Communities, Councils and a Low Carbon Future, by Alexis Rowell came out at the same time as another Transition Books title on buildings. I didn’t want to read both together and this one sounded like the less interesting of the two, so it’s been languishing on the shelf. Predictably, I now wish I’d got to […]
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Totally Locally
This week I came across Totally Locally, a campaign to encourage local shopping. It caught my attention, as it looks like a great way for Transition Town initiatives and other local community groups to promote local business. The campaign is essentially an off-the-shelf marketing kit, made available free of charge. Totally Locally provide the brand […]
The Festival of Transition
Today sees the start of the Festival of Transition, “an invitation to think positively about how our lives could change as we adapt to the end of cheap fossil fuels, address the threat of runaway climate change and fix our broken financial system.” The organisers share my belief that ‘there is no alternative’ is a […]
Japan’s post-Fukushima energy descent
Something rather remarkable has happened in Japan in the last year. As we all know, Japan’s East coast was hit by a devastating tsunami in March 2011. Several towns and cities were inundated, over 15,000 people died, and the world looked on as the news story morphed from earthquake to nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. The […]
There’s no tomorrow
The Post Carbon Institute has been responsible for a couple of great viral videos recently. Who killed economic growth? is a pithy introduction to post growth arguments, and 300 years fossil fuels in 300 seconds has now been watched over a million times on Youtube. Perhaps emboldened by the success of the latter, PCI has gone […]
Spain re-discovers the Peseta, and the healthy diversity of currency
In 2002, Spain introduced the Euro, and the Peseta was slowly phased out. However, the central bank didn’t set a deadline for people to redeem their old currency. If you find a jar of old coins lying around, you can still cash them in for Euros. That means there’s still a lot of money out […]
Top ten social documentary cliches
I’ve seen quite a few social documentaries in my time. We show awareness raising films in Transition Towns, and there are some really great, thought-provoking, well crafted documentaries out there. And then there are some very bad ones. Digital video production has made film-making possible (if not advisable, or profitable) for almost anyone. But making […]
In Transition 2.0
You’ve all seen In Transition 1.0, the Transition Towns movie, right? I should hope so. You may have noticed the 1.0, and that’s because there was no way the first documentary could claim to have told a definitive story, especially so early in the history of the movement. More iterations of the film were to […]
Build your own industrial civilization
Question: Can you guess what these are? Answer: they are the 50 industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with all the comforts of modern life. They include a tractor, a cement mixer, a welding machine, a bakery oven and a heat exchanger. And you can build them all yourself. Or at least, that’s […]
The Schumacher legacy
On monday I posted a short biography of E F Schumacher. Today I want to look at what happened to his ideas, and how his thinking has continued to evolve. Schumacher’s work did not end with his death. It has carried on through numerous organisations, societies and individuals, some directly inspired by him, others incorporating […]
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