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22 Jul 2008
Over the last couple of months, as an outcome of the Transition Strategy Day in Bristol in April, Peter Lipman and myself have been putting together a document which explores how the Transition Network, both as the formal organisation and as the wider movement, might structure itself, entitled The Transition Network: a Proposal for Structure. The resultant document is now ready for wider consultation, and we are very keen to hear your feedback. We think it is a historic document of great importance to the future of where this whole Transition thing goes… You can download the pdf. of the document here, and you are invited to post any feedback, comments, suggestions or additions here (rather than email them to us), or leave them as comments below. Thank you!
** Update ** The date has now been set for a discussion day on the contents of this document. It will be held on Wednesday 10th September at The Full Moon in Bristol, and anyone who is involved in Transition initiatives and who wants to input into this document is welcome. It will run from 11pm until 4pm. See you there! (note change of venue).
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22 Jul 2008
In March, at the Findhorn Positive Energy conference, I was asked, when I arrived, to screw up the talk I had prepared and come up with something that reflected the rest of the conference. Here is the talk I ended up giving, complete with exuberant introduction. It was a talk I really enjoyed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kizxt14aPM8
Part Two ¦ Part Three ¦ Part Four ¦ Part Five ¦ Part Six
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21 Jul 2008
I had the privilege last week to attend a kind of think tank thing organised by Colin Hines, which preceded the release today of the Green New Deal Group’s report, which I think is something that all of you involved in Transition work will find extremely useful. The Group has been meeting since early 2007, consisting of Larry Elliot, Colin Hines, Tony Juniper, Jeremy Leggett, Caroline Lucas MEP, Richard Murphy, Ann Pettifor, Charles Secrett and Andrew Simms. The opening paragraph of the report runs as follows;
“The global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’. It is a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and soaring energy prices underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production. These three overlapping events threaten to develop into a perfect storm, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Depression. To help prevent this from happening we are proposing a Green New Deal”.
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16 Jul 2008
Once again the pile of books by my bed is reaching heights that are beginning to verge on the life threatening. I am developing the terrible habit of starting several books at once, and so I have about 10 books on the go at the moment (don’t try this at home kids) all of which are wonderful and insightful in their own ways. I’ve done this listing-of-useful-books thing before, and it seemed to go down well, so here it is again….
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11 Jul 2008
The Transition Ambridge (or “Tran – sish – ee – oh – ney Ambridge”, as character Joe Grundy called it the other day) storyline in the Archers continues, with people setting up the “Ambridge Swap Club” and starting to form their working groups. In the story, the village has its website, maintained by Jennifer Aldridge. This is mirrored on the BBC’s website, which now has a section about Transition Ambridge which is spookily like something you might actually find out there in Transition-land. Bit disappointing that all Pat Archer, who founded the whole thing in the first place and who runs a diverse organic farm and local cheese and yoghurt production, is offering is asparagus, which by this time of year is going to somewhat stringy, but it is fascinating seeing where this storyline is going…
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Over the last couple of months, as an outcome of the Transition Strategy Day in Bristol in April, Peter Lipman and myself have been putting together a document which explores how the Transition Network, both as the formal organisation and as the wider movement, might structure itself, entitled The Transition Network: a Proposal for Structure. The resultant document is now ready for wider consultation, and we are very keen to hear your feedback. We think it is a historic document of great importance to the future of where this whole Transition thing goes… You can download the pdf. of the document here, and you are invited to post any feedback, comments, suggestions or additions here (rather than email them to us), or leave them as comments below. Thank you!
