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Showing results 6 - 10 of 24 for the month of January, 2009.
Matt Harvey’s great piece about Transition was screened last night on BBC South West’s ‘Inside Out’ programme, and it was very entertaining. The direct link to it is here, which will save you the 20 minutes it took me to track it down on the main site! Well done Matt, and also to Andrew who filmed it and edited it. The piece starts about 10 minutes and 15 seconds into the programme.
The discussions that followed the publication here of the Transition Declaration of Independence, the story emerged of the list of 200 skills needed in Victorian times that appeared in the last 2 pages of appendices from “Victorian Oamaru : A vision For The Future” by Michael O’Brien, which was printed by hand and not available electronically. Thanks to Corinne for typing this up and to Ted for finding it. I’ve got my name down for pie-maker. Insurance salesmen take note. It is interesting to read this in the context of Richard Morrison’s comment in his column in today’s Times: “I think we may be on the cusp of the most surprising social change in our lifetimes: a rediscovery of the pleasures to be had in thrift, in simplicity and in parochialism…I wouldn’t wish the return of Spam on anyone. But the rest? A New Age of Austerity might be quite refreshing.”
We had a fantastic day on Saturday with the first Transition Tales and Wondermentalist creative day, held here in Totnes. Wondermentalist is a local poets/performers collective, who do monthly cabarets in Totnes, which are quite wonderful. Matt Harvey, one of its founders, can be seen today, on BBC South West at 7.30pm, doing a piece about Transition for a programme called ‘Inside Out’. For those of you outside the South West (or within the South West but with no telly, or who are in the South West and do have a telly but who have an important appointment at 7.30), it will be available on the i-Player. I’ll let you know, and we’ll try and get it onto YouTube as soon as we can. Anyway, back to the workshop, which was fantastic…
CNN has invited Transition Culture and some other bloggers to submit questions to be asked to business leaders at the DAVOS summit in Switzerland. They write “as part of this year’s “Dear Davos” coverage, CNN is inviting a selection of influential bloggers to submit their questions to be put to our guests during our daily coverage”. So, I am throwing this over to you lot, and will pick the one I like best. I know how you like deadlines… your questions need to be in to me by 2pm THIS Friday. No pressure. Please post them as comments at the bottom of this piece.
Every Christmas one of my children gets a copy of the Guiness Book of Records, which offers a fascinating insight into the more demented and extreme aspects of 21st century life. Today of course is the day when Barack Obama is inaugurated as President Obama, the something-or-other-th President of the USA. I think the question the world should be asking though, on this historic day, is how would President Obama deal with a 7 tonne rotten whale?
