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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
12 Jul 2007
I’m sure I am not alone in having a pile of books by the bed that I am somehow all reading at once, dipping in and out of them, and occasionally reading something all the way through. Although not really the most satisfying way of reading books, it is, at the moment, just the way it is, but it does have the advantage of meaning that I am getting the flavour of a few different books, and thought I might take this opportunity to tell you about the 5 best ones that I wake up to in the morning. Most of them are recently published, and given that, with everything else going on at the moment, I seem to have little time for writing book reviews, you can consider these as very brief reviews.
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11 Jul 2007
This weekend I was married, and very lovely it was too. After the wettest June on record, the clouds parted over the 3 days of the wedding and ensuing celebrations, and then closed again this morning. It was altogether extremely magical; friends, music, sunshine, football and dancing, accompanied by local food and wine, and a stunning cake. We held it in a youth hostel near Totnes, which we got to by all going up the river on a boat (part of our efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the whole thing), which made for a magical beginning, heading up the River Dart in the sunshine. Thanks so much to everyone who came and to everyone who sent kind words and blessings. Married life is very pleasant so far! I thought you might like to hear the last bit of the speech I did as the groom…
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11 Jul 2007
BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a play on Friday evening all about peak oil, called **Second to Midnight**. The use of drama and storytelling to explore issues around peak oil and climate change is one that regular readers of Transition Culture will know is of great interest to me, and has taken form in the Transition Tales initiative, an element of Transition Town Totnes. I will be interesting to hear how the BBC handles this story. It looks from the blurb (see below) that it will be a bit like the film Syriana, but set in Africa, but do tune in, we can share our thoughts on it afterwards. You’ll be able to listen to it on the BBC website.
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4 Jul 2007
You may be interested to listen to an interview I did with Global Public Media last week, as part of a piece about Energy Descent Plans. I’m not sure quite how coherent it was, as it was done at 4pm US time which was, unfortunately, 7am here, and I had just woken up, hence my somewhat huskier-than-usual voice. It is worth a listen, aside from hearing what I sound like at 7am, to hear the first question Andi from GPM asked me, and imagine yourself being asked that question when you’ve just woken up! Anyway, hopefully it is an interesting piece, and Global Public Media is a wonderful resource. I won’t be posting anything here for a few days, as I have the extraordinary good fortune to be marrying, this weekend, my love of the past 17 years. One should never rush into marriage I always think, and should get to know the other person first! Please pray for sunshine. Back next week.
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2 Jul 2007
Two years ago, I’m sure I didn’t know what a blogger was. Certainly someone introducing themselves as such would have been a bit of a cause for alarm… Setting up this site and learning the ropes was a steep learning curve, and I guess that now, having been voted Britain’s 12th Best Green Blog I can claim to have got the hang of it to some extent.
I have been following with interest the blogging progress of my friend Graham Strouts who now publishes Zone5.org, it can be said that he is really finding his blogging feet now, having started posting some really good stuff, and having mastered the art of regular posting.
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I’m sure I am not alone in having a pile of books by the bed that I am somehow all reading at once, dipping in and out of them, and occasionally reading something all the way through. Although not really the most satisfying way of reading books, it is, at the moment, just the way it is, but it does have the advantage of meaning that I am getting the flavour of a few different books, and thought I might take this opportunity to tell you about the 5 best ones that I wake up to in the morning. Most of them are recently published, and given that, with everything else going on at the moment, I seem to have little time for writing book reviews, you can consider these as very brief reviews.
