Transition Culture has moved
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
Earlier this week I did an interview for BBC World Service’s ‘One Planet’ programme, which you can now hear at their website here or download the podcast here. A very enjoyable experience, it is not every day that the BBC buys you soup and pays for it in Totnes Pounds!
Here’s a fascinating piece from Ekklesia about the recent Churches in Transition conference in Scarborough.
“Christian Ecology Link have launched a support network for “Churches in Transition”, part of the Transition Towns movement, and has held a major national conference on the transition to low carbon lives. At their bi-annual gathering in Scarborough this weekend, 50 participants from across the Christian spectrum came together to explore the implications of climate change and ‘peak oil’.
…which according to my trusty Babelfish means “The Transition Towns movement – cities and humans in the change”, or something. Anyway, here’s a great short film for German speakers out there, featuring Brixton, Totnes and a Transition Training somewhere… but sufficiently understandable to be a very interesting way for non-German speakers to pass 8 minutes. Congratulations also to Transition Town Lewes for making the Independent on Sunday magazine this weekend.
We haven’t done one of these for a while, so here, thanks to the marvel that is Google Alerts, is a taste of some of things underway out there in Transition-land. For more regular and formal updates you can subscribe to Transition Network News, but these irregular digests offer a more informal and random insight into what you are up to. Congratulations to Transition Horncastle for being selected to compete in the British Gas Green Streets project, which could win them £100,000 to spend on a local environmental project if they are the best at achieving the Green Streets project’s objectives. And well done TT West Kirby for being awarded funds for their Youth Inclusion Project. Congratulations also to TT Kingston for their Green Guardian award and TN’s Shaun Chamberlin’s Green Champion award, both sponsored by the Kingston Guardian newspaper and the local council.
As readers of my Twitterfeed will know (my workload at the moment means that there is probably more happening there than here at the moment) I did an interview yesterday on BBC Radio Devon’s ‘Interactive Lunch’ with David FitzGerald. It was good fun, and for the next 7 days you can hear it here. My bit starts at 49 minutes 25 seconds. My apologies for the music choices, nothing to do with me. Any clever bod out there able to grab a recording of it before it is taken down again after 7 days?
