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
21 Jan 2008
I hadn’t even thought about having a Facebook site, but then recently I started getting lots of emails from people asking to be my friends on Facebook. An interesting concept. I had always avoided things like that before, thinking that anything that might in any way add to the tsunami of email that washes over me every day is best avoided. However, motivated by a curiosity about this new medium, and the ease of setting one up (just list your favourite things and stick a nice picture in), I set one up. Then, after a couple of weeks, I read Tom Hodgkinson’s piece With Friends Like These in the Guardian last week, and after some reflection I have deactivated my Facebook site.
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17 Jan 2008
**8. Do you have a document setting out inspiring achievements, examples of what some towns have done? I am not sure the information on the website is what I have in mind here; maybe need a short overview document that could be given to students in courses like mine.**
Not yet, although some of that will be gathered together in The Transition Handbook when it comes out. We are currently looking to redesign the website so that that kind of information will be easier to access, so that say, the food group in Lewes can learn from the best practices of other Transition food groups around the country.
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16 Jan 2008
**7. What are the problems being encountered? Is there resistance? What groups don’t like what’s happening? Is the corporate world hostile, the supermarkets?**
There may be, but I haven’t encountered any yet. Indeed, I would interpret such a response as being a failure of the process, as it should, from the outset, not be possible to interpret a Transition Initiative as confrontational or threatening. Richard Heinberg has described Transition Initiatives as being “more like a party than a protest march”, and to encounter strong resistance would indicate to me a failure of engagement.
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16 Jan 2008
**Public Meeting: How thinking about the climate crisis needs to change.**
Friday 18 January 2008. Venue: St. John’s Church, Totnes. 7.30pm to 9.30pm
We are delighted to announce that FEASTA, the Irish Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, are dropping in to Totnes this weekend for a climate think tank thing, and as part of that will be holding a public meeting this Friday. It looks like it will be a great event, so do try to get over for it.
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14 Jan 2008
**The Slow Money Revolution** by Cliona O Conaill. New Consumer magazine.
Money is so inextricably woven into the fabric of our lives that it has become fundamental to our survival in the West. It affects almost everything we do, and yet we actually know very little about it. However, understanding of the nature of money will empower us as consumers. Money is not an actual thing. It is only an agreement between businesses, banks, governments, communities and nations to treat something as though it has value. It is “like a marriage, like a political party, like a business deal”, says Bernard Lietaer, author of nine books on money and finances and an economist for over 25 years who was involved in designing the Euro.
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I hadn’t even thought about having a Facebook site, but then recently I started getting lots of emails from people asking to be my friends on Facebook. An interesting concept. I had always avoided things like that before, thinking that anything that might in any way add to the tsunami of email that washes over me every day is best avoided. However, motivated by a curiosity about this new medium, and the ease of setting one up (just list your favourite things and stick a nice picture in), I set one up. Then, after a couple of weeks, I read Tom Hodgkinson’s piece With Friends Like These in the Guardian last week, and after some reflection I have deactivated my Facebook site.
