Showing posts with label Transition Towns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transition Towns. Show all posts
28 April 2012

Resilience Hierarchy

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I was delighted to spend Wednesday morning this week at a conference on the subject of Peak Money organised by the Transition Network. Econ...
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28 October 2011

Green Queasing Gathers Support

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Last year Colin Hines and Richard Murphy of Finance for a Future called for money to be into businesses helping us make the transition to a...
21 September 2011

Sunshine State or Resilient Region?

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Those of us who are active in Transition Towns have been disappointed by the government's inability to respond to the impeding food cris...
2 April 2011

If you want to save the species, get political

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Is has become increasingly apparent during the past couple of years there is an inability amongst a wide range of people in politics and med...
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18 September 2010

Transition Barter Habit Spreads up the Severn

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A guest post from Simon Topping of Transition Gloucester. Transition Gloucester recently held its first barter market, except we called it a...
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19 May 2009

Transitional Demand for a Town in Transition

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We have reached the exciting stage of 'no turning back' with our local currency here in Stroud. As we go into shops and pubs making ...
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11 May 2009

No Woe-Worn Creature

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I've mentioned William Cobbett on this blog before, that time with reference to his reflections on the cottage economy . During the ferm...
18 February 2009

The Artists' Way

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It was Lesley Greene, the Green Party councillor in our local well-heeled village of Bisley who first made explicit the importance of art in...
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16 February 2009

A Matter of Life and Death

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I've been relying for some time on evidence of the disastrous decline in life expectancy in the Soviet Union as an indication of the neg...
16 June 2008

Low Carbon High Life

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To compete with phrases such as 'the lean economy', downsizing, voluntary simplicity and so on, a friend in the Transition Stroud gr...
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10 May 2008

From ethical to bioregional consumption . . . and production

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As we move towards a world of less trade we need to be thinking about how we will get hold of the things we really need. We can start making...
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27 February 2008

My Vineyard has been Turned into a Shopping Centre

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One of the most beautiful things encountered in Lisbon during my recent trip was the of range citrus trees growing right in the heart of the...
27 November 2007

Filthy rich

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I have long cherished a vision of how a caring, sustainable economy will replace corporate capitalism. I imagine a hacienda set deep in the ...
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25 October 2007

Clone Towns, Drone Towns and In-the-Zone Towns

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I have been spending the past couple of days undergoing the slightly unpleasant experience of unpicking a long-held prejudice. The specific...
16 October 2007

Transition Towns Make Money!

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In spite of my advanced years I have recently embarked on a new career as the face that launched a thousand community currencies. Well, ok, ...
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