Transition Network (UK) and Transition US Newsletters
This is the latest Transition Network newsletter from the UK. In a reply to this post, I'll post the latest Transition US newsletter.
David
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Transition Network Newsletter July 2009
24th July 2009
CONTENTS EVENTS
The Ark ‘not stupid’ Family Camp
South East Transition Camp
NETWORK NEWS
Energy Resilience Assessment practitioner training
Transition Movement Survey Results
Transition Conference 3.0
Oh lord, Won’t You Buy Me, A Composting Loo
REPORTS & RESEARCH
Skills, Resilience and Awareness?
Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan Update
A Transition Take on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
The (un)Happy Planet Index 2.0
Tourism in Transition?
Waiting For An Allotment
LOCAL INITIATIVE NEWS
Lewes Pound ReLaunched
Lewes Open Eco Houses Weekend
Tooting Catches Carnival Cash
Food For Thought At The Stroud Communiversity
COUNTRY REPORT
Energy descent and transition in Mexico
REVIEWS
Film: Home
Film: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
DVD: The Powerdown Show
Funding Central
Quote of the month
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Not waving but drowning.....
A thousand apologies for the big gap in the newsletter flow. I have a long list of excuses which I can share with you if you are interested? .... no I thought not. Anyway, the good news is that this is a bumper issue with lots for you to read and be inspired by over the summer.
Next week I will be at the Big Green Gathering along with a team from around the UK so if you are coming do come by - we have a full programme of events, talks (including Rob Hopkins), films, books and general chat and on Friday at 3pm join us for The Big Green Transition Meet Up & Tea Party. We have a rebuilt barn as our stand in the Permaculture area. If you have materials on what you are up to we can display them. There are still tickets available...
www.big-green-gathering.com
Mike
Newsletter Editor
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EVENTS
The Ark ‘not stupid’ Family Camp
The lovely Braziers Park near Oxford has teamed up with Transition Town Maidenhead to run a family camp on the weekend of the 14th – 16th August.
South East Transition Camp
25 - 27th September
The second Transition camp will take place on Wapsbourne Farm in Sussex at the end of the Bluebell Railway. Come for a weekend of camp fires, sauna, stars, workshops, kids activites, music and delicious food and of course much more. Register here: http://transitiongathering.ning.com
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NETWORK NEWS
Energy Resilience Assessment practitioner training
Are you interested in helping to bring transition thinking to your local businesses, public sector and voluntary organisations in Scotland, Ireland, Wales or England? Transition Training & Consulting (part of the Transition Network, and incorporating what was previously known as Transition Training) are starting to offer transition-related products and services for businesses and other organisations. These will be delivered by the TT&C Practitioner Network, a community of trainers and consultants who work in a professional, commercial capacity. The first offering aimed specifically at businesses and other organisations is the Energy Resilience Assessment (ERA). Applications are invited for the first 2 day ERA Practitioner Training Course which will be held on 7-8th October, 2009 in Devon. The deadline for applications is 5pm on 7th August, 2009.More details and how to apply here
Transition Movement Survey Results
Despite the phenomenal growth and the wave of positive publicity the Transition movement has received, there has to date been very little empirical research into the development and character of these initiatives, or the impacts they have achieved and the barriers to be overcome. Research just published by the University of East Anglia provides a snapshot of the movement in the UK.
Transition Conference 3.0
With accelerating growth and it’s ideas spreading so fast, it’s easy to forget that the Transition Movement is only a bit over three years old. The third annual Transition conference held for the first time in London had around twice as many participants as last year over three days at the Battersea Arts Centre.
Oh lord, Won’t You Buy Me, A Composting Loo
If a conference doesn't spark the creative juices to flow then what is it for you might ask? Well if that is the test then the 2009 Transition conference passed by inspiring this wonderful version of a wonderful song sung by everyone to round off the event.
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REPORTS & RESEARCH
Skills, Resilience and Awareness?
As part of the Totnes EDAP process, Rob Hopkins has completed a survey of a sample of households in Totnes and Dartington. Questions included attitudes to energy issues, food, transport and how many people are aware of Transition and its relevance to them. Rob relates his initial conclusions:
Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
After many months of work a major piece of groundbreaking research has been published by Transition Totnes called Can Totnes and District Feed Itself: exploring the practicalities of food relocalisation.
Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan Update
After a lengthy process of meetings and public workshops the Transition Totnes (TTT) draft Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) is now available on line for open consultation till the end of August.
A Transition Take on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
Rob Hopkins casts a critical eye over UK government transition plan: After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there are a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled on Wednesday, in a speech in the House of Commons that name checked Transition Towns and which is the boldest national vision for a low carbon society yet seen. Many others have since pitched in with their thoughts, I thought it might be useful here to offer an analysis from a Transition perspective.
The (un)Happy Planet Index 2.0
Believing that good lives don’t have to cost the Earth, The new economics foundation (nef) has updated its Happy Planet Index 2.0. It is a global ranking of the ecological efficiency with which the world’s nations deliver long and happy lives for the people who live there.
Tourism in Transition?
What is tourism’s contribution to sustainable communities. A large and vital industry in so many towns and villages in the UK, tourism’s role within the wider sustainability agenda should not be overlooked. Anna Waddilove reports on a recently completed piece of research examining the potential role of tourism within sustainable communities, with a particular focus on the Transition model.
Waiting For An Allotment
As interest in digging for resilience grows, waiting lists for an allotment has been increasing all over the country. A survey by Transition West Kirby has found that for every 100 council-managed allotment plots in England there are now 49 people on waiting lists.
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LOCAL INITIATIVE NEWS
Lewes Pound ReLaunched
Following the success of the first issue of The Lewes Pound, launched in September 2008, Transition Lewes have relaunched it with higher denomination notes making it easier to use. Adrienne Campbell reports on the launch Do:
Lewes Open Eco Houses Weekend
Transition Lewes Energy Group’s Eco Open House Event in June hosted the BBC Politics show for the South East at local architect Duncan Baker Brown’s house – looking at two very different kinds of houses that need to be put in order!
Tooting Catches Carnival Cash
Transition Tooting in south London together with Project Phakama, a London based youth arts organization working with refugees from around the world, have been awarded a grant towards the cost of a year long twelve step Transition process that will culminate in a large scale carnival on the 2010 summer solstice.
Food For Thought At The Stroud Communiversity
Stroud’s second Communiversity took place over three days of wonderful and sometimes challenging weather. Max Comfort gives us some of the insights into topics covered such as Community Supported Agriculture, Street Allotments and food foraging.
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COUNTRY REPORT
Energy descent and transition in Mexico
Holger Hieronimi reports on rising awareness in Mexico: “In Mexico nothing happens, until it happens.” This is an old proverb here, and it can also easily apply to the current situation. Everything feels tranquilo and smooth, as if it is nothing out of the ordinary. However, as history shows us, once something begins in Mexico, it generally develops rapidly, and can end up being intensely spectacular.
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REVIEWS
Film Review: Home
The popular coffee table book 'The Earth from Above' by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has been made into a stunning film to highlight the damage man is doing to the planet. Called HOME, the film shows images of cities, rain forests, deserts and oceans from above to highlight the damage climate change, development and over exploitation is doing to the planet. With no talking heads. the narrative quickly draws the viewer in to see the story of life on the planet, our role in shaping it and calls to us to work together to write the script of what happens next.It’s too late to be a pessimist.Home
Film Review: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Farmer John is a charming and moving film that charts the story of one farm in Illinois from the 1950s that illustrates well the challenges that have faced all family farms in the decades since the war.
The Powerdown Show DVD
The Cultivate Centre in Dublin have just produced a fabulous resource that all Transition groups will find invaluable, the Powerdown Show. The series of ten 20 minute programmes explores many aspects of the Transition movement in a humorous, accessible and inspiring way. Those interviewed in the series include George Monbiot, Paul Allen, Richard Douthwaite, Megan Quinn, Daniel Lerch, Duncan Stewart, Rob Hopkins and many more.
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Quote Of The Month
“What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That’s what you ought to be doing.” Andrew Harvey www.hopedance.org
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This Newsletter Edited by Mike Grenville
Contact: transitionnetworknews@googlemail.com
+44 (0) 1342 825169
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Please share this Newsletter 'subscribe' link with yor friends:
http://tinyurl.com/transitionnewsletter
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Read this July 2009 newsletter online here.
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If your news is not here it means you havn't sent it in so tap tap tap and write something to share ...
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Next Edition September 2009
Content Submission Deadline 27th August
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Not a subscriber? Click Here To SUBSCRIBE to the monthly Transition Network Newsletter
Newletter Editor: Mike Grenville
Contact: transitionnetworknews@googlemail.com
01342 825169
http://transitionnetworknews.org
Transition Network: 43 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5HN, UK
Email: info@transitionnetwork.org
Tel: +44 (0)5601 531882
www.transitionnetwork.org
David
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Transition Network Newsletter July 2009
24th July 2009
CONTENTS EVENTS
The Ark ‘not stupid’ Family Camp
South East Transition Camp
NETWORK NEWS
Energy Resilience Assessment practitioner training
Transition Movement Survey Results
Transition Conference 3.0
Oh lord, Won’t You Buy Me, A Composting Loo
REPORTS & RESEARCH
Skills, Resilience and Awareness?
Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan Update
A Transition Take on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
The (un)Happy Planet Index 2.0
Tourism in Transition?
Waiting For An Allotment
LOCAL INITIATIVE NEWS
Lewes Pound ReLaunched
Lewes Open Eco Houses Weekend
Tooting Catches Carnival Cash
Food For Thought At The Stroud Communiversity
COUNTRY REPORT
Energy descent and transition in Mexico
REVIEWS
Film: Home
Film: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
DVD: The Powerdown Show
Funding Central
Quote of the month
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Not waving but drowning.....
A thousand apologies for the big gap in the newsletter flow. I have a long list of excuses which I can share with you if you are interested? .... no I thought not. Anyway, the good news is that this is a bumper issue with lots for you to read and be inspired by over the summer.
Next week I will be at the Big Green Gathering along with a team from around the UK so if you are coming do come by - we have a full programme of events, talks (including Rob Hopkins), films, books and general chat and on Friday at 3pm join us for The Big Green Transition Meet Up & Tea Party. We have a rebuilt barn as our stand in the Permaculture area. If you have materials on what you are up to we can display them. There are still tickets available...
www.big-green-gathering.com
Mike
Newsletter Editor
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EVENTS
The Ark ‘not stupid’ Family Camp
The lovely Braziers Park near Oxford has teamed up with Transition Town Maidenhead to run a family camp on the weekend of the 14th – 16th August.
South East Transition Camp
25 - 27th September
The second Transition camp will take place on Wapsbourne Farm in Sussex at the end of the Bluebell Railway. Come for a weekend of camp fires, sauna, stars, workshops, kids activites, music and delicious food and of course much more. Register here: http://transitiongathering.ning.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NETWORK NEWS
Energy Resilience Assessment practitioner training
Are you interested in helping to bring transition thinking to your local businesses, public sector and voluntary organisations in Scotland, Ireland, Wales or England? Transition Training & Consulting (part of the Transition Network, and incorporating what was previously known as Transition Training) are starting to offer transition-related products and services for businesses and other organisations. These will be delivered by the TT&C Practitioner Network, a community of trainers and consultants who work in a professional, commercial capacity. The first offering aimed specifically at businesses and other organisations is the Energy Resilience Assessment (ERA). Applications are invited for the first 2 day ERA Practitioner Training Course which will be held on 7-8th October, 2009 in Devon. The deadline for applications is 5pm on 7th August, 2009.More details and how to apply here
Transition Movement Survey Results
Despite the phenomenal growth and the wave of positive publicity the Transition movement has received, there has to date been very little empirical research into the development and character of these initiatives, or the impacts they have achieved and the barriers to be overcome. Research just published by the University of East Anglia provides a snapshot of the movement in the UK.
Transition Conference 3.0
With accelerating growth and it’s ideas spreading so fast, it’s easy to forget that the Transition Movement is only a bit over three years old. The third annual Transition conference held for the first time in London had around twice as many participants as last year over three days at the Battersea Arts Centre.
Oh lord, Won’t You Buy Me, A Composting Loo
If a conference doesn't spark the creative juices to flow then what is it for you might ask? Well if that is the test then the 2009 Transition conference passed by inspiring this wonderful version of a wonderful song sung by everyone to round off the event.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REPORTS & RESEARCH
Skills, Resilience and Awareness?
As part of the Totnes EDAP process, Rob Hopkins has completed a survey of a sample of households in Totnes and Dartington. Questions included attitudes to energy issues, food, transport and how many people are aware of Transition and its relevance to them. Rob relates his initial conclusions:
Can Totnes and District Feed Itself?
After many months of work a major piece of groundbreaking research has been published by Transition Totnes called Can Totnes and District Feed Itself: exploring the practicalities of food relocalisation.
Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan Update
After a lengthy process of meetings and public workshops the Transition Totnes (TTT) draft Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) is now available on line for open consultation till the end of August.
A Transition Take on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
Rob Hopkins casts a critical eye over UK government transition plan: After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there are a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled on Wednesday, in a speech in the House of Commons that name checked Transition Towns and which is the boldest national vision for a low carbon society yet seen. Many others have since pitched in with their thoughts, I thought it might be useful here to offer an analysis from a Transition perspective.
The (un)Happy Planet Index 2.0
Believing that good lives don’t have to cost the Earth, The new economics foundation (nef) has updated its Happy Planet Index 2.0. It is a global ranking of the ecological efficiency with which the world’s nations deliver long and happy lives for the people who live there.
Tourism in Transition?
What is tourism’s contribution to sustainable communities. A large and vital industry in so many towns and villages in the UK, tourism’s role within the wider sustainability agenda should not be overlooked. Anna Waddilove reports on a recently completed piece of research examining the potential role of tourism within sustainable communities, with a particular focus on the Transition model.
Waiting For An Allotment
As interest in digging for resilience grows, waiting lists for an allotment has been increasing all over the country. A survey by Transition West Kirby has found that for every 100 council-managed allotment plots in England there are now 49 people on waiting lists.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LOCAL INITIATIVE NEWS
Lewes Pound ReLaunched
Following the success of the first issue of The Lewes Pound, launched in September 2008, Transition Lewes have relaunched it with higher denomination notes making it easier to use. Adrienne Campbell reports on the launch Do:
Lewes Open Eco Houses Weekend
Transition Lewes Energy Group’s Eco Open House Event in June hosted the BBC Politics show for the South East at local architect Duncan Baker Brown’s house – looking at two very different kinds of houses that need to be put in order!
Tooting Catches Carnival Cash
Transition Tooting in south London together with Project Phakama, a London based youth arts organization working with refugees from around the world, have been awarded a grant towards the cost of a year long twelve step Transition process that will culminate in a large scale carnival on the 2010 summer solstice.
Food For Thought At The Stroud Communiversity
Stroud’s second Communiversity took place over three days of wonderful and sometimes challenging weather. Max Comfort gives us some of the insights into topics covered such as Community Supported Agriculture, Street Allotments and food foraging.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
COUNTRY REPORT
Energy descent and transition in Mexico
Holger Hieronimi reports on rising awareness in Mexico: “In Mexico nothing happens, until it happens.” This is an old proverb here, and it can also easily apply to the current situation. Everything feels tranquilo and smooth, as if it is nothing out of the ordinary. However, as history shows us, once something begins in Mexico, it generally develops rapidly, and can end up being intensely spectacular.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REVIEWS
Film Review: Home
The popular coffee table book 'The Earth from Above' by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has been made into a stunning film to highlight the damage man is doing to the planet. Called HOME, the film shows images of cities, rain forests, deserts and oceans from above to highlight the damage climate change, development and over exploitation is doing to the planet. With no talking heads. the narrative quickly draws the viewer in to see the story of life on the planet, our role in shaping it and calls to us to work together to write the script of what happens next.It’s too late to be a pessimist.Home
Film Review: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Farmer John is a charming and moving film that charts the story of one farm in Illinois from the 1950s that illustrates well the challenges that have faced all family farms in the decades since the war.
The Powerdown Show DVD
The Cultivate Centre in Dublin have just produced a fabulous resource that all Transition groups will find invaluable, the Powerdown Show. The series of ten 20 minute programmes explores many aspects of the Transition movement in a humorous, accessible and inspiring way. Those interviewed in the series include George Monbiot, Paul Allen, Richard Douthwaite, Megan Quinn, Daniel Lerch, Duncan Stewart, Rob Hopkins and many more.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Quote Of The Month
“What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That’s what you ought to be doing.” Andrew Harvey www.hopedance.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This Newsletter Edited by Mike Grenville
Contact: transitionnetworknews@googlemail.com
+44 (0) 1342 825169
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please share this Newsletter 'subscribe' link with yor friends:
http://tinyurl.com/transitionnewsletter
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Read this July 2009 newsletter online here.
~*~*~
If your news is not here it means you havn't sent it in so tap tap tap and write something to share ...
~*~*~
Next Edition September 2009
Content Submission Deadline 27th August
~*~*~
Not a subscriber? Click Here To SUBSCRIBE to the monthly Transition Network Newsletter
Newletter Editor: Mike Grenville
Contact: transitionnetworknews@googlemail.com
01342 825169
http://transitionnetworknews.org
Transition Network: 43 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5HN, UK
Email: info@transitionnetwork.org
Tel: +44 (0)5601 531882
www.transitionnetwork.org
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From the Transition US folks, forwarding a note from the Transition UK folks...
David
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Hello Transition Initiatives,
Ben Brangwyn of the Transition Network in the UK just sent out this inspirational update of all the new Transition Initiatives that are forming world-wide, and we wanted to share the good news with all of you!
Cheers! from all of us at Transition US!
PS You can forward this to the other members of your Initiating Group by sending this email as an attachment, using the forwarding button on the bottom of this email or by copying and pasting this into another email!
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Hi All ~
To all of you - all around the world! - thanks so much for strengthening our growing network with your community initiative. This new set of "official" initiatives is truly wonderful - so many great people, somuch excellent work already underway. We're constantly amazed at the people who are stepping up into the core groups - reading through the biographies is a truly humbling - and inspiring - experience. Y'know, mebbe we really are going to succeed in creating this ambitious future we've all chosen to pursue.
And it's great to see how you're addressing all the items in the checklist - congrats on getting so far so quickly.
This email has only gone to the key contacts for each community, so please forward this on to the others in your initiating groups and express our thanks for their sterling and essential efforts.
Latest "official" Transition Initiatives:
-Australia
Brisbane East, QLD
-Canada
Nelson, BC
-England
Andover
Finsbury Park, London
Liskeard
-US (announced viaTransition US)
Hardwick Area, VT, USA
Whidbey, WA, USA
Our next steps
We have some ambitious and cunning plans to combine technology and process to help groups share information more effectively - crucial if we're to scale up this transition dramatically - so expect some announcements in the coming months.
Your next steps
You're now on all the lists on our website and you'll be in the next update of the various documents that list the "official" initiatives.
Now would be a good time to update your marker on the googlemaps (linked here: http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/Mulling). The instructions are on the mulling page but with just one variation - change your blue marker to green with a black dot. Please add the email address of your primary contact to the marker so that people can get in contact with you. If this sounds like technobabble, persevere until your migraine becomes unbearable, then ask one of the webgeeks in your group to do it for you.
I expect you'll be moving into the next phases of your initiative. Keep an eye on the Primer: http://transitionnetwork.org/Primer/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf for guidance on this, and of course Rob's book and the Transition Timeline that we recently published. The forums: http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/Forum look like they're getting more postings, so please use them liberally. And don't forget, it's your network, so if you have some useful ideas or guidance, or think we're headed in the wrong direction with anything, make sure you let us know.
We'll soon be releasing the first of our Transition Guides - the transition guide to food - and the transition guide to cities is also underway. Keep an eye out for them. It would also be worth encouraging your groups to sign up to the Transition Network newsletters as well here: http://tinyurl.com/transitionnewsletter.
Thanks again for stepping up to this mighty challenge - we're feeling very inspired by you all.
Best regards from us all - Rob, Ben, the trustees of Transition Network and everyone else involved in this crazy wonderful journey.
Ben.
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Transition Network - tackling peak oil and climate change, together
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Ben Brangwyn
Transition Network: co-founder
website: http://transitionnetwork.org
email: benbrangwyn@transitionnetwork.org
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