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Monthly archive for March 2009
Showing results 6 - 10 of 22 for the month of March, 2009.
20 Mar 2009
While I love the film The Age of Stupid, and am completely in agreement with the aims of the campaign that is emerging from it to get a strong and deep agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks, there is something about the ‘Not Stupid’ campaign that sits uncomfortably for me. At Eden, where I was, there was a sign saying ‘Eden Project – Not Stupid’. I’m sure the Eden Project isn’t stupid, but this labelling of things as stupid and not stupid feels deeply alarming to me. Since the film premiere on Sunday, I have heard about two people I know who saw it, who were moved by it, felt touched and affected, yet who are planning trips by plane, one to Hong Kong for Christmas, and one to the US for a spiritual retreat.
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19 Mar 2009
Regular readers will have been following Sophy and Naresh’s ‘Transition Training on Tour’ blog posts (more of which will be here soon). They got back to Totnes a couple of days ago, tired but elated, and to celebrate, here is a film of a talk they gave in New Zealand as part of their travels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npc7oqw-opw
Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
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18 Mar 2009
If you like Transition, but you speak French, the web has been a fairly unrewarding place until now. Now ‘Villes et Communautes en Transition’ has arrived, the portal for the French speaking world into the bright and wonderful world of Transition.
Of course, if you are actually French, the above is not too useful. So according to Babelfish (what an amazing thing!), what I just said, in French, was “Si vous aimez la transition, mais vous parlez français, le Web a été un endroit assez infructueux jusqu’ici. Maintenant ‘ ; En Transition’ de Villes et de Communaudes ; est arrivé, le portail pour le monde de langue française au monde lumineux et brillant de la transition”.
Or something.
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17 Mar 2009
We’ve got three fine pieces of Transition audio for your listening pleasure today. Firstly there is the new Transition podcast, produced by Carl Munson. If you are going to the 2009 Transition Network conference, you’ll meet Carl, as he will be doing a live podcast of the whole event.
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16 Mar 2009
Spent the weekend in Cornwall for the People’s Premiere of The Age of Stupid. The film got into the Guinness Book of Records for being the largest simultaneous premiere in the history of films, being premiered in 65 places (of which Eden was one), connected together by a webcast. At Eden, a sell-out audience drawn from across Cornwall and Devon saw, on the screen, the celebs and others arriving for the greenest film launch in history, with emissions just 1% of the normal Hollywood premiere. Then, we saw the film.
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While I love the film The Age of Stupid, and am completely in agreement with the aims of the campaign that is emerging from it to get a strong and deep agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks, there is something about the ‘Not Stupid’ campaign that sits uncomfortably for me. At Eden, where I was, there was a sign saying ‘Eden Project – Not Stupid’. I’m sure the Eden Project isn’t stupid, but this labelling of things as stupid and not stupid feels deeply alarming to me. Since the film premiere on Sunday, I have heard about two people I know who saw it, who were moved by it, felt touched and affected, yet who are planning trips by plane, one to Hong Kong for Christmas, and one to the US for a spiritual retreat.
