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Transition Network’s Ben Brangwyn interviewed author, social entrepreneur, thinker, blogger and systems thinker, and also member of Bowen in Transition, Dave Pollard, while he was at Schumacher College recently for their Dark Mountain course.  Our month’s theme of Celebration ran through their discussion.  Dark Mountains aren’t really

It’s just as well I enjoy travelling on trains, as Germany is a long way from Totnes.  That enjoyment however does not extend to the train I’m writing this post from.  It’s the 40 minutes-delayed Koln to Brussels train, packed with people, and I’m in the

Naomi Oreskes is a historian at science who teaches and does research at Harvard University.  She is the author, with Erik Conway, of the excellent The Merchants of Doubt: how a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming.  We caught up by Skype to

Here’s a lovely piece by Ian Wild, a celebration of a project very close to my heart…  Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?  Around the turn of the