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12 Nov 2007
Working with Transition Town Totnes, one so often sees the dilemma facing journalists, especially those from national newspapers, when covering TTT or events to do with the town. Do they go for the ‘Totnes woo-woo’ angle, emphasising the town’s alternative aspects, or do they resist that and look for what is actually happening and what is interesting about that? In the main, reporters have managed to resist, but in this weekend’s Telegraph, their property reporter just couldn’t quite help himself. The headline “Wizards of the Wacky West”, it would be fair to say, didn’t bode well. The article, which actually gave TTT some pretty fair(ish) coverage, dripped with references to Totnes having “more vegetarians per square yard than a Hindu tofu festival” and shops “peddlling stones and crystals and a Friday market that smells of marijuana and incense”. Groan.
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7 Nov 2007
Possibly the biggest peak oil/climate change/Transition event yet to take place in the UK happens in Bristol in a couple of weeks. Transition Bristol’s **Big Event** brings together some amazing speakers for a busy day of talks, workshops and films all exploring the concept of Transition in the urban context. Speakers will include Richard Heinberg, David Strahan, Jeremy Leggett and Dr. Chris Johnstone. Transition Bristol began about a year ago, and this will be their highest profile event yet, and is a day not to be missed. Their press release goes as follows
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6 Nov 2007
Lists of things you can do to ‘save the planet’ often get stuck at lightbulb changing and thermostat twiddling, failing to engage with the deeper challenges. The Environment Agency brought together 25 leading thinkers in the green movement, including Tony Juniper, Jonathan Porritt and David Boyle, and asked them for their 50 things that will save the planet. The list is deep and rich, and Transition Towns appear in No.8, and the Totnes Pound gets an honorary mention in No.6. Although their enthusiasm for importing solar panels from China and for carbon capture and storage might not get the thumbs up from this end, it is still a very enlightening read. You can see the document here.
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5 Nov 2007
This month’s Ecologist magazine is one of the best editions yet. It contains a superb piece called ‘Power On’ which offers a refreshingly frank assessment of the UK’s energy situation in the light of peak oil and climate change which is essential reading (I’ll link to it when an online version becomes available). It also has a long piece about Transition Initiatives which presents the whole approach in a very positive way. The Ecologist have kindly given us permission to reproduce this article below;
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2 Nov 2007
I wrote a while ago about the Prince of Wales’ Food and Farming Summer School which I taught on during the summer. It was a fascinating event, bringing together a wide range of people to explore the question “what is sustainable food?” The National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs sent two members along for the event, and it was interesting to read recently an article about the Summer School by Gloucestershire dairy farmer and YFC member Rob Harrison, in which he reflects on the impact the event, and in particular the session on peak oil and Transition Initiatives had on him.
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Working with Transition Town Totnes, one so often sees the dilemma facing journalists, especially those from national newspapers, when covering TTT or events to do with the town. Do they go for the ‘Totnes woo-woo’ angle, emphasising the town’s alternative aspects, or do they resist that and look for what is actually happening and what is interesting about that? In the main, reporters have managed to resist, but in this weekend’s Telegraph, their property reporter just couldn’t quite help himself. The headline “Wizards of the Wacky West”, it would be fair to say, didn’t bode well. The article, which actually gave TTT some pretty fair(ish) coverage, dripped with references to Totnes having “more vegetarians per square yard than a Hindu tofu festival” and shops “peddlling stones and crystals and a Friday market that smells of marijuana and incense”. Groan.
