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13 Sep 2012

Off to the Transition Network conference 2012

So, it’s bag-packing time as I get ready to set off to Battersea for the Transition Network conference.  There probably won’t be much activity on these web pages over the duration of the conference as it tends to be hectic bonkers from start to finish and little time to sit and blog.  However, there will be lots of Social Reporters activity going on on the Transition Network’s Conference 2012 blog, with audio files, photos, blogs, tweets and whatever, all lovingly collated here.  Several people have asked if there will be a live streaming for those who can’t make it.  There won’t, and the simple reason is that it’s not that kind of conference.  There aren’t presentations to the whole conference, rather lots of workshops, breakouts, Open Spaces and so on.

The Social Reporters will be trying to capture what they can, but by its nature it’s a hard one to document in the traditional fashion (if you are attending, and would like to be part of this, please chat to the lovely Social Reporters).  Last year lots of people got in touch who had followed it remotely to say how well it worked, so let’s hope it works as well this year.  Likelihood is I’ll be mostly Tweeting (@robintransition) using the hashtag #tnconf2012.  So, see you on the other side…

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13 Sep 2012

New video: The day Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall visited Atmos Totnes

I wrote a couple of days ago about the recent Atmos Totnes event when Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was unveiled as a new Patron of the community’s attempt to bring the former Dairy Crest site into community ownership.  Here’s a great short film of the event made by Chris Watson of Smith & Watson.

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Categories: Atmos Totnes, Community Involvement


13 Sep 2012

Transition Network conference 2012 preview: No:19 – James Marriott on The Oil Road

At the Transition Cabaret on Saturday evening, to be hosted by Matt Harvey, James Marriott from pioneering arts and activism organisation Platform will be one of the performers, telling stories from his recent experiences walking the oil pipeline that brings oil from the Caspian Sea to Northern Europe.  We asked him, via the wonders of Skype, to tell us more:

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12 Sep 2012

Transition Network conference 2012 preview: No:18 – Suzanne Dennis on Mentoring for Transition

Suzanne Dennis will be running, along with Lyndsey Stewart, a workshop at the 2012 Transition Network conference on the role of mentoring in Transition as a way of avoiding burnout and building personal resilience.  I asked her more about what the workshop would cover and what participants might expect to get out of it:

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12 Sep 2012

What is the Transition movement? A session at the 2012 World Student Environmental Summit

At the World Student Environmental Summit at Université de Lausanne on Sep. 6th, 2012, a whole session was dedicated to Transition, and I beamed in for a Skype Q&A near the end.  It’s a great overview and introduction to Transition:

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Categories: Climate Change, Community Involvement, Education for Sustainability, Localisation, Peak Oil, Resilience, Storytelling, Transition Initiatives, Transition Network