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Monthly archive for January 2007
Showing results 11 - 15 of 23 for the month of January, 2007.
22 Jan 2007
The good folks of Transition Town Lewes have made a great little 5 minute film to promote their initiative and also their Official Unleashing, which takes place on **April 24th** and will include presentations by myself and Dr. Chris Johnstone. The TTL group is currently going for their Awareness Raising stage with great gusto, and hopefully April’s Unleashing will propel them forward with great vigour. This great little promo gives a sense of the momentum gathering down there…
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22 Jan 2007
Whatever the degree of groundswell your Transition Town initiative manages to generate, however many practical projects you manage to get going on the ground and however wonderful your Energy Descent Plan is, you will not progress too far unless you have cultivated a positive and productive relationship with your local authority. Whether it is planning issues, funding issues or whatever, you need them on board. You may well find, in many places now, that you are pushing against an open door.
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20 Jan 2007
With next weekend’s Soil Association conference, **One Planet Agriculture** becoming the first ever Soil Association conference to be sold out in advance, it would appear that its theme of peak oil and the relocalisation of food production has hit a chord. Speakers include Richard Heinberg, Colin Campbell, Jeremy Leggett, Jonathan Porritt and **Transition Culture’s** own Rob Hopkins. The Soil Association just posted a podcast and interview in which Soil Association director **Patrick Holden** waxes lyrical about the impact that peak oil and the Transition Towns concept has had on his, and the Association’s, thinking. I will report in detail on the conference, and try and write up most of the keynote speakers. Here is the text of Patrick’s interview….
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19 Jan 2007
Last Wednesday the writer and physicist **Peter Russell** gave a talk at St. John’s Church in Totnes as part of the TTT programme called **’Time to Wake Up!’** It was attended by about 270 people and was a great evening. I didn’t take any notes or anything useful or intelligent like that, but what I wanted to share with you was the poem that he recited at the end of the talk. The following day I did an interview with him which I will post here once I have transcribed it, but for now I just want to share the poem with you.
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18 Jan 2007
In my experience, peak oil is a better motivating issue than climate change, because it holds a mirror up to an individual community/individual/society and asks *where is the resilience? Where is its ability to withstand shocks?* Beyond the realisation that very little resilience actually remains, comes the realisation that very few people still have the skills a more resilient society needs. This is where your Transition Town initiative comes in.
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The good folks of Transition Town Lewes have made a great little 5 minute film to promote their initiative and also their Official Unleashing, which takes place on **April 24th** and will include presentations by myself and Dr. Chris Johnstone. The TTL group is currently going for their Awareness Raising stage with great gusto, and hopefully April’s Unleashing will propel them forward with great vigour. This great little promo gives a sense of the momentum gathering down there…
