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Archive for “Community Involvement” category
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15 May 2007
**A Review: from** Transition City Bristol’s **website**.
“Over 200 people packed the Trinity Centre on Tuesday night to hear Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement. With towns and now cities across the UK taking up the Transition challenge the experiment has left the laboratory and is going viral in the wild. Soil Association director Patrick Holden introduced Rob, reliving the point in history when he first heard Rob speak and the massive impact on his life, farming and work that it had.
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14 May 2007
A couple of weeks ago in Totnes, as part of the Great Reskilling programme, we held a workshop with Keith Ellis from Transition Town Lewes called **A Hands-on Introduction to YouTube Video Activism**, which aimed to teach people how to make short films just using a digital camera and a laptop, and to transfer them onto sites such as YouTube and VideoGoogle, a cheap and very powerful way of communicating ideas of transition and energy descent. The course was a great success, with about 15 people with widely varying experience of making films spending the day filming and editing a number of short films.
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8 May 2007
**Retrofitting Suburbia**
EON: David Holmgren, the co-originator with Bill Mollison of Permaculture, doesn’t agree that peak oil spells the ‘end of suburbia.’ He envisions using all that lawn space to grow food. Do you agree with catastrophic expectations for suburbia?
RH: Well, I think although “The End of Suburbia
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7 May 2007
A month or so ago,
Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle of the Ecological Options Network visited Totnes to do an interview with me about Transition Towns. We also wandered around Totnes in the rain (anyone remember rain?) and filmed bits in different places for a film they were making. Anyway, my memory of the interview we did was that it was quite brief, but they just sent me the transcript of it and it goes on and on! Here it is, it covers a lot of ground, and gives quite a nice overview of the Transition Towns idea and much else besides. Many thanks to Mary Beth and James for allowing me to reproduce it here.
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26 Apr 2007
On Tuesday night Transition Town Lewes held their Official Unleashing at Lewes Town Hall. Only the third town to organise an Unleashing, Lewes put on a wonderful event, one which will have been very memorable for all those involved. Over 400 people packed into the Town Hall to hear
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**A Review: from** Transition City Bristol’s **website**. 
