoiding a them-and-us approach, as peak oil activist and local authority representative sit side by side on a sofa and talk about preparing for peak oil. Exemplary stuff, and interesting to see how their approach is similar to what we are doing, on a smaller scale, in Transition Town Totnes.
George Monbiot’s book ‘Heat’ has the feel of a landmark book to me. It is one of those books that people will look back to as somehow defining a particular moment in history, as a real line drawn in the sand. Here at **Transition Culture**, what with it being Christmas and everything, you don’t just get one review but two. We did contact the publishers to see if they would give us a couple of copies to give away in a competition, but they never got back to us. Humph. Oh well. Tomorrow you will get my review, but for today, here is Robert Morgan of Green College’s excellent review.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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I thought you might like to see now, rather than waiting until January, the programme for Transition Town Totnes from January to March. We just finalised the design of the flyers, which are currently being printed, but you can download the pdf versions of it here. It has an inner and an outer. It is a rather packed programme, but it does have some wonderful events, and hopefully entry points for both those who are new to the whole thing and those who have been involved for a while. I hope you enjoy it. Right, now I really am stopping.
