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I wrote recently about the event in Wadebridge I spoke at with Anthony Gibson of the National Farmers Union which explored, among other things, biofuels, organics and localisation. In the interests of balance and on throwing more light onto the different perspectives that were aired that night, and offering a different perspective, here is Mr. Gibson’s regular column in the Western Morning News.
The last couple of weeks have rather felt like a whirlwind of talks here there and everywhere, travelling late on trains and being up far too late. People often ask about films of talks and where they are available, so here is a recent talk I did that has just been posted online. A few months ago I spoke at **Cornwall’s future – land use, resource depletion & changing climate**, a conference at Duchy College in Cornwall organised by Transition Penwith and Environment Kernow, who are part of the Cornish Strategic Partnership and who bring together a group of various organisations with an interest in sustainability in Cornwall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIXgaftMgVw
The event, which I wrote about here before, was excellent, featuring Dr. Colin Campbell, David Strahan, Patrick Holden and myself. Those good people at Environment Kernow filmed the talks and have just posted them on YouTube. Here is the first part of the talk I gave, which looked at applying the Transition approach to food and farming.
Thought you might like to see the links to the **Transition Network**’s latest newsletter. In it you will find out the latest news from Network and also about the latest Transition Initiatives and a wealth of other stuff. You will also hear the latest about the 2008 Transition Network conference/gathering thing. It will be held in Cirencester 11th -13th April, and it will be THE Transition event of 2008 (pic left is of last year’s conference near Nailsworth). You can read more here.
The latest issue of **Resource Magazine** (“a new perspective on waste”) features Transition Initiative on the front cover. Transition stuff appears twice inside, once in a 2 page article about Transition Initiatives which was rather good, and secondly in The Hot 100, which it somewhat alarmingly introduced as “the definitive list of 2007’s red hot, sizzling chillies”. There, sitting resplendent at Number 6, you’ll find Ben Brangwyn and Rob Hopkins of the Transition Network”. Apparently we got there due to “revolutionising the future of our communities and their resource use”. Not quite sure we can in any way claim any credit for doing anything like that, but it is nice to appear there among many other luminaries. Thanks to Resource Magazine for thinking of us.
On the 16th January I attended a great event in Wadebridge in Cornwall called **The Decline in Oil: are you worried by the rising price of oil?**, which had been organised by Duchy College Rural Business School, the NFU, Climate Friendly Endillion, Transition Penwith and the Soil Association Organic South West. Held in Wadebridge Town Hall, the evening was attended by a crowd of about 140, of whom about 40 were farmers and the rest of whom came from Wadebridge and further afield, from some of Cornwall’s other Transition Initiatives.
