> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # September 2011 Transition Network Newsletter - URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/september-2011-transition-network-newsletter/ - Published: 2011-09-01T23:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-02-11T10:44:00.000Z - Author: Transition Network international - Tags: #News, #Import 2026-03-17 **September 2011 Transition Network Newsletter** **CONTENTS** **EXPLORING THE TRANSITION WORLD** \~ August Round-ups \~ Travels visiting Transition Initiatives \~ Transition Fujino — Prospects for a better future \~ Cycling to raise money for Transition and Sustrans **THINKING ALOUD** \~ Coming Round The Dark Mountain \~ Why do so many people believe in the fantasy of infinite growth on a finite planet? \~ Five bummer problems that make societies collapse \~ A Different Kind of Tea Party \~ Why I Don’t Read Like I Used To \~ Economic Resilience \~ Panic on the streets of London \~ A Discussion on Resilience **NETWORK TRAINING** \~ New Training section on the website \~ Transition Training survey: the results \~ A follow on to the 2 day course: Transition;Thrive \~ Your thoughts needed: Where does equality fit in Transition? **PROJECTS** \~ Linen Project \~ Project sharing engine funding bid **RESOURCES** \~ Exploring Community Resilience \~ The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality \~ German military analysis of peak oil now available **COMING UP** \~ Transition Companion \~ Exploring the Ingredients for Transition \~ Bill McKibben: Building Social Movements and Organising for Change \~ Transition Camp south east \~ German/Austrian/Swiss Transition (Un-)Konference --- **EXPLORING THE TRANSITION WORLD** **An August Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition** Australia, Japan, Spain, Kinsale, Canada, Italy and the UK and more are included. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-08-31/august-round-whats-happening-transition **US Edition Round Up** Some highlights of what’s keeping Transition Initiatives busy across the US. http://transitionus.org/stories/august-round-whats-happening-world-transition-us-edition-2011 **Let it go where it needs to go** A status report about Transition in Los Angeles http://transitionus.org/blog/let-it-go-where-it-needs-go **Ruah Swennerfelt recounts her travels** visiting Transition Initiatives in Belgium, Netherlands, and Sweden http://transitionus.org/blog/visiting-transition-initiatives-belgium-netherlands-and-sweden and then on to exploring Transition in England in Chesterfield and Bristol. http://transitionus.org/blog/exploring-transition-england-part-one **A journey home** – Seeking the essence of Transition in England http://transitionvoice.com/2011/08/a-journey-home-seeking-the-essence-of-transition-in-england/ **Transition Fujino — Prospects for a better future** In these difficult months following the 11 March quake and tsunami, it has been a time for reflection and an opportunity to ponder what the future holds in store for Japan. [http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/transition-fujino-%E2%80%93-prospects-for-a-better-future/](http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/transition-fujino-%E2%80%93-prospects-for-a-better-future/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Cycling to raise money for Transition and Sustrans** A 4,500 mile bicycle ride around the coast of Britain. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-08-31/cycling-raise-money-transition-and-sustrans --- **THINKING ALOUD** **Coming Round The Dark Mountain Part 1: Uncivilisation** Last month Charlotte du cann went to Uncivilisation, a festival organised by the Dark Mountain project. Below is a writer’s cut of article she wrote for The Independent newspaper. [http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2011/09/coming-round-dark-mountain-1.html](http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2011/09/coming-round-dark-mountain-1.html?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Coming Round The Dark Mountain Part 2: the Shaman and the Village** Here Charlotte explores the idea that Dark Mountain is something you can visit, Transition is something you live. [http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2011/02/coming-round-dark-mountain-part-2.html](http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2011/02/coming-round-dark-mountain-part-2.html?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Why do so many people believe in the fantasy of infinite growth on a finite planet?** There are three honest (but bogus) reasons why we pursue economic growth past the point of effectiveness and reason. http://energybulletin.net/stories/2011-08-29/why-do-so-many-people-believe-fantasy-infinite-growth-finite-planet **Five bummer problems that make societies collapse** A TED talk Jared Diamond gave has examples from the Greenland Norse. These were the unlucky Vikings who missed the boat to Normandy, where their more fortunate countrymen set up colonies. [http://transitionvoice.com/2011/08/five-bummer-problems-that-make-societies-collapse/](http://transitionvoice.com/2011/08/five-bummer-problems-that-make-societies-collapse/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **A Different Kind of Tea Party** What kind of teatime conversations are you having? https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/transition-norwich/2011-08-30/different-kind-tea-party **Why I Don’t Read Like I Used To** I have a confession. I don’t read books anymore. Or rather I read books very rarely, is this just me, or is it a symptom of our age? [http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2011/08/benchmarks.html](http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2011/08/benchmarks.html?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Economic Resilience** In Sacred Economy, Charles Eisenstein poses the seemingly outrageous idea that money should be sacred http://www.transitionus.org/blog/economy-possible-scenarios-future-3 **Panic on the streets of London** Now is the time when we decide what sort of country it is that we want to live in. http://energybulletin.net/stories/2011-08-09/panic-streets-london **A Discussion on Resilience** What does it mean, and what it looks like in practice? This video of a panel discussion at Sunrise Off Grid took a good hard look at the subject. [https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//blogs/rob-hopkins/2011-09-01/panel-discussion-resilience-what-it-means-and-what-it-looks-practice](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//blogs/rob-hopkins/2011-09-01/panel-discussion-resilience-what-it-means-and-what-it-looks-practice?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **NETWORK TRAINING** **New Training section on the website** The how, what, where and how of Transition Training but didn’t know where to look is now online. [https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/training](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/training?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Transition Training survey: the results** Since October 2007 Transition Training has been offering a two day training course and a survey in May assessed the impact it has had. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-08-23/training-survey-results **A follow on to the 2 day course: Transition;Thrive** A positive, no-nonsense exploration of the Transition model and process, tailor-made to fit the requirements of those people attending that we will be piloting shortly. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-09-02/follow-2-day-course-transitionthrive **Your thoughts needed: Where does equality fit in Transition?** We’ve come up with a possible new purpose statement to reflect which says: “Transition Network supports community-led responses to climate change, inequality and shrinking supplies of cheap energy, building resilience and happiness.” Do you feel strongly about this either way? If so, we want to hear your thoughts. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/catrina-pickering/2011-08/your-thoughts-needed-where-does-equality-fit-transition **The Road to Resilience in Low Income Communities,** 23-25th September Chester https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-07-27/training-road-resilience-low-income-communities-23-25-september-2011 --- **PROJECTS** **Linen Project** A group in Australia has set about developing the skills and knowledge to produce and process fibre flax locally. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/projects/linen-project **Project sharing engine funding bid** Like the News Sharing Engine, its intention is to distribute the movement’s project information to Initiatives’ websites, enabling webmasters to easily embed all the functionality of our projects directory into their own sites. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2011-05/project-sharing-engine-funding-bid **More projects and add yours here** [https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/node/add/project-profile](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/node/add/project-profile?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **RESOURCES** **Exploring Community Resilience** This new free publication from Nick Wilding and the Fiery Spirits CoP gathers a mix of experience and academic insight into how local communities are learning how to cope – and even thrive – through difficult times. Written in an accessible style its stories highlight experience from Cumbria to the Scottish Highlands, and from New Orleans to Tooting, London. Web links direct readers to topical references, and a practical guide shows how to run a community workshop on the topic. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/resources/exploring-community-resilience **The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality** Review of Richard Heinberg’s new book http://transitionvoice.com/2011/08/economics-has-failed-us-but-there-is-life-after-growth/ **German military analysis of peak oil now available** The Bundeswehr has posted an English version (112 pages) of their extraordinary analysis of peak oil. The original German document was approved for public release last November, yet neither the complete German version nor the partial English translation has attracted interest from mainstream media. [http://t.co/lsENYBY](http://t.co/lsENYBY?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **COMING UP** **Transition Companion** At the end of October ‘The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times by Rob Hopkins will be published. The launch timeline is here including the ‘Twitter Book Launch’! [https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/transition-companion](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/transition-companion?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Exploring the Ingredients for Transition** 12th September – 3:00pm (BST) An online conversation with Rob Hopkins where he will go more deeply into the “ingredients of Transition” as well as answering questions supplied by participants. https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/events/2011-09-12/exploring-ingredients-transition **Bill McKibben: Building Social Movements and Organising for Change** 3-7th October Schumacher College, Totnes https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/events/2011-10-03/bill-mckibben-building-social-movements-and-organising-change **Transition Camp south east** 7-9th October http://there.is/transitioncamp/ **German/Austrian/Swiss Transition (Un-)Konference** 14-16th Oct. in Bielefeld/Germany now open for booking Program, details and booking (in German) here: http://www.transition-initiativen.de/page/2011-un-konferenz More events here [https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/events](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/events?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- Follow Transition Network on Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/transitiontowns](http://twitter.com/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org#!/transitiontowns) Find previous editions of the newsletter here [https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/tags/transition-network-newsletter](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/tags/transition-network-newsletter?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) Read this newsletter online https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news/2011-09-02/september-2011-transition-network-newsletter This newsletter is published on the first Friday of each month. Newsletter Editor: Mike Grenville, from Transition Forest Row for the Transition Network Contact: mgrenville@gmail.com +44 (0)7974924289