Participants at last year's Transition Cities conference.
I’ll be giving a last minute update about the conference in a day or two, but I have been asked to let you all know that due to some last minute cancellations we have an opportunity for a lucky few to book last minute for the Transition Network Conference which is happening from May 22-May 24. If you want one of these places please call Kristin on 07950542351. Places cost £85 which gives you access to the full smogasbord including workshops, open spaces, evening events, entertainment & lunch. It promises to be a wonderful weekend. For a peek at the programme see click here.
Following the recent piece about burnout, I am delighted to announce my own survival strategy given how bonkers Transition and my life has gone in recent months. We have a new post in Transition Network, Personal Assistant and Volunteer Manager, which, as the title suggests, is a combination of helping me out, and also co-ordinating volunteers. Here is the job description in PDF format (“The Catalyst” it refers to is me). If you interested, please send a CV and a covering letter explaining why you feel you would best be able to fill this post, by midday on June 19th 2009, to jo.coish(at) transitionnetwork.org. Thanks.
Had a fascinating afternoon recently at Schumacher College (you can read Simon Berry from DEFRA’s account of the day here). Schumacher is part of the Dartington Estate, and I was asked to speak about the future of Schumacher as part of the wider Dartington Estate. At present Dartington’s land is let for conventional dairy farming, and the lease comes up for renewal in 2014, so the process is starting of thinking what to do with the Estate’s 1000 acres. Here is the talk I gave, filmed on Simon’s phone…
I stumbled across The World’s Next Breath yesterday, and there was an interview with Hide Enomoto from Japan. Hide is the founder of Transition Fujino, passionate Transition advocate in Japan, and all round really lovely guy. This interview offers a fascinating update on how things are going in Japan.
The Transition Timeline, for a local, resilient future, Shaun Chamberlin, Green Books/Transition Network, 2009. Review from issue 60 of Permaculture Magazine.
This book doesn’t do what it says on the tin. It does, on the other hand, hold treasures which are not even hinted at in the title. A timeline, in the context of the transition movement, is an imagined story of the future. It helps us envision what the journey from the present to a more sustainable future might look like.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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Following the recent 
