An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
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.
Participants at the Transition Cities conference in Nottingham last year
270 places at the 2009 Transition Network conference are already spoken for, so if you are planning to come, do get your booking in soon. In order to make the trip to London as worthwhile as possible, and in order to make it as rich a learning opportunity as we can, Transition Network will be running a number of trainings before and after the conference which are open to conference attendees, other transitioners and non-transitioners alike. To book please follow the links below. A number of concessions are available for each course. For these please contact Kristin at 0117 963 8323 or email conference@transitionnetwork.org.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, while millions of column inches are being written about the G20 talks and the decisions taken there, basically to try and kickstart the global economy with exactly the same thinking that has brought it crashing around our ears in the first place, here is a picture taken by Carl Munson in Exeter that somehow captures the whole thing more succinctly than the acres of newsprint…
Saturday night was Earth Day, when, as a sign to the world leaders heading to Copenhagen, people around the world were invited to turn their lights off for an hour so as to make a detectable difference to energy consumption.Lights at the Sydney Opera House, the London Eye and the London Gherkin were all turned off, as well as in millions of homes around the world.Not one to be left out, at 8.30pm we duly got out the candles and switched off the lights for an hour.
So Shaun, you’ve just got copies of the first book you’ve ever published in your hand. What does that feel like?
Wow, what a question! Relief I think! It’s been a long process, and it feels so good to finally see the fruits of everyone’s labours that have gone into this book, and to feel that it can now go out and be a help to people. And I can’t get over how much I love the cover design – we spent ages getting it right, and I’m totally in love! I think it’ll be a while before it all sinks in. (Below is a short promotional film for the book produced by Green Books).
On Sunday, Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust, and star of the recent ‘A Farm for the Future’ programme, came round to my house to perform radical surgery on a tree of mine. The tree in question (see below left), a dessert apple, had been suffering from an odd ailment which meant that no sooner had it come into leaf, than all the leaves fell off, which in turn meant it was unable to make any fruit. Martin’s diagnosis had been that the tree had some kind of fungal virus, but was essentially healthy, and that given that none of the other apple trees suffered from the same thing, it was an ailment specific to that variety.The answer was to transform the tree into a ‘family tree’.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
Read more»
Saturday night was Earth Day, when, as a sign to the world leaders heading to Copenhagen, people around the world were invited to turn their lights off for an hour so as to make a detectable difference to energy consumption.
