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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.
Richard O’Rourke has recently had the unenviable task of writing about peak oil and potential solutions to it as part of a Masters at the London School of Economics, that great bastion of Flat Earth economists. His dissertation, entitled “Transition Towns: Ecotopia Emerging? The role of Civil Society in escaping Carbon Lock-In” examines the Transition model in the context of the concept of Ecotopia, and of previous green movements. You can download this excellent piece of work here. It also features in the introduction his story of his ‘peak oil moment’ and his subsequent attempts to communicate that awareness within LSE. The dissertation itself is a fascinating take on where Transition has got to.
You might enjoy this… it is a short film documenting the first Scottish Transition Gathering at The Big Tent Festival, Scotland’s Stewardship Festival, which was held in Falkland, Fife between Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 July 2008. I love it when people produce these kind of short films that allow an insight into what is happening in different parts of the world.
The documentary filming training course that was running next week has been cancelled due to insufficient response. We’re taking this as a good thing. It means you don’t need any training! Chris and I have spent this week poking around Transitionland for some exciting stories. We’ve found some real crackers. More on these next time. The place where transition was born, Kinsale, is going to feature in the film. Rob Carr from Cultivate has been doing some filming for a 10 part TV series in Ireland and he’s keen to help us out with our film.
US national debt clock runs out of digits. From NDTVProfit.
Thursday, October 09, 2008. Thanks to Tom Barnett for sending me this…
Such is the surge in America’s debt that even technology is finding it difficult to measure its level as a clock earmarked for keeping a tab on country’s national debt has run out of digits! The operator of the National Debt Clock, installed at Times Square in New York, has now dropped the dollar sign in the total figure to accommodate a ten trillion dollar figure. A replacement for the clock with two additional digits that would be able to account for up to quadrillion dollars of debt is expected only by the next year. The existing clock can accommodate up to 9,999,999,999,999 dollars (just one dollar short of $ 10-trillion) of debt with a dollar sign ($) preceding it, but the clock has started showing the figure without the dollar sign after the debt level recently reached the 10-trillion dollar level.
Chris Watson and Emma Goude, producers of The Transition Movie, out filming in Totnes.
I have asked Emma if she might do a regular blog here to keep you up to date with the Transition Movie and how you might get involved… here is her first post:
We’ve had 18 responses to the call for people to get involved with the Transition Movie. Some are professional film makers, some amateurs and some brave souls who’ve never done any filming before. This is a great start.Only 3 people have expressed an interest in the training though.We’re assuming this is because you’re all so experienced.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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Richard O’Rourke has recently had the unenviable task of writing about peak oil and potential solutions to it as part of a Masters at the London School of Economics, that great bastion of Flat Earth economists. His dissertation, entitled “Transition Towns: Ecotopia Emerging? The role of Civil Society in escaping Carbon Lock-In” examines the Transition model in the context of the concept of Ecotopia, and of previous green movements. You can download this excellent piece of work here. It also features in the introduction his story of his ‘peak oil moment’ and his subsequent attempts to communicate that awareness within LSE. The dissertation itself is a fascinating take on where Transition has got to. 
