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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.
Transition Culture now gets lovingly picked up, wrapped in bits of cloth and old newspapers and put into a snuggly little box in the cupboard under the stairs in order to hibernate peacefully for a couple of weeks while I do family Christmas things and New Year things and generally take a break. Normal service (whatever that is) will be resumed on Monday January 4th. Have a great break yourselves, and thanks for your company here over the last year.
The Western Morning News is a daily paper that covers the South West of England. Often its editorials denounce the idea of windfarms, and its letter pages are often full of climate sceptics. All the more heartening that the following editorial appeared in today’s paper, alongside a very good news piece about TTT’s DECC award. An editorial like this would have been unimaginable a couple of years ago, it is fascinating how fast things are moving. I must say though that I have lived in Totnes for nearly 5 years now, and have yet to see a carved bar of soap (see below)!
“The South Devon town of Totnes has come in for a fair bit of criticism over the years as the South West capital of the ‘alternative culture’. Listen to the jeers of its critics and you would think the average resident of the TQ9 postcode was a sandal-wearing, crystal-gazing soap carver subsisting entirely on brown rice and organic parsnips.
In order to completely contradict my previous post, here is a panel discussion from the Klimaforum, chaired by Naresh Giangrande, with May East, Jonathan Dawson, Sophy Banks and Miguel Valencia. Thanks to YourClimate.tv for making this available.
So Copenhagen has been and gone, with no meaningful agreement being reached, and now the politicians and lobbyists have headed home having failed to do anything meaningful to address this staggeringly pressing challenge. Hugo Chavez came up with the quote of the fortnight when he observed “if the climate was a bank, they would already have saved it”. The gathering of the environmental/climate change movement in the Klimaforum with its dedicated bringing together of green luminaries and activists failed to have any meaningful impact on the proceedings, as did the mass street protests, designed to shame delegates into meaningful action and to draw a line in the sand. In short, the responses that the alternative movement/protest culture/social justice movement usually rolls into action when such events take place, didn’t work. So, might we do things differently next time?
Thought you might like to see this short film of the TTT Christmas party, which shows the moment when we were able to tell everyone about the success of our Low Carbon Communities Challenge application.
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Transition Culture now gets lovingly picked up, wrapped in bits of cloth and old newspapers and put into a snuggly little box in the cupboard under the stairs in order to hibernate peacefully for a couple of weeks while I do family Christmas things and New Year things and generally take a break. Normal service (whatever that is) will be resumed on Monday January 4th. Have a great break yourselves, and thanks for your company here over the last year.
