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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.
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4 Feb 2008
**The Bike Show** is
a weekly radio show about cycling, as you might imagine. It is broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, London’s first radio art station run by the London Musicians’ Collective. The Bike Show is presented by Jack Thurston, and a couple of weeks ago Jack popped down to Totnes to record a piece about Transition Town Totnes and cycling. He recorded a number of interviews and attended an evening discussion about cycling in the town. You can hear his piece here, its well worth a listen.
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1 Feb 2008
I wrote recently about the event in Wadebridge I spoke at with Anthony Gibson of the National Farmers Union which explored, among other things, biofuels, organics and localisation. In the interests of balance and on throwing more light onto the different perspectives that were aired that night, and offering a different perspective, here is Mr. Gibson’s regular column in the Western Morning News.
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31 Jan 2008
The last couple of weeks have rather felt like a whirlwind of talks here there and everywhere, travelling late on trains and being up far too late. People often ask about films of talks and where they are available, so here is a recent talk I did that has just been posted online. A few months ago I spoke at **Cornwall’s future – land use, resource depletion & changing climate**, a conference at Duchy College in Cornwall organised by Transition Penwith and Environment Kernow, who are part of the Cornish Strategic Partnership and who bring together a group of various organisations with an interest in sustainability in Cornwall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIXgaftMgVw
The event, which I wrote about here before, was excellent, featuring Dr. Colin Campbell, David Strahan, Patrick Holden and myself. Those good people at Environment Kernow filmed the talks and have just posted them on YouTube. Here is the first part of the talk I gave, which looked at applying the Transition approach to food and farming.
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29 Jan 2008
Not having a TV myself I missed Monty Don’s recent episode of **Around the World in 80 Gardens** where he visited Cuba and the organoponicos there. However, on the day, at least 5 different people rang me up to ask me if I had seen it, and how great it was. I therefore plan to sit down this evening and watch it on BBC I-Player, a rather wonderful new device of the BBC’s that allows you to watch the last 7 days worth of their programmes, if you feel so inclined. I’ll write more about it when I have seen it, but given that it is only available to view for another 5 days, I thought I’d mention it now.
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28 Jan 2008
Thought you might like to see the links to the **Transition Network**’s latest newsletter. In it you will find out the latest news from Network and also about the latest Transition Initiatives and a wealth of other stuff. You will also hear the latest about the 2008 Transition Network conference/gathering thing. It will be held in Cirencester 11th -13th April, and it will be THE Transition event of 2008 (pic left is of last year’s conference near Nailsworth). You can read more here.
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**The Bike Show** is
