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
10 Oct 2007
An excellent documentary aired on BBC Wales last night, called **Back to the Land**, which was part of a series called ‘Week In, Week Out’. In featured Patrick Holden, the director of the Soil Association, discussing peak oil and the impact that finding out about it had on his life and on how he farms his farm in Wales, as well as looking at the bigger implications of its ramifications for food and farming. It also included interviews with myself and some peak oil deniers, and sets out a strong argument that the transition to life beyond oil could actually bring many benefits to society. You can watch the film here for the next week.
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10 Oct 2007
**Global Public Media** just posted a great interview with Klaus Harvey of Transition Town Kinsale which looks at what has happened in Kinsale since the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan (KEDAP) was produced two years ago. Global Public Media has followed the Kinsale story since the beginning. The first mention of interesting things afoot in Kinsale came in an interview with Richard Heinberg when he was in Kinsale in June 2005 at the Fuelling the Future conference, the event where the KEDAP was first released. In it he mentions the KEDAP (which he calls “an extraordinary document”) and gives a sense of what a powerful event it was.
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9 Oct 2007
My final installment of reflections on ASPO 6 in Cork is a very short one. Partly because you are all no doubt fed up of hearing about it by now, and secondly because it is actually very short. It was something I overheard on the coach on the way to the registration on the first evening. There were lots of delegates from China at the conference, many of whom were sitting behind me on the bus. A woman got on the bus and sat down next to two Chinese guys and said “you come from China?”, to which they both replied in the affirmative. After a short pause she asked “long trip?”.
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5 Oct 2007
Since it began in September 2000, the Kinsale Practical Sustainability/Permaculture course has gone from strength to strength. This year the course could have filled twice over, and it has the largest amount of second years yet. Hundreds of people have passed through it, spent one or two years immersed in permaculture design and then gone off back into the world again. Where did they all go? What are they all doing now? Second year student Jeannie Timony has set up a website called Permies Portal to encourage past and present students to get in touch with each other. If you were ever a student at Kinsale please check out the site and post your details…. it’d be great to hear what you are all up to.
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4 Oct 2007
A while ago I told you about an interview I had done with Global Public Media which explored in depth the Transition concept. In the meantime, the very noble Kristin Sponsler has actually gone through it and transcribed the whole thing. I thought you might find it of interest… Many thanks to Andy, Julian and the GPM team for making it available.
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An excellent documentary aired on BBC Wales last night, called **Back to the Land**, which was part of a series called ‘Week In, Week Out’. In featured Patrick Holden, the director of the Soil Association, discussing peak oil and the impact that finding out about it had on his life and on how he farms his farm in Wales, as well as looking at the bigger implications of its ramifications for food and farming. It also included interviews with myself and some peak oil deniers, and sets out a strong argument that the transition to life beyond oil could actually bring many benefits to society. You can watch the film here for the next week. 
