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7 May 2008

Update on the ‘Totnes, the Nut Tree Capital of Britain’ Project

nuts I have written previously here at Transition Culture about the wonder of nut trees and on the project we have underway here to plant them in and around Totnes. Wendy Stayte and Teresa Anderson who have co-ordinated that project have written a very useful summary of the progress so far with transforming the town into ‘The Nut Tree Capital of Britain’. Their report appears below;

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2 May 2008

Richard Heinberg on Resilient Communities

A while ago I wrote about Richard Heinberg’s main presentation at the Findhorn Positive Energy course, which introduced his idea of Resilient Communities Action Plans. His talk has just been posted ontoYouTube and you can see it below;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9srawwb5LY

Part Two ¦ Part Three ¦ Part Four ¦ Part Five ¦ Part Six

You can also see my introduction to Richard’s talk here.

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1 May 2008

They don’t just shop local in Totnes – they have their very own currency

By Rob Sharp. The Independent. Thursday, 1 May 2008

If you were to nip down to Devon’s Totnes market on a Saturday looking to buy some spelt flour pancakes, crêpes or falafels, then you might just encounter Lou Brown, who is a remarkably fine cook. But she has another, non-culinary distinction. Unlike most businesses in the country, Brown does not deal in currency with a picture of the Queen’s head on it. No, instead, her change features an image much closer to home. The town where she lives.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Economics, Localisation, Peak Oil, Resilience, Transition Initiatives


24 Apr 2008

Patrick Whitefield Reviews The Transition Handbook

The Transition HandbookIt’s very rare that someone comes up with a genuinely new idea, but the concept of Transition Initiatives is one such. Transition aims to confront the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil at the level of the community – whether town, village, district or city – and for the initiative to come from the people themselves. Rob Hopkins is both the person who invented the idea and the author of this book.

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22 Apr 2008

Transition Ambridge Continues…

aIn last night’s Archers, Pat Archer took another step towards setting up Transition Ambridge, as she prepared for a fact-finding trip to Stroud.  The reference at the beginning to ‘King Cups’ is, I think, the name of one of their fields.  Anyway, in this episode, she is talking to her husband Tony, about how her Transition research is going, and about her trip. 

Pat. Do you want a hand with the milking Tony?

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