Sally Lever just nominated Transition Culture for the Kreativ Blogger award. I am honoured to accept. This is a kind of ‘chain letter’ award, where people who are nominated then nominate 7 other blogs they admire. Having received it, I am now obliged to do 4 very specific things:
Not long to go now before the launch of the Brixton Pound. This is the first time, to the best of my knowledge, that an urban district has launched its own currency. It is a bold experiment, and like all the best bold experiments, it starts with a party; September 17th, 7.30pm, Lambeth Town Hall. There is expected to be huge demand for this historic event, so you need to book in advance. Personally speaking, I wouldn’t miss it for the world! I’ll be speaking at the launch, along with David Boyle of nef, and Derrick Anderson (Chief Executive of Lambeth Council). As a taster, here is an excellent article about the Brixton Pound by Josh Ryan-Collins, from the latest edition of Fourth World Review.
Ted Trainer (right, author of, among other things, the utterly indispensible ‘Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society’ just published a long and detailed piece which offers his thoughts on the Transition movement. He sent me an earlier draft which I, in return, sent him some detailed thoughts on. Given that the final published piece didn’t seem to take on many of the points I sent, the comments I wrote still stand as a response to it, and I offer them below in the hope that they offer a reasonable companion to Trainer’s considered piece.
I was honoured to be one of the signatories of a letter which was sent to the Queen last month, a response to the British Academy’s letter to her which sought to address her question as to why no-one had seen the economic meltdown coming. Here is the text of the letter in full.
Open Letter to the Queen: 14th August 2009
Your Majesty,
We, the undersigned, noted with interest the letter to Your Majesty of 22nd July 2009 from the British Academy in which they respond to your question about how the current economic meltdown was missed. They talked of a “failure of the collective imagination of many bright people” and a “psychology of denial”.
On May 30th 2009, Transition Glastonbury hosted an event called ‘Somerset in Transition’, which brought together people involved in Transition initiatives from across the county. Speakers included Jeremy Leggett, Shaun Chamberlin and Jacqi Hodgson. A young budding film maker, Jack Thompson-Roylance, from Glastonbury, brought along his camera and made a short film about the day. Here it is. Enjoy, and have a good weekend.
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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Sally Lever just nominated Transition Culture for the Kreativ Blogger award. I am honoured to accept. This is a kind of ‘chain letter’ award, where people who are nominated then nominate 7 other blogs they admire. Having received it, I am now obliged to do 4 very specific things:
Not long to go now before the launch of the 
Ted Trainer (right, author of, among other things, the utterly indispensible 
I was honoured to be one of the signatories of a letter which was sent to the Queen last month, a response to the British Academy’s letter to her which sought to address her question as to why no-one had seen the economic meltdown coming. Here is the text of the letter in full.
