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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.
The good folks of Transition Town Lewes have made a great little 5 minute film to promote their initiative and also their Official Unleashing, which takes place on **April 24th** and will include presentations by myself and Dr. Chris Johnstone. The TTL group is currently going for their Awareness Raising stage with great gusto, and hopefully April’s Unleashing will propel them forward with great vigour. This great little promo gives a sense of the momentum gathering down there…
With next weekend’s Soil Association conference, **One Planet Agriculture** becoming the first ever Soil Association conference to be sold out in advance, it would appear that its theme of peak oil and the relocalisation of food production has hit a chord. Speakers include Richard Heinberg, Colin Campbell, Jeremy Leggett, Jonathan Porritt and **Transition Culture’s** own Rob Hopkins. The Soil Association just posted a podcast and interview in which Soil Association director **Patrick Holden** waxes lyrical about the impact that peak oil and the Transition Towns concept has had on his, and the Association’s, thinking. I will report in detail on the conference, and try and write up most of the keynote speakers. Here is the text of Patrick’s interview….
Last Wednesday the writer and physicist **Peter Russell** gave a talk at St. John’s Church in Totnes as part of the TTT programme called **’Time to Wake Up!’** It was attended by about 270 people and was a great evening. I didn’t take any notes or anything useful or intelligent like that, but what I wanted to share with you was the poem that he recited at the end of the talk. The following day I did an interview with him which I will post here once I have transcribed it, but for now I just want to share the poem with you.
**Transition Culture** will be taking a break for the next couple of weeks, what with it being Christmas and everything. We’ll be back posting on **January 8th** with, among other things, our slightly delayed second George Monbiot review, the 10 First Steps for a Transition Town, and the full new Transition Town Totnes programme for January to March (its a peach). Wishing you all the best for a Happy Christmas/Solstice or whatever (but not Winterval, a ghastly term I heard the other day, if you celebrate that you can do it on your own). Many thanks for all your support, comments and limericks during 2006. See you next year.
Most of my work in relocalisation centres around towns rather than cities, and I am often asked how I think the Energy Descent Planning approach might apply to cities. Here is a very insightful and inspiring look at what they are up to in Portland, Oregon.
It is a great example of the benefits of avoiding a them-and-us approach, as peak oil activist and local authority representative sit side by side on a sofa and talk about preparing for peak oil. Exemplary stuff, and interesting to see how their approach is similar to what we are doing, on a smaller scale, in Transition Town Totnes.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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The good folks of Transition Town Lewes have made a great little 5 minute film to promote their initiative and also their Official Unleashing, which takes place on **April 24th** and will include presentations by myself and Dr. Chris Johnstone. The TTL group is currently going for their Awareness Raising stage with great gusto, and hopefully April’s Unleashing will propel them forward with great vigour. This great little promo gives a sense of the momentum gathering down there…
