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.
We’re back, following some down time due to a collapsed server! People find a variety of ways to spend their birthdays. Now that you all know that I ended up spending the evening of my recent birthday enduring ‘Sex and the City’ at the cinema, I can now attempt to redeem myself slightly by pointing you to the time I also spent that day with Nancy Durham from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, helping in the making of a short piece for Canadian TV. You can see Nancy’s article and 5 minute film here (follow the link top right corner for the film clip). I think it turned out rather well, and hope that I have, partially at least, attoned for my sins…
The Transition Ambridge (or “Tran – sish – ee – oh – ney Ambridge”, as character Joe Grundy called it the other day) storyline in the Archers continues, with people setting up the “Ambridge Swap Club” and starting to form their working groups. In the story, the village has its website, maintained by Jennifer Aldridge. This is mirrored on the BBC’s website, which now has a section about Transition Ambridge which is spookily like something you might actually find out there in Transition-land. Bit disappointing that all Pat Archer, who founded the whole thing in the first place and who runs a diverse organic farm and local cheese and yoghurt production, is offering is asparagus, which by this time of year is going to somewhat stringy, but it is fascinating seeing where this storyline is going…
I have mentioned Transition Tales here previously, it is the work that Transition Town Totnes has been doing in our local secondary school, working with Year 7 students raising awareness about energy issues and doing visioning work about how a post-oil world might be. Over the last couple of months the Transition Tales team has done the Transition Tales work with all of Year 7, and in the following article, project co-ordinator Hannah Mulder gives an overview of the project.
This first film is about Waiheke Island’s Fabulous Fruit Tree Initiative, which is aiming to plant 20,000 fruit and nut trees on the island. Looks like they are off to a pretty good start…
Those lovely guys at MovingSounds have just posted the film they made about the 2008 Transition conference. Despite its somewhat unhealthy obsession with Peter Lipman’s legs, it captures some of the sense of energy, purpose and fun that people experienced that weekend. Have a look.
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
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We’re back, following some down time due to a collapsed server! People find a variety of ways to spend their birthdays. Now that you all know that I ended up spending the evening of my recent birthday enduring ‘Sex and the City’ at the cinema, I can now attempt to redeem myself slightly by pointing you to the time I also spent that day with Nancy Durham from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, helping in the making of a short piece for Canadian TV. You can see Nancy’s article and 5 minute film here (follow the link top right corner for the film clip). I think it turned out rather well, and hope that I have, partially at least, attoned for my sins…
I have mentioned Transition Tales here 
