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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
27 Jul 2009
Following UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband’s appearance at the Transition Network conference as a ‘Keynote Listener’, we invited him to write a few words to sum up this thoughts on the experience. Unfortunately it came in just a day too late to make the latest, and rather wonderful, Transition Network newsletter, (if you don’t get it you can subscribe here), but it is very interesting. See below;
“Dear Friends
I’ve never been a “keynote listener” before – it’s probably not something that politicians tend to do. So my first experience of it was when I attended the Transition Towns conference and, going table to table to hear what people were discussing, learnt about the movement and what people want me to do in government to help.
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27 Jul 2009
The first session of the last day was ‘Cities Past and Future’. First speaker was Eric Sanderson, who gave an absolutely mesmering presentation about his work on the Mannahatta Project. It is based around asking the question, what would the land on which New York now stands have looked like in the 1600s when Hudson first rowed up the river? A simple question, but the results of the work combine cartography, GIS, biology, ethanography, and much much more.
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24 Jul 2009
- TED speaker Taryn Simon showing a photo of the Braille version of Playboy magazine (seriously)…
What an extraordinary day. I missed days one and two of TED, which, if they were anywhere near as good as today, was a big loss. A day of fascinating speakers, even the ones I disgreed with were interesting… Set in the Oxford Playhouse, the day was well presented, well hosted, and had a great buzz. It divided into 4 sections. I’ll just give a few thoughts on some of the presenters. Over at the TED blog is a detailed write up of each speaker and some good photos, far more detail than I am going to manage! So the first session was called ‘Radical Development’.
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22 Jul 2009
I don’t normally get nervous about giving talks, but I have one coming up this week that I am feeling very nervous about. I am going to Oxford to do one of the TED talks, and I have to say, I am feeling like it is somewhat stepping up a level! If you are unfamiliar with TED, they give you 18 minutes, an audience of very successful thinkers, inventors, geeks and business people, and ask you to give the talk of your life, which they film in HD and put online where it is viewed by millions of people. And Gordon Brown just did one of the first ones. No pressure then.
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21 Jul 2009
Dr. Gill Seyfang from the University of East Anglia has just published a very important piece of research, entitled “Green Shoots of Sustainability: the 2009 Transition Movement Survey” which you can download here. 94 UK Transition initiatives were sent an online questionnaire, of which 74 responded (a great response rate, thanks everyone). The results are fascinating, offering an in-depth snapshot of where this young movement is at after less than 3 years.
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Following UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband’s appearance at the Transition Network conference as a ‘Keynote Listener’, we invited him to write a few words to sum up this thoughts on the experience. Unfortunately it came in just a day too late to make the latest, and rather wonderful, Transition Network newsletter, (if you don’t get it you can subscribe here), but it is very interesting. See below;
