Transition Culture

An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent

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.

Archive for “Storytelling” category

Showing results 186 - 190 of 219 for the category: Storytelling.


18 Oct 2010

A recent talk from Derby, illustrated…

Here is a rather clever thing which was produced from a talk I gave recently for Transition Derby, which mixes the slideshow and an audio file.  Very clever.

View more webinars from Transition Derby.

Read more»


4 Oct 2010

A September Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

It’s October already, so it’s time to share September’s Transition activities from across the world…  we have lots of news from Transition groups in the Netherlands. Their Renewable Energy Project has 75 households involved in it, which between them will have about 800 solar panels on their roofs in the coming spring. Also their first Local and Interest Free money project was launched at the end of September, and they also recently held a Post-fossil Festival, with lots of interesting activities going on. Their ‘Share your stuff – with people you trust’ social website, launched in August, has seen 688 people share 832 goods…wow! They’ve also been making ‘eatable façade gardens’ in the heart of the old city of Deventer, and there’s a great video too:

Read more»


4 Oct 2010

That 10:10 film… not in my name….

Oh dear, oh dear. I had seen Frannie Armstrong’s newsletters talking about a forthcoming promo film for 10:10 being made by Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually etc), but actually got to sit down and watch it last night. I have to say I am shocked, and appalled by this, and I’m on their side! The reaction to it has been largely negative and the whole saga entirely self defeating, the very people it was presumably meant to invite to be part of 10:10 feeling understandably judged, revolted and assaulted by it. If you haven’t seen it, here it is, you’ll need to have seen it for what I am going to write to make any sense….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k

Read more»


1 Oct 2010

Transitions, Diverse Routes to Belonging – conference in Scotland Nov-2010

Missed the Transition Conference and can’t wait till next year – or simply keen to delve deeply into understanding the wider movement of which Transition is a part?

Transition Scotland Support is hosting the Transitions, Diverse Routes to Belonging conference with the support of Transition Network and Edinburgh University. The conference is on the weekend of November 20th-21st (with overnight accommodation available from the 19th) and will be a chance to deepen and broaden our understanding, our alliances and our actions.  This conference is a truly international feast and will be a fantastic opportunity to see how Transition can make new alliances and work with the other movements and initiatives which are all aiming at reclaiming our creative, collaborative, place-based way of living.

Read more»

Discussion: Comments Off on Transitions, Diverse Routes to Belonging – conference in Scotland Nov-2010

Categories: Resilience, Storytelling, The 'Heart' of Energy Descent, Transition Initiatives, Transition Network


28 Sep 2010

A Report from the 2010 Transition Cascadia Regional Summit

Here is a guest blog from David Johnson…

On Thursday, September 15th an historic event took place in the development of Transition on the North American continent. With over 70 people in attendance from across the North West, the first Northwest/Cascadian Transition Summit took place in Seattle. In such a large continent with diverse geographies, bioregional networks can help Initiatives in a given area link in with each other, sharing skills, resources and best practices, and so build strength and support within their bioregion. On this day even national borders were no boundary, with people traveling down from Canada to join in the conversations.

Read more»

Discussion: Comments Off on A Report from the 2010 Transition Cascadia Regional Summit

Categories: Community Involvement, Culture, Diversity, Localisation, Resilience, Storytelling, Transition Initiatives