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
1 Dec 2008
Volunteer researchers needed to assist in the collection of material for The Transition Guide to Food. Recent research experience preferable, as is a keen interest and experience in the subject of local food production. I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone in the Surrey/London area, so that we can work face to face – but this is not absolutely necessary. Volunteers needed from now up until Christmas. All contributors will be given due credit in the Guide. Please email Tamzin at greentamzin@gmail.com or call on 01932 702515 to discuss further.
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1 Dec 2008
Robert Perez filming an interview outside the site during his recent visit to Totnes
(Here is a press release issued to the local media today…)
New Initiative Places Food at the Centre of Healthcare Revolution
A new initiative which would offer a groundbreaking approach to health promotion and food growing in the town’s back gardens has been unveiled. The initiative, Totnes Healthy Futures, is proposed for a site in central Totnes which Devon County Council will be selling this week. It is the result of an innovative partnership between Transition Town Totnes, the Totnes Development Trust, University of Plymouth and the Leatside Surgery.
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29 Nov 2008
Coming soon… a write up of Day 2 of the Cities Conference, a film about it, writeups of all the sessions… but for now, here are some images from the 2 days in Nottingham.
Group photo in front of the venue
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27 Nov 2008
The first day of the Transition Cities Conference in Nottingham was a fascinating coming together of nearly 150 people from across the UK (as well as Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Gent in Belgium), all hosted in the Nottingham Arena, supported by Nottingham City Council. A few of us drove up from Totnes, leaving at 5am, and delays caused by an accident involving a huge Tic Tac lorry, meant we arrived with 10 minutes to spare before the start at 10am.
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26 Nov 2008
I have never actually looked at Second Life myself, but this article by Katy Duke is a fascinating look at how some people are using it to communicate Transition ideas.
Blogs… I’m hooked! (especially this one), what a phenomenally immediate way to communicate and learn… though reading them soaks up time. Well this summer I had some extra time for research, laid up with a bad back, so I tried to compile the five most succinct video messages about peak oil & climate change I could find online. Having spent some considerable time talking to complete head-in-the-sand sceptics (on a car forum), I was feeling the need for clarity & succour! What transpired was a rather novel and slightly bizarre method of communicating the message ….. here’s how it happened….
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Volunteer researchers needed to assist in the collection of material for The Transition Guide to Food. Recent research experience preferable, as is a keen interest and experience in the subject of local food production. I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone in the Surrey/London area, so that we can work face to face – but this is not absolutely necessary. Volunteers needed from now up until Christmas. All contributors will be given due credit in the Guide. Please email Tamzin at greentamzin@gmail.com or call on 01932 702515 to discuss further.
