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Showing results 16 - 20 of 20 for the month of April, 2009.
You will no doubt have seen in the news the dreadful scenes from the earthquake in northern Italy, which killed over 150 people, and has left nearly 50,000 homeless. I recieved the following email from Ellen Bermann at Transition Italia which I said I would post here.
Participants at the Transition Cities conference in Nottingham last year
270 places at the 2009 Transition Network conference are already spoken for, so if you are planning to come, do get your booking in soon. In order to make the trip to London as worthwhile as possible, and in order to make it as rich a learning opportunity as we can, Transition Network will be running a number of trainings before and after the conference which are open to conference attendees, other transitioners and non-transitioners alike. To book please follow the links below. A number of concessions are available for each course. For these please contact Kristin at 0117 963 8323 or email conference@transitionnetwork.org.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, while millions of column inches are being written about the G20 talks and the decisions taken there, basically to try and kickstart the global economy with exactly the same thinking that has brought it crashing around our ears in the first place, here is a picture taken by Carl Munson in Exeter that somehow captures the whole thing more succinctly than the acres of newsprint…
Saturday night was Earth Day, when, as a sign to the world leaders heading to Copenhagen, people around the world were invited to turn their lights off for an hour so as to make a detectable difference to energy consumption. Lights at the Sydney Opera House, the London Eye and the London Gherkin were all turned off, as well as in millions of homes around the world. Not one to be left out, at 8.30pm we duly got out the candles and switched off the lights for an hour.
So Shaun, you’ve just got copies of the first book you’ve ever published in your hand. What does that feel like?
Wow, what a question! Relief I think! It’s been a long process, and it feels so good to finally see the fruits of everyone’s labours that have gone into this book, and to feel that it can now go out and be a help to people. And I can’t get over how much I love the cover design – we spent ages getting it right, and I’m totally in love! I think it’ll be a while before it all sinks in. (Below is a short promotional film for the book produced by Green Books).
