31 posts tagged energy descent

This principle reminds us of the need to gather and save natural energy for our long-term needs in a time of energy descent. Our unprecedented wealth is largely due to our profligate consumption of earth’s natural resources, especially fossil fuels. We have been squandering our wealth, forgetting that — like all things — it is finite.

The Transition Handbook Rob Hopkins. Green Books 2008, Paperback, 224 pages, £12.95 I really can’t recommend this book highly enough, but if you need more convincing… “a must-read labelled, ‘immediate’ “ - Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid “The Transition Handbook will come

The Transition Handbook Rob Hopkins. Green Books 2008, Paperback, 224 pages, £12.95 I really can’t recommend this book highly enough, but if you need more convincing… “a must-read labelled, ‘immediate’ “ - Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid “The Transition Handbook will come

We had an excellent small group discussion last night with Alastair Lough and Pat Proulx who are recently returned from Maine after attending Transition Training in Totnes, UK. The Transition Movment is picking up speed as a positive approach to creating a post-carbon reality from the ground up. 

Exclusive to Transition Culture: An Interview with Joanna Macy On the final day of the Positive Energy conference, I took some time out with Joanna to do a short interview for Transition Culture. She has kindly gone through this transcript and corrected any mistakes I have made, so I hope it represents an accurate record.

My Closing Address to the 2008 Transition Network Conference At the end of the Transition Network conference, I was asked to give a closing address to pull the strands of the weekend together. Adrienne Campbell very kindly typed it up, and so here it is, and thanks again to Mike Grenville for the photos.

Transition Network Conference, Day 1 200 people from across the UK, as well as from Australia, the US, Sweden, Japan, Ireland and France gathered together near Cirencester for the second Transition Network conference, an uplifting and inspiring day bringing together of the experience and stories of those catalysing Transition projects in their very diverse cultures and settings.

I just found an interesting article on current events in India, called “From Champaram To Rajghat : A Pilgrimage To Save Seeds, The Land And Our Farmers“, by Vandana Shiva. In it, she compares the current corporate practice of patenting seeds and forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year instead

12 Tools for Transition: No.11. How to Run a Fishbowl Discussion Use this tool when you want to have a deep exploration of an issue. It allows an open forum while keeping a focused discussion. Use this for groups of minimum 10 – maybe 100, perhaps even more. The question is important – keep it open, non-judgemental and non-directive.

Ok, so i’m totally new at this whole garden thing in practice, but i’m currently neck-deep in the search for a new house to live in, and my one big condition is that i have to have room in the yard for a garden. This is sorta phase one of the plan: actually get some dirt ;).