10th December 2009
CONTENTS
NEWS
NETWORK
NEWS
RESEARCH
VIDEOS
REGIONAL REPORTS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Quote of the month
NEWS
‘Transition News’ Section In Positive
News
Positive News has teamed up with Transition
Network News to feature a new section dedicated to news from
the Transition movement. The just-published winter edition
includes articles from Transition Initiatives in Forest Row,
Brixton, Edinburgh plus reviews of the In-Transition Movie and
Local Food book.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/transition-news-section-in-positive-news/
Green Community Hero Award
The 2009
Energy Saving Trust/Guardian ‘Green Community Hero’ award has
been awarded to Rob Hopkins.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/green-community-hero-award/
NETWORK NEWS
Diversity Project Coordinator
A new
post has opened up with the Transition Network. The role of
the Diversity Project Coordinator will be to ‘Develop models
and practices to enable the transition movement to
successfully engage across culture, race, faith and income
groups.’
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/diversity-project-coordinator/
Web Project Update
Ed Mitchell,
Transition Network: Web Co-ordinator explains what they are up
to with the web platform, a high level view of the services it
supports , and an idea of times for everyone.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/web-project-update/
Transition Network at Copenhagen People’s
Summit
A number of people are travelling (by land
and sea, of course!) from Totnes to Copenhagen to be part of
the People’s Climate Summit. While the world leaders make
international agreements (or don’t) many thousands of people
from around the world who are working to tackle climate change
at a grass roots level will be meeting in the centre of
Copenhagen.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/transition-network-at-copenhagen-peoples-summit/
RESEARCH
Free Guide to Setting Up Local
Currencies
Transition Network is delighted to be
able to present the first in an occasional series of pdf only
‘How to’ guides: THE LEWES POUND A Transition Network ‘How To’
Guide.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/free-guide-to-setting-up-local-currencies/
Who Are The Transitioners?
In spite of
its rapid growth and plentiful positive publicity, there have
until now been no studies looking at who is getting involved
and what their motivations are. Dr Gill Seyfang at the School
of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia has
conducted an in-depth membership survey of Transition Norwich
earlier this year and published the results.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/who-are-transitioners/
VIDEOS
In Transition 1.0 DVD is Now Available On DVD and
Online
‘In Transition’ is the first detailed film
about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it
best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The
Transition movement is about communities around the world
responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity,
imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their
local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions
focused, viral and fun.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/in-transition-1-0-dvd-is-now-available/
Rob Hopkins Ted Video
Back in July Rob
Hopkins gave a talk at TED and the video is now online.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/rob-hopkins-ted-video/
Vandana Shiva on Transition
Initiatives
While Vandana Shiva was in Berlin
recently promoting her book ‘Soil Not Oil’, Andreas Teuchert
and Thomas Finger of Transition Berlin, who were filming the
event, spontaneously asked her for her thoughts on what the
Transition Towns movement could do that is of real use for
people in the global south.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/vandana-shiva-on-transition-initiatives/
TT On Film
More and more Transition
initiatives are making films about what they are up to. Here
is a collection of Transiton related films on YouTube.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/ti-on-film/
REGIONAL REPORTS
Sweden in Transition
Naresh Giangrande
recently returned from a Transition Training tour of Sweden,
here is a report about his trip.
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/sweden-in-transition/
Gathering in the East
In mid November
Transition East Support Group held its Second Regional
Gathering in Norfolk. An insightful document that reviews the
groups in the region and looks at some of the common problems
they are running into has been published that they describe as
‘everything you wanted to know about Transition but were too
correct to ask.’
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/gathering-in-the-east/
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Italy Gets the Handbook and A Local Authority Gets
It
Hot on the heels of the publication of an
Italian version of the Transition Handbook, a local authority
has shown what it looks like when a they REALLY Get
Transition!
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/italy-gets-the-handbook-and-a-local-authority-gets-it/
Working With Councils
The Community
Development Foundation have produced a handy little nuts and
bolts explanation of how local authorities in the UK work.
Called Green Up!, it provides community groups with everything
they need to work productively with their councils on
environment and sustainability issues. It explains how
community groups can use everything from Local Area Agreements
to Sustainable Community Strategies to get their work
supported. The guide also explains all the words and
vocabulary commonly used by councils, so local groups can
clearly understand ‘council speak’
http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/working-with-councils/
Quote of the Month
"Many of us, particularly in the developed world, will
have to change our lifestyles. The era of flights that cost
less than the taxi ride to the airport is drawing to a close.
We will have to shop, eat and travel more intelligently. We
will have to pay more for our energy, and use less of it. But
the shift to a low-carbon society holds out the prospect of
more opportunity than sacrifice."
Editorial published by 56 newspapers around the
world in 20 languages. 7th December 2009
This Newsletter Edited by Mike Grenville from Transition Forest Row
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