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Related to which, here is a rather nice cartoon from ExtraEthical.com.

I often liken breaking our collective and individual addiction to oil as being like giving up any other addiction.  My family has now passed its fifth month without a car, and the process of getting used to life with no car has been very similar to giving up drinking or ...

A few days before Christmas in Totnes, the monthly Wondermentalist Cabaret shifted its poetic gaze towards Transition.... host and local poet-in-residence Matt Harvey has been making a short film for the BBC about Transition, and so part of the show featured his thoughts on it for the programme.  You can ...

Since it was launched, Transition Culture has grown its readership rapidly. Until recently it was hosted by the wonderful Oxford-based LumpyLemon, but in the weeks running up to Christmas, the scale of the traffic we have been generating led to their server crashing on several occasions (as you may ...

When viewed with detatchment, there is something profoundly sad about the annual deeply stressful and financially impoverishing orgy of Christmas consumerism, as distinct from the far more enjoyable aspect of it, the time at home, time off work, seeing friends and family and so on. My thinking this means that ...

A Tale of Two Cities... well three actually.... The first was NYC. We had a quiet night at The Bridge Winery in Brooklyn. Several people turned up, young mostly, and turned on -a good group. We had a small conversation about TTs; they listened and asked good questions and we had ...

It's that time of year when the laptop gets turned off, put in the drawer and when family, friends and not getting up at 6.45am to write Transition Culture posts come to the fore.  Thank you so much for all your support, comments and hard work during 2008, the year ...

This fantastic image and the following text come from the Permaculture Principles calendar; Jim Walsh and his giant schnauzer Tom doing an easy 40 km/hr. "Tom and I have reached a maximum recorded speed of 64.8k/hr in this cart.  On a cool day he has pulled me around for 6 hours ...

A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business.  It was just an initial exploration, but there was a great deal of useful stuff in it, and prompted by an article by Stefan Geyer in the latest ...

I have two requests to throw out today and see if anyone out there can help.  I'll go into more detail below, but in essence, Transition Network is looking for somewhere to host the 2009 Transition Conference and needs your suggestions, and Transition Town Totnes is working on its Energy ...

I love my town.  Its not something we say a great deal in England.  In the US, people write songs about their towns and cities (Box Elder MO, Put Your Hands Up for Detroit, New York, New York...), as well as about the roads that join them together (Highway 61), ...

The notes from the Transition Cities conference are all now up, you can read them here.  One of the highlights for me was Shilpa Shah's workshop, on Diversity.  About 25 people attended, and what follows are the notes I took during it.  At the workshop Shilpa gave out a really ...

I once heard a comedian (I don't remember who) say "we're told we have to think about future generations... what have future generations ever done for us?"  Although I try to dedicate as much of my time as possible to helping leave this planet in a better place than it ...

Our trip to Wales was a success. We filmed Isabel Lovelock from Transition Llandeilo planting an orchard at the local primary school. The kids all got involved but I’m not sure they learned much about how to plant the trees. It was a bit of a photo ...

That's the country, not the pneumatically-enhanced uber-celebrity.  Here is an article from JO, an English language Jordanian magazine, which looks at what the Transition concept might have to offer in a Jordian context.  Also contains some great graphics....

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 ...

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'. ...

Here is an interesting clip from the Netherlands... I have no idea what any of them are talking about, not being a native speaker myself, but maybe some of you are....

While editing the Transition Timeline (coming soon), Shaun and I came up with the following from a section looking at transportation in 2018. “In addition, those who tried to flaunt wealth by driving a car everywhere and buying showy possessions increasingly became seen at best as rather selfish and ...

Energy Descent Plans... The story so far Presented by Rob Hopkins, John Green & Lucy Neal #1. Rob Hopkins – Transition Town Totnes The Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) can be considered a community's Plan B, developed by the community itself and based on more realistic assumptions than what local authorities, businesses and ...