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
18 Dec 2006
Mulling over Zachary Nowak’s recent piece, Homeowner’s Insurance and Fire Extinguishers, it struck me that a key concept in the whole debate about whether one might prioritise individual survival over communal survival, or vice versa, may well be one found in the study of ecology, that of **resilience**. It is a concept I have been exploring a great deal over a lot over the last few weeks, and I have found it a useful way of looking at this whole question.
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15 Dec 2006
These are dark days indeed. Apparently the world is facing a new danger, to join peak oil and peak gas in an unholy Trinity, peak blogs. The BBC reports that apparently the middle of 2007 is when the world will hit peak blogs, and from that point total global blog post production will go into a relentless and steady decline. Although total global blog production currently stands at about 1.3 million individual posts a day (about half of which is the steady stream of over-optimistic nonsense churned out by Transition Culture), it is estimated by the analysts Gartner that the world will peak mid-2007 at around 100 million blog sites. Kenneth Deffeyes has not yet been quoted as saying anything about Thanksgiving Day, but it is surely only a matter of time.
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14 Dec 2006
I just checked the stats for **Transition Culture**, to see how many visitors I get from the Czech Republic. 0.28%. They probably both know each other. Undaunted, I am still going to share with you something of which I am inordinately proud, a Czech translation of a review I wrote of David Holmgren’s Permaculture – principles and pathways beyond sustainability, which just in case you missed it is, in my opinion, the most important book of the last 15 years. The review coincides with the publication of the Czech language edition of the book, which, if you are able to read Czech, I heartily recommend (it also has a nicer cover than the English language version). May it sell by the barrel load, and may it speed the spread of permaculture in all Czech-speaking places…. . So here, in my best Czech, is my review….
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13 Dec 2006
So one of modern history’s great murderous fascists has shuffled off this mortal coil, having successfully spent his final years avoiding justice. Margaret Thatcher’s courting of and support for Pinochet was yet another thing to add to her dreadful legacy, and as ever, who better to document both his passing and the Great White Witch’s role in his Presidency that the great Steve Bell. This is one of his simplest, most powerful and somehow, most furious, cartoons.
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13 Dec 2006
I’m sure there are very few of you out there who haven’t seen The End of Suburbia. Well, its sequel, Escape from Suburbia is on its way, you can now view the trailer over at You Tube and it does look really rather good.
Cultivate, the Centre for Sustainable Living in Dublin just showed a special 15 minute preview and the excitement is building. Have a look at the trailer, tell your friends, and brace yourself for what promises to be the mother of all sequels (even better than Dumb and Dumberer…). Hopefully we’ll be able to show it as part of Transition Town Totnes, sooner rather than later….
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Mulling over Zachary Nowak’s recent piece, Homeowner’s Insurance and Fire Extinguishers, it struck me that a key concept in the whole debate about whether one might prioritise individual survival over communal survival, or vice versa, may well be one found in the study of ecology, that of **resilience**. It is a concept I have been exploring a great deal over a lot over the last few weeks, and I have found it a useful way of looking at this whole question.
