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My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’
A couple of weeks ago I spoke at TedxExeter, a fantastic occasion with many great speakers (have a look at their website as more and more of the films from the day go online). I spoke for the first...
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An April Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
Let’s start with something I came across on YouTube, the caption just says “We are students from 4th of ESO and we are in a project about Transition Towns. Hope you like it :) !” Turns out it is the...
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The transcript of my TEDxExeter talk
I posted the video of this a couple of weeks ago, but I am deeply grateful to Vanessa Kroll who has transcribed it, in case such a thing would be of interest/use to anyone. Here it is: “Hello. I...
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Ten of the best books in the (rather large) pile by my bedside
Here is a list of the books I am working my way through at the moment or have recently finished, I hope they might point you to some recently published books you may find useful and interesting. So,...
View ArticleTransition in Brixton appears on Al Jazeera
Here is a great piece from Al Jazeera about various Transition things underway in Brixton: the Brixton Pound, Brixton Energy and the Edible Bus Stop project. One of the best TV pieces about Transition...
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A July/August Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
This month’s round up covers two months, because this time last month half of the team that lovingly create these round ups was away when they should have been producing this. As a result it’s a bit...
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A write-up of the 2012 Transition Network conference. The best yet.
Transition folks from around the world gathered last weekend at Battersea Arts Centre for the 6th annual Transition Network conference. In a week when the Arctic ice reached its smallest ever extent,...
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A September Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
Let’s start this month’s round up in Australia. Transition Sydney also recently held an event about social enterprise and reviving local economies through resilience-building, entitled the ‘Living...
View ArticleAn lunchtime on-line discussion on ‘Innovating for Social Change’
The other day I participated in an online seminar/discussion thing, in Google Hangout (which is great), hosted by Mick Fealty and the Building Change Trust, under the title of ‘Innovating for Social...
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From today’s Guardian Sustainable Business section: ‘Community action...
In his recent piece on climate change on the network, Jo Confino wrote of the dark place he found himself in after a few weeks immersed in the latest news on sustainability – his climate change ”dark...
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A November Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
Let’s start this month’s bumper round-up (which contains some of the finest short films about Transition among many many other things) with the news that Transition Network has just been named as the...
View ArticleWelcome back, and a vision for 2013
Welcome back to Transition Culture for 2013. It is a year fraught with dangers yet also rich with possibilities. I hope that Transition Network, and this blog, and all the other resources out there...
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A December Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
December is one of the quieter times for Transition initiatives, but even so, we’ve quite a packed December round-up for you. We start, seasonally, with two Winterfests, a seasonal opportunity to...
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Three days in Germany
I am just back from 3 days in Germany, and great fun it was too. I spoke on Wednesday evening in Bonn at an event organised by Bonn im Wandel (Bonn in Transition) at the University there, and on...
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A March Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
Pic courtesy of NewsShopper.co.uk. We’ll start this month’s Round up in Crystal Palace in London, and news of the ‘Palace Pint’. Crystal Palace Transition Town started the initiative inspire by the...
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The new economic frontier is a chance for community resilience
I spoke at the Hay Festival last week, a very well-attended and enjoyable session. Every day during the Festival, the Daily Telegraph produces ‘The Hayley Telegraph’, a free magazine given away at...
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A May Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
We’ll start this month’s round up in South Africa. We loved this video from German TV about Transition Town Greyton, and the work they are doing. Wonderful stuff. Altogether now: “Stuff your...
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Sir Quentin Blake and the power of illustration
Transition Voices I was at Hay Festival last week and had the pleasure of spending an hour listening to one of my great heroes, the illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake. His lecture was entitled In and out...
View ArticleWebinar: ‘Local Economic Blueprints: pioneering or pointless?’
Transition Voices A couple of weeks ago, Transition Network and Resilience.org held a webinar that looked at Local Economic Blueprints. I chaired it, and it featured Tony Greenham, Nigel Jump and...
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The new economic frontier is a chance for community resilience
Transition Voices I spoke at the Hay Festival last week, a very well-attended and enjoyable session. Every day during the Festival, the Daily Telegraph produces ‘The Hayley Telegraph’, a free...
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