Two days to go until the previews of ‘In Transition 2.0‘! In our second ‘In Transition 2.0’ podcast, I spoke to Beccy Strong (see right filming in Rwanda), who filmed most of the UK-based sequences in the film, and asked her 5 quick questions. You will also hear, interspersed in this short podcast, some clips from the film itself. In our next podcast, we’ll be hearing from Rebecca Mayes, who composed all of the music used in the film.
I was reminded by this recent piece by Dr Chris Johnstone over at ClimateCodeRed of the meeting that he and I held in June 2006 with Dr Stephen Rollnick. This was back when I was researching the Transition Handbook, and we met for a day to discuss how insights from the psychology of health behaviour change might be helpful when tackling environmental issues like climate change and peak oil. It was fascinating, and I realised as I read Chris’ article that I had never posted the transcript of that conversation here yet. So here it is, slightly dated, but hopefully containing some insights you will find useful (it’s quite long!). My thanks to Chris and Stephen for a fascinating day (nearly 6 years ago!).
It’s less than a week to go until ‘In Transition 2.0’ is previewed in each of the places whose stories appear in the film. For example, it will be previewed in a fire station in Moss Side in Manchester, a community centre in Lyttelton in New Zealand that was one of only a few buildings there to survive the earthquake (their screening starts at 9am), a Hindu temple in Tooting in London, a ‘Cinema Paradiso’ in a village in rural India, and in a village hall in Japan (see here for the full list of previews). I caught up with producer Emma Goude to ask her 5 quick questions about the film.
Here is the January Transition podcast, lovingly spliced together in order to offer a more in depth look at three of the stories from last month’s round-up. You’ll hear about how Transition Chesham’s local produce market was recently voted the greenest market in Britain, how Transition Town Whitehead are planning to plant 60,000 trees over the next few weeks, and how Transition Town Shrewsbury stepped in when the local council announced that it was stopping collecting cardboard for recycling, and did it themselves. I hope you enjoy it, and do let us know what you think.
Today I’d like to share a map with you (click on it and it will magically fill your screen), and I’m hugely grateful to Geri Smyth for giving me this. It is a map of the town of Guildford (or Guldeford as it was then) in 1793. Regular readers will know I love a good map, and I have spent a fair while poring over this one. There are a couple of things I love about it. Firstly, it is the most amazing piece of draughtsmanship. It is a thing of extraordinary beauty in a way that Googlemaps can only dream of. The way its laid out, the calligraphy, the attention to detail, are beautiful in a way very few people could recreate today. But what is so extraordinary, upon closer inspection, is how it captures what it looks like when food grows everywhere. Think of it, if you like, as Incredible Edible Guildford, circa. 1739.
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Two days to go until the previews of ‘In Transition 2.0‘! In our second ‘In Transition 2.0’ podcast, I spoke to Beccy Strong (see right filming in Rwanda), who filmed most of the UK-based sequences in the film, and asked her 5 quick questions. You will also hear, interspersed in this short podcast, some clips from the film itself. In our next podcast, we’ll be hearing from Rebecca Mayes, who composed all of the music used in the film.
