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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.
Last week a friend sent me a stunning, thinking-shifting powerpoint by Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre’s Energy Programme entitled Reframing Climate Change: from long-term targets to emission pathways. If you want a sobering and, frankly, deeply depressing, update on the implications of the latest climate science, this is as good a place to start as any. It looks at the scale of the year-on-year emissions that we need to make, and it is quite something.
I often liken Transition to a mychorrhizal fungi that innoculates the ‘soil’, running all over the place, and leaves one very surprised at where it pops up as mushrooms. I thought you might find it useful to just have a short round up of some of the latest ‘fruitings’. We start with something I mentioned last week, Ed Milliband’s talk at the Environment Agency conference, which is now online, before moving onto a smorgasbord of Transition stuff…
Last year’s Soil Association conference offered delegates a deep immersion in the peak oil/Transition debates, and was, for many, a seminal experience. This year’s took the discussions deeper and offered delegates an update on progress since and a re-energiser in terms of the scale of the work needed to be done for food and farming to truly be ‘in Transition’. You can hear podcasts from the whole conference here and download the pdf of the conference programme here.
The first day of the Transition Cities Conference in Nottingham was a fascinating coming together of nearly 150 people from across the UK (as well as Sydney, Melbourne, Paris and Gent in Belgium), all hosted in the Nottingham Arena, supported by Nottingham City Council. A few of us drove up from Totnes, leaving at 5am, and delays caused by an accident involving a huge Tic Tac lorry, meant we arrived with 10 minutes to spare before the start at 10am.
At 3am GMT and at 7 PM Oacifi Standard Time, today (Friday), the Sandpoint Transition Initiative have their Great Unleashing, which will be broadcast live online (see the box below). This is technologically impressive stuff (at least it is for a Luddite like me). I’ll be tucked up in bed, but hopefully we’ll be able to see it later too. Wishing STI all the very best with their Unleashing, I’m sure it’ll be a wondeful evening.
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Last week a friend sent me a stunning, thinking-shifting powerpoint by Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre’s Energy Programme entitled Reframing Climate Change: from long-term targets to emission pathways. If you want a sobering and, frankly, deeply depressing, update on the implications of the latest climate science, this is as good a place to start as any. It looks at the scale of the year-on-year emissions that we need to make, and it is quite something. 
