29 Nov 2008
Some photos from the Transition Cities conference…
Coming soon… a write up of Day 2 of the Cities Conference, a film about it, writeups of all the sessions… but for now, here are some images from the 2 days in Nottingham.
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Monthly archive for November 2008
Showing results 1 - 5 of 24 for the month of November, 2008.
27 Nov 2008
Transition Cities Conference, Nottingham Arena: Day 1
The first day of the Transition Cities Conference in Nottingham was a fascinating coming together of nearly 150 people from across the UK (as well as Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Gent in Belgium), all hosted in the Nottingham Arena, supported by Nottingham City Council. A few of us drove up from Totnes, leaving at 5am, and delays caused by an accident involving a huge Tic Tac lorry, meant we arrived with 10 minutes to spare before the start at 10am.
26 Nov 2008
The Transitioning of Second Life: by Katy Duke
I have never actually looked at Second Life myself, but this article by Katy Duke is a fascinating look at how some people are using it to communicate Transition ideas.
Blogs… I’m hooked! (especially this one), what a phenomenally immediate way to communicate and learn… though reading them soaks up time. Well this summer I had some extra time for research, laid up with a bad back, so I tried to compile the five most succinct video messages about peak oil & climate change I could find online. Having spent some considerable time talking to complete head-in-the-sand sceptics (on a car forum), I was feeling the need for clarity & succour! What transpired was a rather novel and slightly bizarre method of communicating the message ….. here’s how it happened….
26 Nov 2008
Ed Milliband Bigs Up Transition, But Growth Is Still King
Ed Milliband, the newly appointed Minister for Energy and Climate Change, gave a talk on Monday to the Environment Agency conference in London. As part of it, he said;
How do we build a popular movement on these issues? Movements come from individual experiences which raise consciousness of the issues and are translated into bigger demands. So local campaigns and action whether it’s the Transition Town movement or pioneering local authorities – are absolutely essential. Not just because they are important in themselves but because they can help create a movement for change.
We blushed, just as much as Sharon Astyk did recently, to be cited in such august company. Great to hear that the work of Transition groups up and down the country is on the radar. It doesn’t however mean that we can let his statement that “we need to show it’s possible to be for growth, for fairness and for tackling climate change” to go unchallenged. Our continued obsession with economic growth is potentially utterly ruinous, but I think that’s for another post on economic growth that I have gestating and should be with you soon….
25 Nov 2008
Oh For Heaven’s Sake. Can We Get a Move On With Those New Cultural Stories Please?
As I mentioned yesterday, I was in London over the weekend, and my post Sigur Ros wanderings around that great city were fascinating and occasionally bewildering. The recent to-and-fro with John Michael Greer and the editing work I am doing on the impending Transition Timeline report have really got me thinking about stories, the cultural stories we tell ourselves at this time of monumental change and how woefully inadequate most of them are.
