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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.
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15 Oct 2008
Well it has been a long process, starting in Bristol in April, passing through many hands, being critiqued and pulled around, rewritten several times and now finally wrapped up at a meeting in Bristol a few weeks ago. It feels like it has been a major piece of thinking, drawing in many new and diverse ideas, and it has been a fascinating process to be part of. Now, here in its raw form (it will be properly designed and made available both as printed piece and pdf), we present it to you. You can download it here, or read it below. We hope you find it a useful document and that you take it to your hearts…
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14 Oct 2008
I had the great pleasure over the weekend of attending the 2008 Schumacher Lectures in Bristol. I will write more about it tomorrow, but one of the highlights for me was a talk by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature (one of the most distressing books I ever read) and Deep Economy (one of the most exhilarating).
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10 Oct 2008
US national debt clock runs out of digits. From NDTVProfit.
Thursday, October 09, 2008. Thanks to Tom Barnett for sending me this…
Such is the surge in America’s debt that even technology is finding it difficult to measure its level as a clock earmarked for keeping a tab on country’s national debt has run out of digits! The operator of the National Debt Clock, installed at Times Square in New York, has now dropped the dollar sign in the total figure to accommodate a ten trillion dollar figure. A replacement for the clock with two additional digits that would be able to account for up to quadrillion dollars of debt is expected only by the next year. The existing clock can accommodate up to 9,999,999,999,999 dollars (just one dollar short of $ 10-trillion) of debt with a dollar sign ($) preceding it, but the clock has started showing the figure without the dollar sign after the debt level recently reached the 10-trillion dollar level.
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10 Oct 2008
Two participants on the first day discussing Rudy's 'peak everything' presentation.
So yesterday I posted Joanne’s reflections on the early stirrings of Transition in LA. Today I want to share with you an email from Rudy Dhont in Flanders, on the beginnings of Transition work there….
The early inspiration
“I was a course participant at Schumacher College on several occasions the last two years and I got very inspired by Transition Town Totnes.
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9 Oct 2008
Here is an email I received from Joanne Poyourow in LA about the early steps that are being taken to kick start Transition ideas in the city. Hope this is interesting/encouraging for other Transition city groups. Just to remind you, the Transition Cities Conference takes place in Nottingham on the 27th – 28th November. Full details to follow next week, but do put those dates in your diary.
“Sometimes the question of “what to do about Los Angeles” seems just too big — both to those on the outside looking in, and even at times to the brave Permaculturists and Transitioners who are here working from the inside. Los Angeles is huge.
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Well it has been a long process, starting in Bristol in April, passing through many hands, being critiqued and pulled around, rewritten several times and now finally wrapped up at a meeting in Bristol a few weeks ago. It feels like it has been a major piece of thinking, drawing in many new and diverse ideas, and it has been a fascinating process to be part of. Now, here in its raw form (it will be properly designed and made available both as printed piece and pdf), we present it to you. You can download it here, or read it below. We hope you find it a useful document and that you take it to your hearts…
