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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.
By now you may have noticed that Transition Culture looks somewhat different. I thought that, to co-incide with the arrival of The Transition Handbook it was time to give the site a makeover, given that it has looked exactly the same since it began in November 2005. The redesign was done by Simon of Lumpy Lemon in Oxford, and I rather like it… . It tidies up the links down the right hand side that had become very long and sprawly, and is hopefully a joy for you to use. What do you think? Do let us know your thoughts on our new look.
You’re going to hate me for this, your life will never be the same again. Quick ways of peeling eggs may not be at the top of the Great Reskilling agenda, but my entire family has recently become intrigued by a particular approach to egg peeling that has been keeping people busy on YouTube. The story begins with the following film which purports to show a jolly bloke at his kitchen table apparently setting a challenge to the rest of the world by making it look perfectly simple to peel an egg in under 10 seconds by simply taking the ends off and blowing it out of its shell. Clearly not exactly up there with building a cob wall or even mastering the growing of Ruby Chard, but pretty impressive nonetheless.
**The Transition Handbook** will be available to order here at Transition Culture on February 28th, the wait is nearly over (more on that soon). By way of starting to introduce you to it, and by way of whetting your appetite for its many wonders, here is the introduction to the book, which first introduces the concept of resilience.
*Apricots drying on rooftops in Hunza. A drawing from the author’s sketchbook, August 1990.*
The piece I mentioned before that was going to appear on BBC1’s The One Show about Transition Town Totnes, has, according to the show’s website been rescheduled for tonight. People who tuned in last time talked of a feature about swans that just went on too long, and something about Lenny Henry, which meant that they ran out of time for the Totnes piece, so fingers crossed that tonight is the night. If you miss it, you will be able to watch it for the next 7 days on the BBC I-Player.
It’s that time of year when I pop the laptop in a drawer, turn off the mobile phone, and try to stop thinking incessantly about energy descent strategies, the best kind of wood to edge raise beds with and whether solar panels are a terrorist threat, putting **Transition Culture** to bed for a week or two. The New Year will bring the release of the third Totnes Pound (they’re gorgeous) and a redesign of this site in January, the publication of **The Transition Handbook** in late February (you’re gonna love it), the Positive Energy conference at Findhorn in March (finally, I get to meet Joanna Macy) and the second national Transition Network gathering in April. Beyond that, who knows, but given the current rates of growth of the Transition Network, it should be a busy year. I’d like to thank you for your companionship over the past 12 months, for all your comments and suggestions, and for actually reading the stuff I blearily post on here most mornings. I’d also like to wish you a Happy Christmas, Solstice or whatever you call this time and its gift of making us stop work, take some time with loved ones and reflect on the past year. **Transition Culture** will be back on January 7th and will, among other things, continue working through Ted Trainer’s questions. See you then, and thanks again.
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By now you may have noticed that Transition Culture looks somewhat different. I thought that, to co-incide with the arrival of The Transition Handbook it was time to give the site a makeover, given that it has looked exactly the same since it began in November 2005. The redesign was done by Simon of Lumpy Lemon in Oxford, and I rather like it… . It tidies up the links down the right hand side that had become very long and sprawly, and is hopefully a joy for you to use. What do you think? Do let us know your thoughts on our new look.
