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
29 Aug 2007
Just back from a few glorious days on the Scilly Isles, somewhere I have never been before, but will certainly go back to. What a beautiful place. For those who don’t know, they are a small collection of islands off the south west coast of Cornwall, about 45km west of Land’s End. They were formed as part of a collision between continental plates 200 to 300 million years ago, which forced up granite intrusions, which over time have eroded, leaving the landscapes which run from Dartmoor, down through Cornwall and then out under the sea, rising to put in a last appearance at the Scillies. As well as being a stunningly clean and beautiful place, being there also focused my mind on sea level rise, as the rising and falling of the sea has been central to the evolution of culture and ecology there over time.
Read more»
18 Aug 2007
Before I disappear for a week, I thought I would leave you with three of the best articles I have recently read, that might keep you informed and entertained next week. They offer the best updates of the peak oil case I have recently read. One is a piece by Michael Klare, called Entering the Tough Oil Era: The New Energy Pessimism, which sets peak oil in the context of global geopolitics, and the second is Richard Heinberg’s latest Museletter, entitled The View from Oil’s Peak, which updates and sets out the peak oil case compellingly and succinctly. The third is by Gail E. Tverberg, and is the first chapter (you can also read Chapters 2 and 3 of a book she is writing on the subject, which offers a clear and succinct summary of the peak oil argument.
Read more»
17 Aug 2007
I am delighted to announce the winners of the Transition Culture/Greenfibres Peak Oil Tshirt competition are **Eliza Popperwell** , and **Josef Davies-Coates**. The correct answer was of course “Peak Everything” (perhaps disappointingly). Well done folks, and thanks to everyone who entered. If you didn’t win, but would like one of the tshirts, they are available by mail order from Greenfibres. I am off now for a week, back with you early the following week. Take care.
Read more»
17 Aug 2007
‘The End of Suburbia’ changed my life. Before I saw it, I knew little or nothing about peak oil, since having seen it, like so many people, my life has never been the same. The film delivered it straight, addressing peak oil and our collective oil dependency like nothing prior to it had. It was informative, funny and chilling. It has been an extraordinary phenomenon, shown in community screenings around the world, and has arguably done more to promote the peak oil concept than any book yet produced on the subject. The sequel, ‘Escape from Suburbia’, has been keenly anticipated for some time now, and so it was with this sense of anticipation that I sat down to watch the DVD of the film last week. I have to say, I found it to be somewhat unsatisfying sequel, with mixed messages about responses to the peak oil crisis.
Read more»
16 Aug 2007
Transition Town Totnes‘s Autumn calendar of events until Christmas is launched today. Building on the previous year’s highly successful work and programme of talks, events, Open Space days and workshops, the new programme looks like the best yet. Highlights include a talk by David Strahan, an evening called ‘Economics in Transition’, with Richard Douthwaite, Bernard Lietaer and David Boyle, Open Space days on transport, education and one for young people, a performance of the travelling show ‘This Farming Life’ which presents traditional song and archive film of farming on and around Dartmoor since 1920, and it all starts with TTT’s first birthday party, celebrating one year since the Unleashing. You can download the inside of the new flyer here and the outside here. The programme in full appears below, and printed copies will be available by September 1st.
Read more»
Just back from a few glorious days on the Scilly Isles, somewhere I have never been before, but will certainly go back to. What a beautiful place. For those who don’t know, they are a small collection of islands off the south west coast of Cornwall, about 45km west of Land’s End. They were formed as part of a collision between continental plates 200 to 300 million years ago, which forced up granite intrusions, which over time have eroded, leaving the landscapes which run from Dartmoor, down through Cornwall and then out under the sea, rising to put in a last appearance at the Scillies. As well as being a stunningly clean and beautiful place, being there also focused my mind on sea level rise, as the rising and falling of the sea has been central to the evolution of culture and ecology there over time.
