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Showing results 16 - 20 of 38 for the month of September, 2010.
Here’s a great short film about the Hale Local Food Market, started by the Hale & Redlynch Transition Group (part of New Forest Transition), lead by Richard & Paula Downard. The market takes place on the third Saturday of every month. I love these little films of Transition on the ground…
Well yesterday’s first one went very well, some great comments, thanks all. Today’s pattern is about the Project Support concept.
Context
This pattern is a key part of BECOMING A FORMAL ORGANISATION, offering an underlying principle designed to ensure that the key focus of the initiative is its WORKING GROUPS and PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS and the role of the rest of the organisation is to support those.
So here we go, the first of many patterns for your delectation and delight ….the original pattern can be found in the evolving pattern directory. To leave comments, suggest examples, criticisms, anecdotes, case studies, projects, essential further reading, or to offer photos you feel better capture the essence of the pattern than the photo I have used, please follow the link and use the comments box (comments have been disabled here so we can gather all the comments in one place). In case you’re wondering what this is all about, there is an explanation with links here. They are not being posted in order… you can see the larger context, the evolving directory of patterns, here.
Totnes Civic Hall, now graced with 75 photovoltaic panels...
On Saturday Transition Town Totnes held one of those events that feels really celebratory and somehow like it marks a significant step forward in the whole Transition process (well, in Totnes anyway…). The Transition Streets Energy Fair was designed to celebrate the new photovoltaic installation on the Civic Hall, to inspire a new round of recruitment for Transition Streets, to provide the public with access to a range of renewable energy installers and information, and to raise the whole profile of renewables and energy conservation. It did all of these, and more, in a very well-attended day with a great buzz.
Over the coming few months I will be sharing with you the ongoing work in developing the patterns-based model of Transition that will form the centrepiece of the second version of the Transition Handbook, starting on Monday. I have explained how that approach will work before, and it was also set out in the booklet produced for the 2010 Transition Network conference. To do this, we are trying out a different approach, not a wiki, but a rather exciting way of gathering your input. These patterns need to be alive and rich with your hard-won experience, your failures as well as your successes. Here’s how it will work:
