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An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent

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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.


3 Nov 2008

A Blast from the Past No.1: Permaculture in Kinsale in 2005

I was clearing out a cupboard the other day and found a dusty pile of old VHS video cassettes.  On closer inspection, it turns out that among various odd bits and bobs, were two old programmes I thought you might find interesting.  Thanks to Alex Munslow for uploading them onto YouTube for me.  Today’s film appeared on Ireland’s RTE television in July 2005, and was filmed the day before the Fuelling the Future conference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzVmIuEWw-A

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Categories: General


31 Oct 2008

Latest Transition Town Totnes Bulletin Goes Online

Thought that on this beautiful sunny Autumn morning (feels like the morning after the Great Flood, given the extraordinary rainfall we had yesterday) you might like to have a snapshot of what TTT is up to, courtesy of our latest Bulletin which was published yesterday.  Click here to read it.

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Categories: Transition Initiatives


30 Oct 2008

Bewildered by Art. And a Competition.

Yesterday I showed you the film produced from the talk I gave via video conference to Tallinn in Estonia as part of the ‘Life After Capitalism’ series.  Part of the series featured a web-forum, where people were invited to post ‘reflections’ on what they had seen or experienced during the series of talks.  Here is a short film made by Marit Sirgmets inspired by my talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J740HJBFAs

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Categories: General


30 Oct 2008

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Visits the Totnes Garden Share Scheme

A few weeks ago, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall came to Totnes to film about the town’s Garden Share scheme as part of his new series, River Cottage Autumn. The episode featuring Garden Share goes out tonight on Channel 4 at 8pm, and is called ‘Vegging Out’.

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Categories: General


29 Oct 2008

The Power of Videoconferencing, and an Unusual Transition Film from Estonia

Here's what I saw at my end...

Here is what the event looked like to me, sat in the video conference room in Dartington.

As regular readers will know, I gave up flying a couple of years ago, and so when invited to speak at events outside the UK, I am drawn to the potential of the communications technology we now have at our disposal to obviate our need to travel at all. When I was asked to be part of the ‘Life After Capitalism’ series of lectures at the Von Krahl Theatre in Tallinn in Estonia, which brought together activists and artists, I discovered the most wonderful technology, video conferencing, thanks to the facilities at nearby Dartington.

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Categories: General