Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
Come find me at robhopkins.net
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Well, not so much fun as funny. Robert Newman is, alongside Mark Thomas, a new breed of comic. He sees the time he has on the stage with an audience as an opportunity not only to make them laugh but also to make them think. His show, **Apocalypso Now**, recently released on CD, makes geopolitics, US global hegemony and peak oil something you can both be enlightened about while rolling around laughing. I particularly liked
I intend, as a rule, to avoid any party politics on **Transition Culture**. However, just as a one-off, I feel compelled to address the issue. ‘Compassionate conservatism’ and ‘Tory environmentalists’ are what are commonly known as **oxymorons**. If you aren’t familiar with the term oxymoron have a look at this. David Cameron, their new leader, is trying to regain the middle ground of people who are naturally Tories, who go to Farmers Markets and recycle their bottles. Nick Cohen in Sunday’s Observer in an article called ‘It’s farcical how Cameron has rescued Blair’s ideas from the rubbish dump’, does a good job of pointing out that somehow it just doesn’t wash. Anyone who lived through the Thatcher years would be hard put to see them as green in any way.
However, some people with green leanings are already talking about going to the Tories as the green party of choice. In the same issue of The Observer
Contrary to what I wrote a week ago, I have now obtained and posted pdf. versions of **’Woodlands for West Cork!’** and **’Permaculture – a new approach for rural planning’**, both of which I wrote quite a while ago, but which you may find of interest.
Thanks to Philip Beck for suggesting that I could get them scanned! You will find them in the **pdf. downloads** section.
Putting this website together has been a very interesting process for me, tracking down long forgotten articles and reviews, and pulling them all together in one place. Most things have been found, some are still to go on the site, and will have within a week or so. The only thing that I haven’t found and have now given up on ever finding is an electronic copy of my dissertation, which was all about Permaculture and rural planning, and which generated a lot of interest when it came out in 1996. Unfortunately at the time I wasn’t so computer savvy and so never kept a back up. Oh well.
Thanks to Tim at Permaculture Magazine for making pdf. files of various articles, which you can find in the pdf. downloads section and to Michael at Earthscan for tracking down the chapter I wrote for a book they did. Do let me know any feedback or thoughts on how to improve the site.
You know how it sometimes when you read something and it sums up so neatly something that you have been thinking for ages but not quite been able to articulate? Well, on the train on my way home tonight I read something like that, and it was very powerful. I first read articles by Tom Atlee in Permaculture Activist magazine a couple of years ago, and found them very useful. Tom runs the Co-Intelligence Institute, and does wonderful work looking at the ‘heart’ side of social change work. On his website you will find a treasure trove of articles and insights into his work. This article is a letter he wrote to a friend, and is titled “Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities”. You can read the full article here. Here is a section from it that I found particularly relevant to Energy Descent Planning work.
