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This is rather wonderful, and worth a few minutes of your time. In advance of tomorrow’s meeting in Bristol to discuss and refine the Transition Network Structure Document, Shirky’s insights into collaboration and self organisation are fascinating and very relevant. Thanks to James Samuel in New Zealand for coming across this…
This morning is a bit of a non-post really, just a collection of odds and sods. First is the reminder that the first Transition Chat takes place today at 2pm, focused on the Structure document, to find out more click here. The latest Transition Network newsletter is just out, if you are not subscribed to recieve it, click here. We have a great event in Totnes tonight, focusing on Transition Tales…
Just days away from the second anniversary of the ‘Unleashing’ of Transition Town Totnes, the 100th ‘official’ Transition Initiative, Transition Fujino in Japan achieved its Transition Town status! Fujino is a town of around 10,000 people, which inhabits the ‘edge’ between Tokyo and rural Japan. By all accounts it is a kind of Japanese Totnes/Lewes… a progressive community which was home to the Japanese permaculture movement, and is also home to a Steiner School. It is also home to the team who are translating the Transition Primer into Japanese! A fitting place for it to start….
On Tuesday 9th September 2008 at the Foundry Gallery in Lewes, Transition Town Lewes will be launching the Lewes Pound, the second currency to be issued by a Transition initiative, the first being the Totnes Pound (although Brixton are at the early stage of planning their Brixton Brick). The evening will be hosted by the Mayor of Lewes, and will include short talks by Stewart Wallis, Executive Director, New Economics Foundation, Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist and author and myself.
You’ll find out over the next few days about what I was reading during my holiday, but it was fascinating to read about what the UK’s MP’s have been reading on theirs…. the following comes courtesy of the BBC website… Number 10 (which was actually joint 5th..) comes as a bit of a surprise….
