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Archive for “Peak Oil” category

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2 Apr 2007

Don’t Miss … The South West Premiere of “Crude Awakening”.

cp**Crude Awakening – the Oil Crash** is to peak oil what “An Inconvenient Truth” was to climate change. A cinema quality, feature film length movie that communicates the whole message. Transition Town Totnes is delighted to be able to present the South West premiere of the film on Thursday evening at The Barn Cinema, Dartington at 8pm. There are still some tickets left, and the film will be followed by a panel discussion which I will be chairing. You can read my review of the film here. See you there!

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28 Mar 2007

A Treehugger Interview about Transition Towns

thYou might be interested in an interview with me over at the excellent **Treehugger**. Treehugger have been enthusiastic about Transition Towns for some time now, and this culminated in this interview I did with them a few days ago. Not much else to say about it really, other than have a look, you might find it interesting.

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Categories: Community Involvement, Localisation, Peak Oil


22 Mar 2007

Exclusive to Transition Culture – An Interview with Jerry Mander.

j4.**Jerry Mander** was in Totnes recently teaching at Schumacher College, and he gave a Wednesday evening talk for Transition Town Totnes which was excellent and very well attended. For those of you who don’t know who he is, here is what Wikipedia has to say about him. “Jerry Mander is an American activist best known for his book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), and for his contribution to a book on an unrelated topic, The Great International Paper Airplane Book (1971).

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21 Mar 2007

Transition City Bristol Kicks Off Tonight With A Talk By Dr. Chris Johnstone.

bristolThis evening sees the first event from Transition City Bristol, the largest scale Transition project in the UK (yet). Dr. Chris Johnstone will be giving a talk tonight at 7pm at the Trinity Centre, Bristol. Chris was a star at the Official Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes, and his talk will be called “Personal Power for the Planet: looking at ways you can deepen your determination, cultivate enthusiasm and become more inspired”.

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19 Mar 2007

Transition Town Totnes on the Two Degree Show.

coinThe concept of Transition Towns and the work underway here in Totnes was the subject of a recent edition of **The Two Degree Show** which is broadcast in London on Resonance 104.4FM and which you will find archived here. The archive is hosted by the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN) and is syndicated to other community radio stations. In the archive you will also find other previous interviews, including George Monbiot, Meyer Hillman and Mark Lynas.

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Categories: Climate Change, Community Involvement, Food, Localisation, Peak Oil