19 Apr 2016
In October 2013, Peter Lipman and I travelled to the US, initially to be part of the Environmental Grantmakers’ Association annual retreat, but also to visit a number of Transition groups. I had, at the time, not flown for 7 years, having
vowed not to fly again having seen
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in 2006. The “to fly or not to fly” issue is one
we had debated previously too (the comment thread is especially good). The decision to fly to the US was the result of a huge amount of soul-searching, captured
in a blog at the time. In it I wrote:
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18 Apr 2016
As part of our theme of ‘International’, we have been looking at the UK’s forthcoming EU in/out referendum from different perspectives. We thought it might be interesting to get a view on it from
Juliet Davenport of Good Energy. How might a Brexit vote affect the push for a renewable energy system in this country?
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4 Apr 2016
The rise of the film ‘
Demain‘ appears unstoppable. Viewed in France now by almost a million people, winner of the Cesar award for Best Documentary, lined up for release in at least 30 other countries, the film has been received with standing ovations, and has inspired many people to roll their sleeves up and do things everywhere it has screened. As we will hear next week, it has also proved the most amazing platform for Transition groups. Last week he attended, with co-producer Melanie Laurent, a screening of the film at the UN in New York where David Nabarro, Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, told them, “this film should be part of the training of all the political leaders of this planet.” We spoke to him recently, and asked him to tell us more about himself:
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