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4 Feb 2009
We’re now at the nail biting stage of the Transition film. We’ve done some filming…some footage has come in from places as far as Japan…but we haven’t started putting it all together yet. So it’s a bit leap of faith that it’s going to work. At this stage, I’m terrified there won’t be enough or the ‘right’ shots to make it work. I’m worried that the footage that’s coming in from all over the world is going to be unusable. But this is just a normal part of the creative documentary process…
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3 Feb 2009
With investment in research and development for renewables plummeting, and the much-hyped hydrogen economy in the doldrums, its about time we had a new improbable and unfeasible energy source to get excited about. I am an avid collector of such stories, from the termite gut enzyme powered cars to the mining of the moon for Helium 3. I was delighted to read, therefore, about the dead fly powered lamps soon to be all the rage, apparently.
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2 Feb 2009
Here is a link to a rather good piece that appeared last week on BBC East Midlands, called ‘Energy Transitions’, with the subtitle “A look at how the East Midlands’ towns and cities are dealing with future energy issues”. It features some film done at the Cities Conference, as well as a look at the work of some of the local groups there. I particularly love the way she explains peak oil by walking over a bridge, very nice. Here is how they describe the programme on the Inside Out website;
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28 Jan 2009
We are often asked whether the Transition model should be adapted to explicitly reflect what is happening in the global economy at the moment. This is an ongoing discussion, and one I will return to in subsequent posts, but of course, the intertwining of what is happening in the economy and the peaking in world oil production have been explored by others, as well as the recent observation that peak demand seems to have arrived in advance of peak supply, although peak supply is, of course, not far behind. One of the tools that I personally have found extremely useful over the last few weeks in terms of really getting my head around how economics works, has been Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’.
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27 Jan 2009
The most controversial part of the course remains the inner worlds talk – linking the personal psyche with the shape of the society we have created and naming some of the patterns that arise from what is generally unconscious for people in Industrial Growth cultures. We use a model adapted from psychosynthesis, which describes both painful wounding experiences and the healthy potential states whose loss the wounds relate to as being kept out of consciousness to some extent for most individuals in our culture. The place we operate from is a place of learnt adaptation to the world around us – particularly the world of our early childhood where our first experiences of the world, of other, and of life create lasting impressions and shape our worldview.
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We’re now at the nail biting stage of the Transition film. We’ve done some filming…some footage has come in from places as far as Japan…but we haven’t started putting it all together yet. So it’s a bit leap of faith that it’s going to work. At this stage, I’m terrified there won’t be enough or the ‘right’ shots to make it work. I’m worried that the footage that’s coming in from all over the world is going to be unusable. But this is just a normal part of the creative documentary process…
