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Take part in the 350 Home and Garden Challenge
Transition US is planning the mega ‘350 home and garden challenge’ project, which, if you are in the US, we keenly recommend you take part in.
It sounds great:
On a single weekend, May 14th & 15th, thousands of landscapes and homes will be transformed, retrofitted and revitalized as part
US: Citizens’ peak oil report accepted by council
Nevada City has just accepted a citizen-triggered Peak Oil report
The adminstrations in several cities in the US have worked with local citizens to produce oil vulnerability reports. In the UK, Bristol has seen a similar success.
The Nevada press release follows…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nevada City Energy Solutions Task
Being Shortlisted for Climate Week Award
Being shortlisted for a Climate Week award – some brief thoughts on global corporations, competitive awards and leadership from Transition Network Chairman Pete Lipman.
I’ve been nominated and then shortlisted for an “inspiring leader” award in Climate Week . This led to discussion at Transition Network about involvement in Climate Week
Somerset Transition reversal raises questions over localism agenda
You win some, you lose some. In July 2008, Somerset County Council, then a Liberal Democrat-controlled council, passed a resolution supporting its local Transition initiatives. (This is copied from Transition Culture). It was much lauded as a visionary piece of policy-making, a council noting the vibrant activity of Transition groups
The movie “Farm for the Future” now becomes a way of life
Farm for the Future is one of the most impactful movies I’ve seen about our ecological crises – it brought home the converging problems of peak oil and climate change and the almost unthinkable effects that they might have on food production in a very visceral way.
The film makers,
Reverend Billy’s Church of Stop Shopping coming to Europe and UK, July-2011
Reverend Billy and his advanced, some might say “quirky”, form of social engagement is visiting Europe in July 2011.
Here’s the missive from the Rev:
We are coming to Germany and England with the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir during the summer of 2011. We come as emissaries