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An August Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition (with loads of videos!)

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:53 +0000

Two months’ worth of round up in quick succession… normal service will be resumed next month. So, let’s start this roundup in Europe, with an interview with Ellen Bermann of Transition Italia, sat on a terrazza somewhere with a rather nice view (understanding Italian an advantage…). Transition in Germany is going on well, with another successful [...]

Further Reflections on ‘The Big Society’

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:22:49 +0000

We have a guest post today, from Jules Peck (see left), originally posted at Citizen Renaissance.com. We have had some initial explorations of this here at Transition Culture already, but Jules offers some useful additional insights into what the Big Society agenda might mean for Transition, and vice versa. Our thanks for allowing us to [...]

An Interview with Chris Bird, author of ‘Local Sustainable Homes’

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:04:22 +0000

In advance of the publication next week of Chris Bird’s Transition Book ‘Local Sustainable Homes’, I spoke to Chris about the book, and about what he set out to achieve in writing it. The book will be available to order here at Transition Culture from next Thursday (the 9th). So Chris, how does ‘Local Sustainable Homes’ [...]

Simultaneous Transition Open Eco-Homes Days!

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:03:01 +0000

Open Eco-Home days are a great way of promoting the idea of green building in all its many manifestations. I have no idea whether the two events were planned to coincide, but two Transition initiatives, Totnes and Stroud, are holding Open Eco-Homes weekends at the same time, the weekend of the 11th-12th September. The Totnes [...]

My Foreword to ‘Local Sustainable Homes’

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:48:11 +0000

Next week sees the publication of the next book in the Transition Books series, ‘Local Sustainable Homes: how to make them happen in your community’ by Chris Bird. More details to follow (including how to order your copy), but as a taster, here is my foreword to the book: In The Pattern of English Building, his [...]

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

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:09:06 +0000

Here is July’s round up, August’s will be along shortly, we are still catching up after the break. We’ll start this with a plea to all you Transition initiatives who have wonderful projects that you’re not telling us about! The plea is to add them to the Transition Network Projects Directory here so everyone else [...]

Why ‘Green Wizards’ Get Us Nowhere New…

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:41:23 +0000

Transition Culture is back! After a month of Cornish beaches, hemp lime plastering, wood store-building, cinema visits, catching up with friends, storytelling festivals, campfires and wrestling with cabbage white caterpillars, normal service is resumed. Nice to see you again, you’re looking well. I’m kicking off again with some reflections on John Michael Greer’s ‘green wizardry’ [...]

Logging Off For the Summer…

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:08:12 +0000

Transition Culture will be closing down for most of August as I stop work and take time out with my family, sit on a beach in Cornwall for a while, visit family, leave my laptop at home, and try not to think about Transition very much (well I can try). The last few days has [...]

Something I didn’t show you before… Low Carbon Communities Challenge…

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:20:59 +0000

As a follow-up to the previous post, here is a short film that was made for the event that announced the 20 winners of the Low Carbon Communities Challenge, which features Transition Streets among the winners.

First Results from Transition Together evaluation

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:12:34 +0000

‘Transition Together’, the street-by-street behaviour change programme developed by Transition Town Totnes and now being piloted in 10 other communities, has just completed analysing the data that has come back from the first 4 groups, comprising 32 households in Totnes. They have completed all 7 of the sessions set out in the workbook, [...]

‘Localism’ or ‘Localisation’? Defining our terms

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:28:47 +0000

There is often confusion within the peak oil/Transition movement about the distinction between the terms ‘localism‘ and ‘localisation‘. On Energy Bulletin yesterday, Richard Moore’s piece, ‘The Emergence of Localism” was actually referring, I would argue, to localisation, not localism. In the UK, in the context of the government’s Big Society agenda, the two definitely mean [...]

Book Review: The Climate Files by Fred Pearce

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:52 +0000

Fred Pearce (2010) The Climate Files: the battle for the truth about global warming. Guardian Books. The saga of the hacked, or leaked, emails from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) has gone on to become known, predictably, as ‘Climategate’. This release of thousands of emails and documents, sceptics argued, proved [...]

Local Food and Relocalisation: a Totnes case study: a section from my forthcoming thesis…

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:51:48 +0000

I am hopefully now only days from handing in the PhD I have been doing, the closing stages of a gruelling marathon. I posted a couple of weeks ago the contents and the layout of the thesis, which is called ‘Localisation and Resilience at the Local Level: the case of Transition Town Totnes (Devon, UK)’. [...]

Jeremy Jackson on How We Wrecked the Oceans

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:44:57 +0000

Here is a staggering TED talk about the state of the Earth’s seas. You might want to watch this sitting down … and to cancel that fish supper…

An Update from Transition Training and Consulting

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:45:05 +0000

Transition Training and Consulting (TTandC) is the part of the Transition Network specifically designed to engage with businesses and organisations in our communities, and deliver transition-related training and consulting services. Run as a social enterprise, any profits go to support the work of the Transition Network. This is the first of [...]