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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.
We had a fantastic day on Saturday with the first Transition Tales and Wondermentalist creative day, held here in Totnes. Wondermentalist is a local poets/performers collective, who do monthly cabarets in Totnes, which are quite wonderful. Matt Harvey, one of its founders, can be seen today, on BBC South West at 7.30pm, doing a piece about Transition for a programme called ‘Inside Out’. For those of you outside the South West (or within the South West but with no telly, or who are in the South West and do have a telly but who have an important appointment at 7.30), it will be available on the i-Player. I’ll let you know, and we’ll try and get it onto YouTube as soon as we can. Anyway, back to the workshop, which was fantastic…
CNN has invited Transition Culture and some other bloggers to submit questions to be asked to business leaders at the DAVOS summit in Switzerland. They write “as part of this year’s “Dear Davos” coverage, CNN is inviting a selection of influential bloggers to submit their questions to be put to our guests during our daily coverage”. So, I am throwing this over to you lot, and will pick the one I like best. I know how you like deadlines… your questions need to be in to me by 2pm THIS Friday. No pressure. Please post them as comments at the bottom of this piece.
Every Christmas one of my children gets a copy of the Guiness Book of Records, which offers a fascinating insight into the more demented and extreme aspects of 21st century life. Today of course is the day when Barack Obama is inaugurated as President Obama, the something-or-other-th President of the USA. I think the question the world should be asking though, on this historic day, is how would President Obama deal with a 7 tonne rotten whale?
Here’s a fascinating clip. As Transition continues to spread across the US, interesting little pieces like this are popping up on US television. I love at the end how the presenter gives the date and time for the next Transition meeting in the town. Now if only we could get that kind of exposure everywhere!
Placing a gigantic one-way bet against the planet Cuba is an object lesson in a different way to tackle shortages and slumps while remaining independent, writes John Gibbons. From today’s Irish Times.
THOMAS LICCARDI could have been New York’s answer to Eddie Hobbs. An accountant by trade, and cautious to a fault, some years back he noticed one of his clients was earning 25 per cent on investments. “It sounded much too good to be true,” said Liccardi.
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