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6 Oct 2008
We had the pleasure recently of having Roberto Perez, he of ‘The Power of Community’ fame, in Totnes recently to give a talk, imaginatively entitled, erm, ‘The Power of Community’. He was quite brilliant, painting a powerful picture of how Cuba responded to its own peak oil experience. Thanks to Carl Munson at Traydio.com, you can now hear both his talk and also a rather rousing bit he came out with at the end of the Q&A after the talk. Our deepest thanks to Roberto for his time here. I had a very pleasant early morning stroll around the Agroforestry Research Trust’s forest garden with him before he headed off to his next talk, in Birmingham. Here is Nicky Scott from Chagford’s write-up of Roberto’s talk;
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6 Oct 2008
We are always on the look out for, and developing, new tools and activities for helping people to look forward and vision the future. At the recent launch of the Energy Descent Pathways project, a great activity developed for the evening, used a very creative way of enabling people to imagine themselves in a Totnes that had successfully made the Transition away from oil dependency. The exercise used role play and drama, and staged a school reunion in which four characters told their stories, with the help of everyone else attending, of what had happened to them in the 22 years since 2008.
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3 Oct 2008
There are a few books that I have read during my life that can be described as ‘seminal’, that have prompted a great change in direction or thinking. Some books that have had that effect include Fukuouka’s “One Straw Revolution”, Mollison’s “Permaculture”, Holmgren’s “Permaculture: principles and pathways”, the collected works of Joanna Macy and, on a slightly more mundane level, Joe Jenkins’ ‘The Humanure Handbook’. I can now add another to that list, Charles Leadbeater’s book ‘WeThink’. The implications of this book are vast, and its importance is something that I am only just starting to grasp. Inspired by it, I am launching here today the rewriting of the second edition of the Transition Handbook, with those out actually doing Transition rewriting the book as a collaborative process.
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2 Oct 2008
I have linked you now to a couple of things that have been posted on Traydio.com. In essence, Traydio is a sort of audio YouTube, where people can post interesting audio files. They have now created a Transition section, and are inviting people to post any interesting Transition-related audio there. Have a look, there are a few things there, although very Totnessy so far. I’m sure a good few of you out there have digital recordings of talks or of interesting Transition stuff, so rather than letting it gather dust, whack it onto Traydio so we can all have a listen! It is very simple, just click here and follow the instructions, the user name is transition (all lower case), and the password is the same. Thanks!
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30 Sep 2008
I am very grateful to Pete North at the University of Liverpool for his permission to publish here the latest draft of a very important paper he has written for an upcoming edition of the journal Geoforum, which will focus on responses to peak oil. Pete’s paper is a fascinating overview of the arguments for and against localisation, which gives a deep view of the debates and of how Transition fits into that. I am involved in writing one for the same publication, which looks deeper into Transition itself, I’ll let you see that nearer the time. Pete asks for any feedback or comments you might have, do post them as comments below.
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We had the pleasure recently of having Roberto Perez, he of ‘The Power of Community’ fame, in Totnes recently to give a talk, imaginatively entitled, erm, ‘The Power of Community’. He was quite brilliant, painting a powerful picture of how Cuba responded to its own peak oil experience. Thanks to Carl Munson at Traydio.com, you can now hear both his talk and also a rather rousing bit he came out with at the end of the Q&A after the talk. Our deepest thanks to Roberto for his time here. I had a very pleasant early morning stroll around the Agroforestry Research Trust’s forest garden with him before he headed off to his next talk, in Birmingham. Here is Nicky Scott from Chagford’s write-up of Roberto’s talk;
