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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.
At 3am GMT and at 7 PM Oacifi Standard Time, today (Friday), the Sandpoint Transition Initiative have their Great Unleashing, which will be broadcast live online (see the box below). This is technologically impressive stuff (at least it is for a Luddite like me). I’ll be tucked up in bed, but hopefully we’ll be able to see it later too. Wishing STI all the very best with their Unleashing, I’m sure it’ll be a wondeful evening.
Discussion: Comments Off on The Official Unleashing of Sandpoint Transition Initiative, Live Online (especially of interest to US Transitioners and UK-based insomniacs)
The latest Transition podcast is now up and ready for listening to over at Traydio. It features clips from various Transition recordings that have been posted on Traydio in recent weeks. It makes a great audio introduction to the Transition movement, visiting Lewes, Brixton, Kinsale and Totnes. Traydio are doing a great service to the Transition movement by doing these monthly podcasts. If you have any good Transition-related audio, do sent it to Carl Munson at Traydio, you never know, it might end up in one of these podcasts.
‘Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis’, prepared by the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre and the Post carbon Institute. 2008. 41 pages. Free download here.
The whole question of how to communicate peak oil to local government, and how to support and encourage their creative and rapid responses to it, is huge and very timely. ‘Preparing for Peak Oil’ is an excellent guidebook for anyone who wants to bring their local authority up to speed on energy depletion and climate change issues. It is clear, well presented, and achieves an excellent balance between presenting the hard facts about peak oil alongside some positive and inspiring examples of change, as well as some clear and well thought through thinking tools.
(A message from Peter North at Liverpool University)… Green Books in the UK will be publishing a guide to alternative currencies as part of their “Transition Guides” series called: “Money: how to unleash a money revolution where you live”. I am writing it, and it will be published in September next year. It won’t be an inaccessible academic tome, but an affordable accessible ‘how to’ guide. I have to deliver the manuscript in February.
If you are not coming to Nottingham for the Transition Cities conference, you would do very well to attend this wonderful event in London, a crash course in the latest science of climate change. The event is the precursor to the launch of a report called ‘Climate Safety’, modelled on the ‘Climate Code Red’ report. Essential stuff. Full details below…
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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At 3am GMT and at 7 PM Oacifi Standard Time, today (Friday), the Sandpoint Transition Initiative have their Great Unleashing, which will be broadcast live online (see the box below). This is technologically impressive stuff (at least it is for a Luddite like me). I’ll be tucked up in bed, but hopefully we’ll be able to see it later too. Wishing STI all the very best with their Unleashing, I’m sure it’ll be a wondeful evening.
