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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.
Transition Culture has made the Top 20 in the Daily (Maybe)’s Best Green Blogs 2008, albeit slipping back from last year‘s heady 4th place to a probably far more realistic 19th place. Thanks to Jim Jay for the inclusion, and for putting this together every year. It is great to have some kind of acknowledgement of the hard work done by some of the wonderful bloggers out there in greenblogland. We did slightly better in Iain Dale’s Top 20 Green Blogs, coming 12th. Thanks to everyone who voted for us there. You can also vote for the Daily (Maybe)’s People’s Choice Award (entries close by September 1st, so you haven’t got long)… if you felt like clicking here and giving your vote to Transition Culture we’d be very grateful. Thanks!
I am signing off now for 3 weeks.It is time to focus on family and on relaxation rather than email and dashing hither and thither.In the spirit of taking time to celebrate what is beautiful and important, I will leave you with this video, by Icelandic band Sigur Ros (who I can’t get enough of at the moment).
It is utterly bewitching and makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up (especially the end). If it doesn’t make you cry, you probably need a break too…. Transition Culture will be back with you around August 22nd.Until then, be good, and may your carrots grow straight and true.
Most of us live in houses built before there was any awareness of energy efficiency, and consequently most of us live in houses that are insufficiently insulated, excessively draughty, poorly oriented and costly to heat.While we may dream of strawbale passive houses, the reality is that most of us will spend the rest of our lives in these houses.As we plunge headlong into a world of soaring energy prices (the average family expected to spend £1000 on gas by the end of the year) we can no longer afford to, in effect, heat the skies above our homes.So what to do?On Saturday 5th July, TTT held an event that visited 3 very different houses in Totnes to look at the challenges particular to them.
I spent a couple of days last week attending the Green New Deal think-tank type event in London, and at one point we were asked to speak about what we thought we would see in the world in 50 months from now (late 2012). One of the things I came up with was “the first World Cup Finals to be cancelled because no-one could get to them”.While football isn’t a subject often touched on here at Transition Culture, I have to confess I love it, and am fascinated by what we might come to call ‘peak football’.Football is not immune to the credit crunch nor to rising fuel prices, and in this age of ridiculous salaries being given to top players and insane transfer fees, something, at some point, has to give, and it looks like it might be starting to happen as we speak.
Last Saturday we had Starhawk in Totnes giving a talk as part of Transition Town Totnes‘ programme of talks. Her talk was excellent, very inspiring (and she kept it all together even when one woman in the audience collapsed and had to be taken off in an ambulance), and at the end she did a guided visualisation thing which I thought was a very useful tool for helping people to start visualising a powered-down future. You might like to try it out with your Transition group if it feels useful… I can see places where it might come in useful, although I often avoid the term ‘visualisation’ as it can press some peoples’ woo-woo buttons… I tend to call it ‘an imagination exercise’, or somesuch…. anyway, it went something like this….
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Transition Culture has made the Top 20 in the Daily (Maybe)’s Best Green Blogs 2008, albeit slipping back from last year‘s heady 4th place to a probably far more realistic 19th place. Thanks to Jim Jay for the inclusion, and for putting this together every year. It is great to have some kind of acknowledgement of the hard work done by some of the wonderful bloggers out there in greenblogland. We did slightly better in Iain Dale’s Top 20 Green Blogs, coming 12th. Thanks to everyone who voted for us there. You can also vote for the Daily (Maybe)’s People’s Choice Award (entries close by September 1st, so you haven’t got long)… if you felt like clicking here and giving your vote to Transition Culture we’d be very grateful. Thanks!
