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.
Come find me at robhopkins.net
You’ll find out over the next few days about what I was reading during my holiday, but it was fascinating to read about what the UK’s MP’s have been reading on theirs…. the following comes courtesy of the BBC website… Number 10 (which was actually joint 5th..) comes as a bit of a surprise….
Transition Culture has made the Top 20 in the Daily (Maybe)’s Best Green Blogs 2008, albeit slipping back from last year‘s heady 4th place to a probably far more realistic 19th place. Thanks to Jim Jay for the inclusion, and for putting this together every year. It is great to have some kind of acknowledgement of the hard work done by some of the wonderful bloggers out there in greenblogland. We did slightly better in Iain Dale’s Top 20 Green Blogs, coming 12th. Thanks to everyone who voted for us there. You can also vote for the Daily (Maybe)’s People’s Choice Award (entries close by September 1st, so you haven’t got long)… if you felt like clicking here and giving your vote to Transition Culture we’d be very grateful. Thanks!
I am signing off now for 3 weeks. It is time to focus on family and on relaxation rather than email and dashing hither and thither. In the spirit of taking time to celebrate what is beautiful and important, I will leave you with this video, by Icelandic band Sigur Ros (who I can’t get enough of at the moment).
It is utterly bewitching and makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up (especially the end). If it doesn’t make you cry, you probably need a break too…. Transition Culture will be back with you around August 22nd. Until then, be good, and may your carrots grow straight and true.
Run of the Mill magazine is produced by the Ruskin Mill Educational Trust at Nailsworth, the beautiful venue that hosted the first Transition convergence in 2007. Their latest edition includes an interview with Mike Jones of Transition Stroud, which gives a rich overview of how Transition Stroud began and what it has been up to. Many thanks to the editor for permission to reproduce the article here.
Most of us live in houses built before there was any awareness of energy efficiency, and consequently most of us live in houses that are insufficiently insulated, excessively draughty, poorly oriented and costly to heat. While we may dream of strawbale passive houses, the reality is that most of us will spend the rest of our lives in these houses. As we plunge headlong into a world of soaring energy prices (the average family expected to spend £1000 on gas by the end of the year) we can no longer afford to, in effect, heat the skies above our homes. So what to do? On Saturday 5th July, TTT held an event that visited 3 very different houses in Totnes to look at the challenges particular to them.
