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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.
Come find me at robhopkins.net
20 Sep 2010
Totnes Civic Hall, now graced with 75 photovoltaic panels...
On Saturday Transition Town Totnes held one of those events that feels really celebratory and somehow like it marks a significant step forward in the whole Transition process (well, in Totnes anyway…). The Transition Streets Energy Fair was designed to celebrate the new photovoltaic installation on the Civic Hall, to inspire a new round of recruitment for Transition Streets, to provide the public with access to a range of renewable energy installers and information, and to raise the whole profile of renewables and energy conservation. It did all of these, and more, in a very well-attended day with a great buzz.
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17 Sep 2010
Over the coming few months I will be sharing with you the ongoing work in developing the patterns-based model of Transition that will form the centrepiece of the second version of the Transition Handbook, starting on Monday. I have explained how that approach will work before, and it was also set out in the booklet produced for the 2010 Transition Network conference. To do this, we are trying out a different approach, not a wiki, but a rather exciting way of gathering your input. These patterns need to be alive and rich with your hard-won experience, your failures as well as your successes. Here’s how it will work:
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17 Sep 2010
(Here is a message recieved from Gerd Wessling in Germany…) In partnership and parallel to the upcoming Transition conference in Scotland (more info to follow), the German Transition Network is very happy to announce the first ever Transition-conference in Hannover/Germany from November 19th – 21st! It will be primarily a German-speaking conference; with some English-speaking elements too (e.g. when linking up to Scotland). We will also work on the theme of broadening; but even more so see this conference as a wonderful way of all Transitioners (and those who want to become such!) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux etc. to connect, work together in defining what Transition is and will be in the German-speaking countries/culture & have a lot of fun together! More information can be found here, or contact konferenz (at) transition-initiativen.de.
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15 Sep 2010
My section of Post Carbon Institute’s ‘Post Carbon Reader: managing the 21st century’s sustainability crises’, due out in October, has just been published online. You can download the pdf of my part here, and can see all the previous pdfs that have been published so far here. For a sense of the final book, you can see the contents page here. It’s going to be a great book. Here is an short extract of my piece:
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15 Sep 2010
I spent yesterday at the Development Trust Association (DTA) conference at the Derby Assembly Rooms. A fascinating day, including an interesting look at Development Trusts globally, participating in a workshop about Low Carbon Communities, and meeting some fascinating people, as one always does at such events. The highlight for me though, and something of interest given recent discussions here at Transition Culture, was a debate about the coalition government’s ‘Big Society’ agenda (see the end of this piece for an event Transition Network is running soon to explore its implications).
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