23 Jul 2008
Last Saturday we had Starhawk in Totnes giving a talk as part of Transition Town Totnes‘ programme of talks. Her talk was excellent, very inspiring (and she kept it all together even when one woman in the audience collapsed and had to be taken off in an ambulance), and at the end she did a guided visualisation thing which I thought was a very useful tool for helping people to start visualising a powered-down future. You might like to try it out with your Transition group if it feels useful… I can see places where it might come in useful, although I often avoid the term ‘visualisation’ as it can press some peoples’ woo-woo buttons… I tend to call it ‘an imagination exercise’, or somesuch…. anyway, it went something like this….
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23 Jul 2008
The day after Starhawk’s talk in Totnes, she visited my house so that we could do a short interview. It was a gloriously sunny day, and after we had concluded the interview, I gave her a tour of my garden (well, my raised beds at least). The interview ranged across Transition work, managing grief, activism, permaculture and much more…
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22 Jul 2008
Over the last couple of months, as an outcome of the Transition Strategy Day in Bristol in April, Peter Lipman and myself have been putting together a document which explores how the Transition Network, both as the formal organisation and as the wider movement, might structure itself, entitled The Transition Network: a Proposal for Structure. The resultant document is now ready for wider consultation, and we are very keen to hear your feedback. We think it is a historic document of great importance to the future of where this whole Transition thing goes… You can download the pdf. of the document here, and you are invited to post any feedback, comments, suggestions or additions here (rather than email them to us), or leave them as comments below. Thank you!
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22 Jul 2008
In March, at the Findhorn Positive Energy conference, I was asked, when I arrived, to screw up the talk I had prepared and come up with something that reflected the rest of the conference. Here is the talk I ended up giving, complete with exuberant introduction. It was a talk I really enjoyed…
Part Two ¦ Part Three ¦ Part Four ¦ Part Five ¦ Part Six
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21 Jul 2008
I had the privilege last week to attend a kind of think tank thing organised by Colin Hines, which preceded the release today of the Green New Deal Group’s report, which I think is something that all of you involved in Transition work will find extremely useful. The Group has been meeting since early 2007, consisting of Larry Elliot, Colin Hines, Tony Juniper, Jeremy Leggett, Caroline Lucas MEP, Richard Murphy, Ann Pettifor, Charles Secrett and Andrew Simms. The opening paragraph of the report runs as follows;
“The global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’. It is a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and soaring energy prices underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production. These three overlapping events threaten to develop into a perfect storm, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Depression. To help prevent this from happening we are proposing a Green New Deal”.
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Last Saturday we had Starhawk in Totnes giving a talk as part of Transition Town Totnes‘ programme of talks. Her talk was excellent, very inspiring (and she kept it all together even when one woman in the audience collapsed and had to be taken off in an ambulance), and at the end she did a guided visualisation thing which I thought was a very useful tool for helping people to start visualising a powered-down future. You might like to try it out with your Transition group if it feels useful… I can see places where it might come in useful, although I often avoid the term ‘visualisation’ as it can press some peoples’ woo-woo buttons… I tend to call it ‘an imagination exercise’, or somesuch…. anyway, it went something like this….
