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Monthly archive for April 2006
Showing results 1 - 5 of 19 for the month of April, 2006.
28 Apr 2006
**Transition Culture** is delighted to be able to present the UK premiere of The Community Solution’s new film ‘The Power of Community’, at Totnes Methodist Hall on **Thursday May 25th at 8pm**. The explores the impacts of peak oil on Cuba and how the country adapted and adjusted to it. It is the perfect antidote to the End of Suburbia, drawing out the lessons from this amazing societal transition which we in the West will have to start to learn very soon. It is a wonderful and inspirational film and is one not to be missed.
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28 Apr 2006
Things are moving ahead in Kinsale, some wonderful initiatives popping up. Louise of Transition Design has organised a seminar by Brian Wellar from Willits in California called **”How to move towards an Economically Localised Community”**. The event will take place on Saturday, 6th May 2006 at the Temperance Hall in Kinsale from 8:45am for 9am start, through to 5pm. It will be a wonderful opportunity to learn about the amazing work being done in Willits, one of the most advanced localisation projects in the world, and how their experience can help to deepen the work underway in Kinsale.
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28 Apr 2006
Thirty people gathered at Dublin’s Cultivate Centre on April 20th for a World Cafe facilitated event called ‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’. The day was part of the Convergence Festival “Learning to Live with Less Fossil Fuels”, and was billed as “a community energy descent planning conference”, the first such event ever. The day was ably facilitated by Tara and Micheal from Second Nature, and was very productive, raising many ideas and insights which I will touch on in forthcoming posts.
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27 Apr 2006
Fuelling the Future was a 2 day conference that I intiated and, with a wonderful team of co-organisers and a larger team of lovely volunteers, made a reality in Kinsale last summer. I still meet people who talk about the event as one of the most uplifting they had ever been to. For me it was a kind of parting gift to Kinsale, as I was about to move to the UK, and it was also an opportunity to invite some of my heroes to what my idea of a peak oil conference was (inspired, albeit at a distance, by the Community Solution conference in Oregon).
It all came about when I heard that David Holmgren was to be in Europe that summer, and then later that Richard Heinberg was in Dublin around the same time.
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26 Apr 2006
**Review of CPULs – Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes. Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. Andre Viljoen (ed) 2005. Architectural Press.**
Great book, terrible title. Andre Viljoen has put together a book of the most profound importance at this point in history. How will we feed our cities beyond the age of cheap oil? Does the old concept that the cities are for people to live in and the countryside is for growing food in still have any relevance when our cheap transport system is no longer able to function? Viljon argues not. We should view our cities as much in terms of being productive spaces as we view our rural areas.
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**Transition Culture** is delighted to be able to present the UK premiere of The Community Solution’s new film ‘The Power of Community’, at Totnes Methodist Hall on **Thursday May 25th at 8pm**. The explores the impacts of peak oil on Cuba and how the country adapted and adjusted to it. It is the perfect antidote to the End of Suburbia, drawing out the lessons from this amazing societal transition which we in the West will have to start to learn very soon. It is a wonderful and inspirational film and is one not to be missed.
