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
2 Apr 2007
We just added a ‘Donations’ button, over there on the right. **Transition Culture** has been going for a year and a half now, updated most days, determinedly independent and unwilling to accept advertising from anyone, and leading the way on ideas, tips, musings and rants about how we might enable our collective transition to an oil-free world. The feedback we get from you is very positive, you seem to really appreciate what is offered here. All of this is offered for free, and always will be, even though
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2 Apr 2007
**Crude Awakening – the Oil Crash** is to peak oil what “An Inconvenient Truth” was to climate change. A cinema quality, feature film length movie that communicates the whole message. Transition Town Totnes is delighted to be able to present the South West premiere of the film on Thursday evening at The Barn Cinema, Dartington at 8pm. There are still some tickets left, and the film will be followed by a panel discussion which I will be chairing. You can read my review of the film here. See you there!
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29 Mar 2007
The Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability in West Cork is running a very full set of courses, with a wider range of subjects than in previous years, and featuring, as is becoming a regular part of their calendar, the 9 Day Cob Building course with Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley. If you are interested in learning cob building, you couldn’t do better than to spend 9 days with Linda and Ianto, it is the course that has changed many lives! The Hollies is a beautiful place, and being there is an opportunity to see Thomas and Ulrike’s stunning cob house, the pizza house, the stoves, the gardens, the tree plantings, as well as learning in beautiful place. Although as one of its founder members I would say that, I really can’t recommend the learning experiences that The Hollies continues to offer highly enough, and it is wonderful to see that their education efforts are not only continuing but expanding. The full programme of events is as follows;
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28 Mar 2007
You might be interested in an interview with me over at the excellent **Treehugger**. Treehugger have been enthusiastic about Transition Towns for some time now, and this culminated in this interview I did with them a few days ago. Not much else to say about it really, other than have a look, you might find it interesting.
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27 Mar 2007
At risk of sounding like an eco-misery guts (moi?) I must just share my sense of something not being quite right as I find myself walking around in Plymouth in a t-shirt, sweating, passing children playing in fountains, others eating ice creams, and hundreds of people lying on the grass sunbathing… and its not even April yet. I realise I should be able to switch off and revel in the glorious unseasonal weather, but I can’t help feeling something’s not right. My mind goes back to family holidays as a child in April in Devon, where cold and rain was commonplace, and the odd bit of sun was a nice treat. Then, unsettled weather was the norm, now we have unsettling weather, and I’m not sure which I prefer…
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