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The Transition Movement is a worldwide network of people working locally to move away from fossil fuel-base infrastructure toward locally-based systems. Projects include community-owned renewable energy utilities, local food security projects and farmers markets, local currencies, conversions of lawns into edible landscapes, waste reduction, ecosystem restoration, social entrepreneurship—all things that cultivate resilient and healthy communities. Don Hall, long-time leader in the Transition Towns movement, with a background in permaculture and organic farming, is author of the new book, The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World. In the podcast he talks about some of the many successful projects of the movement, as well as the stages of development inherent in movement-building and social change.
Linden Ashcroft (pictured) went from wanting to be a poet to climate science, although she still dabbles in poetry.Linden grew up in country Victoria, in Tatura near Shepparton, on the lands of the Yorta Yorta people, and is a lecturer, climate scientist and science communicator at the University of Melbourne.Her parents still live in Tatura, and she will be back there on Saturday, September 6, for an event organised by the Transition Towns group in Tatura.The Tatura Transition Towns program will include, in addition to Linden, a performance from the Melbourne band, "Music for a Warming World".Short films and other identities are being organised now for the September 6 event.People can learn more about "Tatura Transition Towns" by checking its Facebook page.
This week, we explore the synergy between the Transition Town Movement and the Local Peace Economy. Hear how communities are building resilience by reducing dependence on fossil fuels through local food production, renewable energy, waste reduction, and fostering meaningful connections. Sari Steuber and Julie Smith with Transition Town Greater Media shares with Marie Goodwin, CODEPINK's Local Peace Economy Coordinator, inspiring stories of impactful initiatives and how these efforts align with the principles of peace, sustainability, and grassroots empowerment.
Transition Town's end-of-year dinner reminds us that most people can't grasp or even attempt to understand the implications and ramifications of climate change. "The struggle against climate change is foundering. Enter Trump."; "A strange new climate era is beginning to take hold"; "Post US Election Blues: Where Do We Take Our Activism from Here?"; "‘Unprecedented' climate extremes are everywhere. Our baselines for what's normal will need to change"; "Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods"; "Six things we learned about the Australian government's response to the climate crisis"; "Photos show record-breaking South Korea snowfall"; "Walter Jehne on urban agriculture and the climate emergency"; "Albanese kills off deal with Greens to pass ‘nature positive' legislation after intervention by WA premier"; "Rising Tide protesters arrested in Canberra for blocking road to Parliament House"; "Labor's term began with promise on the environment. It ends with things worse than ever"; "Australia's electricity market is getting a big makeover – and these 3 changes will make it future-proof"; "‘A dose of nature': each time you visit a national park, you save the health budget almost $100"; "Europe's Cruise Ships Produce Toxic Sulphur Emissions Equivalent to 1 Billion Cars, Study Finds"; "Record renewables go into the grid in 2024, generating 45% of electricity in 2025"; "‘Silent majority' of Australian farmers found to support renewable energy transition"; "NSW gives planning approval for giant 2 GWh battery at site of state's likely last coal generator": "COP29 verdict: Climate summits must turn over a new leaf"; "COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku"; "Congo landslide kills at least nine people, most of them children"; "Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2024"; "Forest Areas in China Are Recovering Since the 21st Century"; "Multipolar Climate Diplomacy"; "Do EVs hold their value? Here's how electric cars fare on the second-hand market"; "Cutting-edge new charger the size of a suitcase could help curb emissions from trucks in Europe"; "Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?"; "A tax on new plastic would slash waste – if built into the global treaty on plastics"; "When climate change upends sacred rituals, the faithful adapt"; "Could China's CO2 emissions peak by 2025? Experts optimistic about the superpower's green transition"; "‘Put Your Head Down, Help Each Other Out': Inside Asheville's Helene Response"; "As American Farms Face More Drought, Storms and Flooding, a New Agriculture Secretary Will Have to Reckon With Climate Change"; "How big fossil-fuel-producing countries export emissions abroad"; "Climate denial a unifying theme of Trump's cabinet picks, experts say"; "How to Help Those Still Devastated by Hurricane Helene"; "Gaslighting: How North Carolina's immense natural gas buildout contributes to climate change"; "Cashing Out: The secretive system disrupting climate action and forcing big payouts to fossil fuel companies"; "How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries"; "Ground Truthed" - George Monbiot; "
In this episode, we're joined by composer and activist Michael Levy, to explore the intersection of music, art, and climate action. Michael discusses the inspiration behind his latest album focused on the climate crisis, and how he translates complex environmental issues into emotionally charged music. We dive into his songwriting process and how he balances the weight of environmental issues with his creative flow. Michael also shares stories from his involvement in movements like Transition Town, Extinction Rebellion, and his role in the resistance against the Line 3 pipeline, reflecting on how these experiences have shaped his music and activism. We also explore the challenges of staying resilient in the face of burnout, and the role music plays in sustaining his long-term advocacy. Join us for an in-depth conversation about how music can drive action and provide hope in the fight for a sustainable future. Opening/closing music: Blockadia by Michael Levy Check out Mr. Levy's other music here: Michael Levy Band
Juliet Sinisterra's website: http://www.thevenushive.com Juliet's course beginning in Nov. 2024: https://www.thevenushive.com/course: "The Pleiades and Pachamama: Creating the Rainbow Bridge to Build New Earth Juliet's journey spans over 30 years in urban design, master planning, and sustainable community development across Washington State. For the past five years, Juliet has deepened her understanding as a student of astrology and shamanic traditions, enriching her role as a guide and mentor. Passionate about integrating urban systems with the wisdom of nature, Juliet explores how communities can thrive within the boundaries of our planet. Her work centers on developing regenerative urban landscapes and nature-based infrastructure that honor and support all forms of life. Juliet's journey draws strength from her connection to her Quechuan/Colombian roots, infusing her teachings with indigenous wisdom and a holistic approach to community development. Her vision extends beyond sustainable infrastructure, envisioning cities that harmonize with the Earth's natural rhythms and planetary boundaries. Juliet holds a professional degree in Architecture and certificates in urban design, Transition Towns and Biomimicry for Social Innovation To become a patron of Heather: / heatherensworth Heather's website: https://www.risingmoonhealingcenter.com/
In this month's Citizens' Climate Radio episode, Rob Hopkins, one of the founders of the Transition Town movement, shows us how playful imagination can lead to real-world solutions, and you will discover how a life-sized whale made of plastic bags brought a community together to pass groundbreaking legislation. Artist Carrie Ziegler shares her extraordinary project that mobilized hundreds of schoolchildren to make a powerful statement about plastic pollution. In the Nerd Corner, Dana Nuccatelli tackles the big question: is a carbon price still effective in a post-Inflation Reduction Act world? Rob Hopkins, Time Traveler and Creative Climate Change Campaigner Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of several influential books, including “The Transition Handbook” and “From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want,” believes that playful imagination is crucial for tackling climate change. An Ashoka Fellow with a PhD from the University of Plymouth and two honorary doctorates, Rob encourages communities to adopt sustainable practices that promote self-sufficiency and environmental stewardship. "My work is about finding positive solutions to climate change," says Rob, who also engages in printmaking in his spare time. His approach to climate activism is deeply rooted in the power of imagination, urging people to envision a future where collective action has transformed our world for the better. One of Rob's most innovative techniques involves time travel exercises, where he guides participants to imagine themselves in the year 2030 or beyond, a time shaped by years of dedicated environmental efforts. "I always remind people, ten years is actually a long, long time in terms of things that can happen," he explains. Participants universally envision a cleaner, more content, and more connected world through these exercises. Rob's ability to inspire others by helping them create a "new north star" in their lives, where a low-carbon future feels "delicious and irresistible," makes his perspective both inventive and motivating. As he puts it, "We need to cultivate and nurture in people the most profound longing for a low-carbon future." Rob Hopkins hosts the podcast From What If to What Next, which explores imaginative solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges. You can learn more about Rob, his books, and the Transition Town movement by visiting his website. You can watch the film, Transition 2.0 for free on YouTube. It is “an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” Additionally, check out his latest projects, the Ministry of Imagination Manifesto and Field Recordings from the Future. Rob's forthcoming book, “How to Fall in Love with the Future,” is set to be released next year. In November 2022, Rob was honored as an Honorary Citizen of Liège in Belgium. Connect with Rob and explore his innovative approaches to climate activism at robhopkins.net. Collaborative Art Meets Activism: Carrie Ziegler's Whale Project Sparks Change Carrie Ziegler is a collaborative artist based in Olympia, Washington, whose passion lies in creating large-scale art projects that inspire positive change. By working with schools, nonprofits, and local governments, Carrie brings together hundreds, sometimes thousands, of individuals to address environmental and social justice issues through art. One of her most impactful projects involved creating a life-sized gray whale made entirely of plastic bags and trash, engaging over 900 children and adults. "I decided to do a project around that," she explains, reflecting on her mission to end the use of single-use plastic bags. "We created this whale, this life-sized gray whale out of plastic bags and other trash." This incredible undertaking educated participants about marine biology and plastic pollution and became a powerful symbol in the community, helping to shift public opinion and inspire legislative change. Carrie's work is a testament to the power of art in activism. The whale, modeled after a real whale found with plastic in its stomach, was publicly unveiled at the annual Procession of the Species celebration, where thousands witnessed its impact. "There were actually council members who invited me to bring the whale to their city council meetings," Carrie recounts, highlighting the project's role in successfully implementing plastic bag bans across local jurisdictions. However, her work's true success lies in the personal empowerment it fosters. "There were kids, particularly middle school kids, who talked about how they felt personally responsible for that ban on plastic bags," she shares. Carrie's projects provide participants with a sense of ownership and accomplishment, proving that collaborative art can indeed change the world. Visit Carrie Ziegler's website to learn more about her inspiring projects, read her journal, and watch videos. For images of the whale project and additional information, check out the show notes at cclusa.org/radio. Take a Meaningful Next Step Each mont, we will suggest meaningful, achievable, and measurable next steps for you to consider. We recognize that action is an antidote to despair. If you are struggling with what you can do, visit our Action Page The Nerd Corner: Carbon Fee & Dividend in a Post-IRA World Dana Nuccitelli, CCL Research Coordinator, explores whether a carbon price remains the best climate policy in a post-Inflation Reduction Act world. "Putting a price on carbon pollution would impact almost every sector of the economy," Dana explains, emphasizing its cost-effective impact on emissions. Visit the Nerd Corner to join the conversation. You can also read some of Dana's articles in The Guardian. Good News Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteers nationwide achieved the goal of having over 30,000 climate conversations. By breaking the silence and discussing climate change with friends and family, they made the issue more real and paved the way for action. Listener Survey We want to hear your feedback about this episode. After you listen, feel free to fill in this short survey. Your feedback will help us make new decisions about the show's content, guests, and style. You can fill it out anonymously and answer whichever questions you like. You can also reach us by email: radio @citizensclimatelobby.org You can hear Citizens' Climate Radio wherever you get podcasts. 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In this month's Citizens' Climate Radio episode, Rob Hopkins, one of the founders of the Transition Town movement, shows us how playful imagination can lead to real-world solutions, and you will discover how a life-sized whale made of plastic bags brought a community together to pass groundbreaking legislation. Artist Carrie Ziegler shares her extraordinary project that mobilized hundreds of schoolchildren to make a powerful statement about plastic pollution. In the Nerd Corner, Dana Nuccatelli tackles the big question: is a carbon price still effective in a post-Inflation Reduction Act world? For complete show notes, links, and full transcript, visit www.ccluas.org/radio We Want to Hear from You Email: radio @ citizensclimate.org Text/Voicemail: 619-512-9646 Production Team: Written and produced by Peterson Toscano and the CCR team. Technical Support: Horace Mo, Erika Valdez, Ricky Bradley, and Brett Sease. Social Media Assistance: Flannery Winchester. Music is provided by epidemicsound.com Social Media: Follow us on X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.
The Transition Town grassroots movement is a way you can impact your own neighborhood. Learn more about this as Peak Environment co-host Ally Richardson explores Transition Towns with Becky Elder and Brian Fritz from Pikes Peak Permaculture. If you would like to find out more about public forums, lectures, and community green movies, or if you would like to host such an event, please send Pikes Peak Permaculture an inquiry at https://www.pikespeakpermaculture.org/contact-us/ Pikes Peak Permaculture is a Southern Colorado 501c3 nonprofit that educates adults and the youth on the wide world of nature and permaculture. Our upcoming class…. Weeds Have a Story for You! Fountain Creek Nature Center on July 20th, 2024 from 9am - 4pm. Learn more and register: https://www.pikespeakpermaculture.org/event/weeds-have-a-story-for-you/ Mentioned in this episode: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience - by Rob Hopkins https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2932356-the-transition-handbook Free eBook: https://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/transition-handbook/ Transition US https://www.transitionus.org/ Transition Network https://transitionnetwork.org/ Nextdoor App- Social network of neighborhoods https://nextdoor.com/ TED Talk: Transition to a World Without Oil - Rob Hopkins https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil Music on the podcast by Charlie Mgee from Formidable Vegetable, a permaculture-based musical band out of Australia. https://formidablevegetable.com.au/ This episode was produced by Pikes Peak Permaculture, a content partner with Studio 809 Podcasts. Visit https://pikespeakpermaculture.org for opportunities to learn more about sustainable organic living through permaculture – workshops, classes, field trips, and networking. The following environment/sustainability organizations in the Pikes Peak region collaborate to produce the Peak Environment podcast about environmental stewardship, sustainable living and enlightened public policy in the Pikes Peak Region. Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future https://www.peakalliance.co/ Pikes Peak Permaculture https://www.pikespeakpermaculture.org/ GrowthBusters https://www.growthbusters.org Keep up with all the organizations and events making our area a better place to live. Follow on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an episode:
Tapachula, entre gigantesque refuge et prison à ciel ouvertLeur souhait à tous : atteindre le rêve américain ou simplement vivre une vie digne. Depuis la pandémie, l'Amérique connaît une crise migratoire sans précédent. Les chiffres font tourner la tête : plus de 7 millions de personnes sans papiers ont traversé la frontière américaine depuis 2021. Elles viennent de toute la planète, mais principalement d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes. Toujours, ce sont les violences ou la misère qui les poussent à partir. Très souvent, l'objectif final est d'arriver aux États-Unis, mais avant, il faut traverser le Mexique. Au sud, la ville de Tapachula, la ville du Chiapas vit au rythme de ces gens de passage qui s'accrochent à leur rêve. Sorte de gigantesque refuge, ou plutôt une prison à ciel ouvert… Un Grand reportage de Gwendolina Duval qui s'entretient avec Patrick Adam. Totnes, la ville en transition C'est une petite ville de moins de 10 000 habitants, dans le sud-ouest cossu de l'Angleterre… En surface, Totnes ressemble aux autres bourgades de cette zone touristique : des rues pavées, des cafés indépendants, une promenade en bord de rivière. Mais la commune est en fait le berceau du mouvement Transition Towns, les villes en transition : des villes qui veulent mener le mouvement vers une transition écologique et sociale.Un Grand reportage d'Emeline Vin qui s'entretient avec Patrick Adam.
C'est une petite ville de moins de 10 000 habitants, dans le sud-ouest cossu de l'Angleterre… En surface, Totnes ressemble aux autres bourgades de cette zone touristique : des rues pavées, des cafés indépendants, une promenade en bord de rivière. Mais la commune est en fait le berceau du mouvement Transition Towns, les villes en transition : des villes qui veulent mener le mouvement vers une transition écologique et sociale. « Totnes, la ville en transition », un Grand reportage d'Emeline Vin.
Au Royaume-Uni, une ville s'est engagée depuis quinze ans à entamer sa transition écologique : Totnes est la première « Transition Town » dans un réseau qui en compte aujourd'hui 500. La petite ville de 9 000 habitants promeut l'économie circulaire, les petits commerces et les petits gestes pour économiser l'énergie. Dix jardinières bordent l'aire de jeu de Totnes, le long de la rivière Mouth. À l'intérieur, des poireaux, des choux, des fraises… Paul, jardinier, taille les basilics.« Dans ces jardinières, nous faisons pousser des légumes, de la salade, des herbes aromatiques. Quiconque passe par là peut se servir, prendre ce qu'il veut gratuitement. Le but, c'est que les gens reprennent l'habitude des légumes venus de la terre, plutôt que des supermarchés. »D'ailleurs, il n'y a pas de supermarché à Totnes : seulement des primeurs indépendants et locaux. Deux fois par semaine, le jardinier de métier anime des ateliers pour les bénévoles, sur les quatre sites de la commune.« J'adore l'idée de resensibiliser les gens à l'agriculture. En particulier en ville, on s'en éloigne facilement. Et puis la philosophie du projet me plaît beaucoup : faire pousser de la nourriture à donner… On a aussi d'autres évènements : trois fois par an, on organise un festival de cuisine pour aller de la jardinière à l'assiette. »Un aspect social prépondérantCe jour-là, malgré le froid et le vent, John a rejoint l'atelier et élague, lui aussi, les herbes aromatiques : « Je suis venu une dizaine de fois cette année, peut-être un peu plus. Ça me fait du bien, j'aime bien. Plus je viens et plus j'apprends ».En plus de l'aspect économie circulaire et sécurité alimentaire, ce Totnésien d'une trentaine d'années aime surtout le lien social : « Ce qui me plaît le plus, c'est que j'apprends. J'ai eu pas mal de problèmes avec ma santé mentale, et tout… Ce n'est que deux heures chaque semaine, mais l'aspect social m'apporte beaucoup, il y a toujours quelqu'un qui vient papoter ».Guy Erlacher Downing est le coordinateur local de Transition Town. En plus des jardins potagers, il supervise tous les projets de la ville : l'isolation thermique, la mise en relation de covoitureurs... « On remarque que l'impact le plus important, une fois qu'ils ont commencé, les gens savent quels changements pratiques opérer chez eux. Mais surtout, ils rencontrent six, sept personnes et créent des liens. Ce qui en retour crée de super choses : par exemple, les garages deviennent des "bibliothèques à objets" partagés. »Dans ces bibliothèques, des tondeuses ou des cocottes-minute, partagées par tout un quartier. Le jeune papa, qui vit dans une communauté autonome en eau et en électricité, estime que l'action locale collective comme Transition Town représente le meilleur remède à l'écoanxiété.À lire aussiRoyaume-Uni: la biodiversité a chuté de 20% sur le sol britannique depuis 1970
Au Royaume-Uni, une ville s'est engagée depuis quinze ans à entamer sa transition écologique : Totnes est la première « Transition Town » dans un réseau qui en compte aujourd'hui 500. La petite ville de 9 000 habitants promeut l'économie circulaire, les petits commerces et les petits gestes pour économiser l'énergie. Dix jardinières bordent l'aire de jeu de Totnes, le long de la rivière Mouth. À l'intérieur, des poireaux, des choux, des fraises… Paul, jardinier, taille les basilics.« Dans ces jardinières, nous faisons pousser des légumes, de la salade, des herbes aromatiques. Quiconque passe par là peut se servir, prendre ce qu'il veut gratuitement. Le but, c'est que les gens reprennent l'habitude des légumes venus de la terre, plutôt que des supermarchés. »D'ailleurs, il n'y a pas de supermarché à Totnes : seulement des primeurs indépendants et locaux. Deux fois par semaine, le jardinier de métier anime des ateliers pour les bénévoles, sur les quatre sites de la commune.« J'adore l'idée de resensibiliser les gens à l'agriculture. En particulier en ville, on s'en éloigne facilement. Et puis la philosophie du projet me plaît beaucoup : faire pousser de la nourriture à donner… On a aussi d'autres évènements : trois fois par an, on organise un festival de cuisine pour aller de la jardinière à l'assiette. »Un aspect social prépondérantCe jour-là, malgré le froid et le vent, John a rejoint l'atelier et élague, lui aussi, les herbes aromatiques : « Je suis venu une dizaine de fois cette année, peut-être un peu plus. Ça me fait du bien, j'aime bien. Plus je viens et plus j'apprends ».En plus de l'aspect économie circulaire et sécurité alimentaire, ce Totnésien d'une trentaine d'années aime surtout le lien social : « Ce qui me plaît le plus, c'est que j'apprends. J'ai eu pas mal de problèmes avec ma santé mentale, et tout… Ce n'est que deux heures chaque semaine, mais l'aspect social m'apporte beaucoup, il y a toujours quelqu'un qui vient papoter ».Guy Erlacher Downing est le coordinateur local de Transition Town. En plus des jardins potagers, il supervise tous les projets de la ville : l'isolation thermique, la mise en relation de covoitureurs... « On remarque que l'impact le plus important, une fois qu'ils ont commencé, les gens savent quels changements pratiques opérer chez eux. Mais surtout, ils rencontrent six, sept personnes et créent des liens. Ce qui en retour crée de super choses : par exemple, les garages deviennent des "bibliothèques à objets" partagés. »Dans ces bibliothèques, des tondeuses ou des cocottes-minute, partagées par tout un quartier. Le jeune papa, qui vit dans une communauté autonome en eau et en électricité, estime que l'action locale collective comme Transition Town représente le meilleur remède à l'écoanxiété.À lire aussiRoyaume-Uni: la biodiversité a chuté de 20% sur le sol britannique depuis 1970
Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages So how are politics going in your country? ... No, no, don't tell me - you're just delighted with how your version of democracy is currently showing up. ... I am truly feeling the pain and the confusion. And the inadequacy, of course, not knowing what to do about it right now. But what if in the future the good guys win? And if you knew that you were one of the good guys - and I think you are - what would that call forth from you? On Rob Hopkins' website there is a photo of him holding a sign that says, ‘I've been to the future…' Rob is a father, a husband, a speaker. He's an author, he's an artist. He's a gardener. And perhaps central to all of that. He is an activist. Rob co-founded Transition Network and also Transition Town. Rob reads two pages from ‘We Do This ‘Til We Free Us' by Mariame Kaba. [reading begins at 13:50] Hear us discuss: “We need to build what I like to think of as being an imagination infrastructure.” [3:32] | How to sustain energy as an activist. [6:09] | The power of ‘What if?' [11:41] | “And the only reason we're going to do it is if we're able to talk about what the radical transformation of society would be like in a way that is so irresistible and delicious and magnificent that of course, we want to do that.” [18:50] | “What does it mean to be someone whose work unlocks different possibilities and different ways of thinking about the future?” [21:03] | The goal of enlightenment is to free others. [26:41] | “The kind of activist [anyone] can be is entirely something that they shape themselves and is a reflection of what they're passionate about and what they care about and what they grieve for and what delights them.” [39:40]
Kory and Kellan gain a wealth of insights on several different aspects of resilience from someone who has made it his mission and lifestyle: Shaun Chamberlin!View on YouTubeShaun Chamberlin is an author and activist who has been exploring collapse and possible responses for over twenty years. He is the editor of 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy' and his late mentor David Fleming's 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', as well as executive producer of 2020 film 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' He puts the theory into practice as one of the custodians of Ireland's legendary free pub ‘The Happy Pig' and was involved with the Transition Towns movement since its inception, co-founding Transition Town Kingston and authoring the movement's second book, 'The Transition Timeline', back in 2009. He was also one of the first Extinction Rebellion arrestees, in 2018, and now leads Sterling College's online program ‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time'.The Deeper Dive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deirdre Kent is a long-time environmental activist with a background in teaching, campaigning, and lobbying and is also a prolific author, having written six books. Deirdre has been involved in numerous research and political campaigning efforts and has established various organisations such as Transition Town Ōtaki, the Ōtaki Timebank and The New Economics Party.Being involved in green economics for many years, Deirdre has most recently co-founded Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand and talks extensively about various economic concepts, currency design, money and the environment on her website. Not only that, Deirdre is an ardent supporter of a whole food plant-based diet for the associated environmental and health benefits and speaks passionately on this subject.In this episode, we discuss:Deirdre's diverse backgroundSpearheading Transition Town Ōtaki and The Ōtaki TimebankThe Degrowth movement in New Zealand and establishing Degrowth AotearoaChampioning change towards degrowth economic principlesTradable energy quotas vs Emission trading schemesPotential benefits of Tradable Energy QuotasThe importance of considering dietary choices as an environmentalistThe dairy industry in New ZealandTips for effective lobbying and the importance of visual mediumsTo view all the links to the websites and documents, visit the show notes on our website. Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast, leave us a review and share this episode with your friends and family.Please support our work and enable us to deliver more content by buying us a coffee.Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
It's been said that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism and our modern way of life. Why is it so hard for us to cultivate our imagination and to imagine that things might be different? What becomes possible if communities harness the power of imagination in building a more beautiful world? In this episode I speak to Rob Hopkins, writer and co-founder of the Transition movement. I visit him in the Buttercup Field and we discuss what might be possible if we moved from ‘What is' to ‘What if?' Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books including ‘The Transition Handbook‘ and most recently, ‘From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'. He is a Director of Totnes Community Development Society and of New Lion Brewery, and hosts the podcast ‘From What If to What Next‘. LINKS: Rob's website: https://www.robhopkins.net Rob's podcast: https://www.robhopkins.net/podcast/ Transition Towns: https://transitionnetwork.org Joanna Macy & ‘The work that reconnects' : https://www.joannamacy.net Jane McGonigal on the things that can change in 10 years: https://janemcgonigal.com Civic imagination office in Bologna: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-03-07/bologna-the-city-with-a-civic-imagination-office/ Antanas Mockus, ex-mayor of Bogota: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/the-art-of-changing-a-city.html New Lion Brewery in Totnes: https://www.newlionbrewery.co.uk All episodes and more at forestofthought.com Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/forestofthought Share and subscribe. Find all available platforms here: https://anchor.fm/forestofthought Our theme music is by Christian Holtsteen at stoneproduction.no.
Can you imagine your way to a better future? That is exactly what our guest, Sandy Turner, is hoping to achieve through his participation in Transition Towns. These areas are transitioning away from individualistic private property, huge corporations, and extreme inequality, and transitioning towards cooperation, regenerative systems, social and environmental justice, and community creativity. As this concept expands, we hope that together we can create stronger communities and a better society for all, because after all – good health is worth fighting for and is essential for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.“Being a friendly neighbor... that's what attracts me to Transition Towns.”Sandy Turner has lived in Northern California for 50 years and most of that has been in Mendocino County. In 2011, he helped start a Transition Town in Ukiah that was called Transition Ukiah Valley. He was one of 7 people on the steering committee for the project. Transition Ukiah Valley also had 6 or 8 groups of people focused on a variety of topics who put on films, potlucks, community bike rides, Skill Shares, and Free Markets collaborating with the Mendo Free Skool and the Mendocino Environmental Center. Since then, Sandy moved to the Mendocino Coast and has helped start a Transition Mendo Coast group (TMC). This group has held a Farm Helping Day and popular game nights for the community. TMC has also planted fruit trees at a local emergency preparedness HUB.Show notes:* What is a Transition Town?* How Transition Towns get started* How people can join the movement* Building a community* What if… * Use imagination, creativity, and play to help build the futureLinks and references:* Psychedelic Wisdom* Psychedelic Medicine* Daily Acts* Transition Towns* Transition Mendo Coast Facebook* From What Is to What If- Rob Hopkins Thank you for reading Mind Body Health & Politics. This post is public so feel free to share it.Want the episode transcript and video? Join our Tribe!Have a Healing Story to Share?We'd love to hear from you on political and health issues, and are currently soliciting stories from individuals, couples, and families who would like to share their healing stories with psychedelics.(Learn more about Wilbur Hot Springs)Mind Body Health & Politics is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Mind Body Health & Politics at www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/subscribe
Shaun Chamberlin is an author and activist who has been exploring collapse and possible responses for over twenty years. He is the editor of 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy' and his late mentor David Fleming's 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', as well as executive producer of 2020 film 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?'He puts the theory into practice as one of the custodians of Ireland's legendary free pub ‘The Happy Pig' and was involved with the Transition Towns movement since its inception, co-founding Transition Town Kingston and authoring the movement's second book, 'The Transition Timeline', back in 2009. He was also one of the first Extinction Rebellion arrestees, in 2018, and now leads Sterling College's online program ‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time'.Shaun's website: http://darkoptimism.org‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Times' courses/community: http://ce.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future…David Fleming's books: http://flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books/Free access to David Fleming's Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It: http://leanlogic.onlineAcross the DinerVerseSearching for the heart and soul of America one diner at a time! Podcast host, John...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
Tatura Transition Towns' annual Film Festival on August 27 in the town's Victory Hall had a fascinating vibe about it as about 40 people listened to an array of speakers talk about their role in helping people enjoy a more sustainable life. The City of Greater Shepparton's environment manager, Sharon Terry, explained the council's Climate Emergency Action Plan; Tatura man, Royden James, talked about the new home he and his wife had built in the town - a gas-free, totally electric home equipped with solar panels, a Tesla battery, insulation throughout (including the garage), double glazed window and importantly, orientated to take advantage of the northern sun; Henning Rasmussen discussed sustainable buildings and transport and urged listeners to visit the website "Your Home" to learn more about the topic; Peter Foott told the audience about Foott Waste Solutions; and 16-year-old Euroa youth climate activist, Rachael Buerckner (pictured), explained the process leading up to the creation and publication of a book aimed at children, a book that told the story of climate change. Louise Costa Pelle and her partner, Les, explained the process of building a "Passivhaus" on their Rushworth property - a house they are not yet living in, but which is already clearly far more comfortable than their nearby present home. Sadly, I failed to record what Louise and Les had to say, but Climate Conversations will make their home, the process of building it and the joy of living in it, the subject of a future episode. Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message
Welcome to the first interview episode of Crossing the Chasm. Jessica Alvarez Parfrey, Executive Director of Transition USA, is the perfect guest to kick off this podcast. Jessica has keen insights on what ails society, as well as provocative, inspiring thoughts on how to make the world more just and livable. Transition US is the official hub of Transition Towns and seeks to regenerate society through collaborative efforts aimed at overcoming the challenges posed by climate change, resource depletion and economic instability. Thanks for tuning in and we hope you enjoy the conversation!
Each week in Northland, people with excess garden produce meet to give it away to others. The crop swap meetings are about living sustainably, building resilience and strengthening communities.
Don Hall is a trainer and facilitator with TransitionUS, the US hub with the global Transition Network. He is a permaculturalist and former Executive Director of Transition Sarasota. Don recently joined us on The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast to talk about his life's work and the Transition Network's playbook called Five Stages of Transition.If you're not familiar with Transition or Transition Towns, it is a movement that has been growing since 2005 across the globe. Community-led Transition groups focus on a low-carbon, socially just future with resilient communities, and active participation in society.In practice, they are using participatory methods to imagine the changes we need, setting up renewable energy projects, re-localizing food systems, and creating community and green spaces. They are nurturing the Inner Transition of the cultural and mindset changes that support social and environmental change. They are sparking entrepreneurship, working with municipalities, building community connection and care, repairing and re-skilling. The community level of scale has huge potential to influence change and is a crucial part of developing and guiding social and economic systems toward sustainability, social justice and equity. There is an increasing recognition that top-down approaches are not sufficient alone to affect change and need to be combined with community-level responses. It's an approach that has spread now to over 48 countries, in thousands of groups: in towns, villages, cities, Universities, schools. Around the world, there are 23 Transition Hubs that support and connect Transition groups in their country/region and connect internationally.
This week we got to speak with Richard Heinberg about his new book "Power". Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and author of 14 books on energy and the environment, including Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, and, with David Fridley, Our Renewable Future. He's won an award for excellence in energy education and has been published in Nature, Wall Street Journal, and Literary Review. Heinberg's work is cited as one of the inspirations for the international Transition Towns movement, which seeks to build community resilience ahead of climate change. He and his wife, Janet Barocco, live in an energy-efficient Permaculture home in Santa Rosa, California.You can find the book "Power" here.A big thanks to our sponsor, ReadyWise. ReadyWise is an emergency food storage supplier with a great variety of meals (including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options!) that last up to 25 years. Click here for a 10% discount using the code KK10 (plus you get an additional 10% discount with your first purchase). Available in the US only. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/collapsepod)
Wir melden uns zurück aus unserer Sommerpause und haben auch bald wieder superinteressante neue Folgen für euch zu hören. Anlässlich des 10-jährigen Jubiläums von Transition Town Frankfurt haben wir uns entschlossen, diesen Monat unser Interview vom Januar 2020 mit dem Gründer Matthias Emde zu wiederholen. Matthias Emde ist Diplom-Geologe, Infografiker und Buchautor aus Frankfurt. 2011 hat er, gemeinsam mit Gleichgesinnten, die lokale Transition Town Gruppe gegründet. Im Januar 2020 saßen wir mit ihm zusammen und haben uns über seinen Wandelpunkt und die damit verbundene Geburt von Transition Town Frankfurt unterhalten. Transition Town (Stadt im Wandel) ist eine weltweite soziale Bewegung aus Großbritannien, die 2006 von Rob Hopkins gegründet wurde. Das Ziel von Transition Town ist, gemeinsam eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft zu aufzubauen. Build a better world. Auf die Webseite (https://frankfurt-im-wandel.de) findet ihr Informationen und Links zu den verschiedenen Projekten zum Beispiel Baumstimme (Wandelpunkt Folge #1). Dieses erste Oktoberwochenende 2021 feiert Transition Town Frankfurt mit den Wandeltagen ein Fest der Nachhaltigkeit über die ganze Stadt verteilt. Über 40 Initiativen wie Reparatur-Cafés, Unverpackt-Läden und Urban Gardening Projekte zeigen was sie können. Wer alles dabei ist erfahrt unter www.wandeltag.de Mehr Informationen über die Projekte von Transition Town Frankfurt und wie man mit machen oder spenden kann, findet ihr auf die Webseite https://frankfurt-im-wandel.de Oder eine E-Mail an kontakt@transition-town-frankfurt.de schicken. Bei Facebook unter: https://www.facebook.com/transitiontownfrankfurt Um mehr über Matthias Emde und seine Arbeit zu erfahren, geht auf https://www.emde-grafik.de Der ist ein talentierter Illustrator und hat sogar unser Wandelpunkt Logo entworfen. Das Zwischenspiel ist aus dem Lied “Turkey Groove” vom Pseudosound. https://www.reverbnation.com/pseudosound Wandelpunkt Podcast Interviews mit Leuten, wie du und ich, die Nachhaltigkeit vorantreiben. https://wandelpunkt-podcast.de kontakt@wandelpunkt-podcast.de
What helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection? Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joined by anthropologist and writer Jamie Wheal. Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind. In the book, he makes the case that in order to address the meta-crisis — the interconnected challenges we face, which we talked about in Episode 36 with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we must address the meaning crisis — the need to stay inspired, mended, and bonded in challenging times. Jamie argues that it doesn't matter whether we're staying inspired, mended, and bonded through institutionalized religion or other means as long as meaning-making is inclusively available to everyone.What we hope you'll walk away with is a humane way to think about how to address the challenges we face, from COVID to climate — by enabling us to make meaning in challenging times.
Refilwe Moloto speaks to Marshall Rinquest, Director of Greyton Transition Town. It is a community-based organisation with a goal of unlocking and cultivating the resourcefulness within the people of Genadendal, Greyton, Voorstekraal and Bereaville, and working together as a collective to build a resilient, sustainable and united community, redressing the past and walking into the future together, in the face of climate change and economic crisis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
« We need to be able to imagine positive, feasible, delightful versions of the future before we can create them. Not utopias, but futures where things turned out OK. Having the opportunity to "test drive" the future, to experience different version of the future, can help us feel they are possible ». This is a quote from the last book written by our guest today: Rob Hopkins. The book is called "Fromwhat is to what if" Rob Hopkins is best known as the founder of the Transition Movement and the Transition Town of Totnes.
For this episode, we have Barbara Belger. 2020 was a big year for Barbara: She turned 60, published her (first) book co-authored with 16 other "little old ladies", and became a grandmother. She started a new program called Living from the Heart and is currently re-working due to need for adapting the original plan with the current times. Barbara grew up in Germany. She spent a year in France at the age of 16 as an au-pair, finished High school, went on to study languages, and then worked as a translator/commercial foreign correspondent in large multi-national companies in Germany until age 30. She got married, moved to Japan, had two sons, and spent 17 years in Japan, Thailand, Mainland China, and Hong Kong. Then Barbara moved to New Zealand with her sons and the family dog after she got divorced. She had begun training for her new career in 2003, opened her first coaching business in Hong Kong in 2005, and set up her company "Walk Your Talk" in New Zealand after moving there in 2007. 2010 / 2011 were Christchurch earthquake years, and Barbara provided trauma recovery support under a government contract. 2012 and 2013 was her caravan journey through New Zealand, and she ended up at the other end of the country. By then, she had become more active in volunteering, leading social change groups such as guerrilla gardeners, anti-plastic campaigns (sewing bags), various activities with the local Transition Town team: a visionary and idea seeder. Her passions are trauma and everything related to the "big T's" and "small T's", the evolution of our individual and collective consciousness, and new leadership models. Barbara's training background is life coaching, hypnotherapy, NLP, mental health & addiction, energy psychology, and organisational psychology. She got trained and became a trainer in a modality - Meta Medicine and is currently working part-time as a Health Consultant alongside naturopaths in a Health Store where she also sees her coaching clients.
Heute ist unser Reisefunk ein bisschen anders als sonst. In der vierten Folge unseres Podcasts hat Manuel über seine Reise zu den Transition Towns in England gesprochen – eine Umweltbewegung, die nachhaltige Projekte in Städten und Dörfern in aller Welt ins Leben ruft. Dazu hat er nach seiner Reise selbst einen Podcast produziert, den wir jetzt hier bei Reisefunk veröffentlichen.Darin hat er mit Menschen in verschiedenen englischen Städten Interviews geführt, in denen sie von ihren Projekten berichten - Zum Beispiel von einem sozialverträglichen Café in London, von Gemeinschaftsgärten oder nachhaltigem, sozialen Wohnungsbau. Denn all das sind Ansätze, die unsere Welt zu einem nachhaltigen und gerechteren Ort machen sollen.
Dr. Thomas Köhler ist Sozialwissenschaftler und arbeitet im Pestel Institut. Er hat 2010 die Transition Town Initiative in Hannover mitgegründet. Seit dem ist er mit dem Thema Stadt im Wandel beschäftigt. Sein aktuelles Projekt stellt er hier auch vor: ein Bildungshaus für Erwachsene mit dem Fokus auf einer nachhaltigen Lebensweise. https://www.tthannover.de/ https://www.pestel-institut.de
How do we unfold future culture from our imagination? In this episode Amisha speaks with Rob Hopkins, an environmental activist and writer. Rob is the founder of Transition movement, cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. He has written 6 books on environmentalism and activism, and was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists. His podcast ‘From What If, To What Next' explores how we can make our future visions reality. He is a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. Amisha and Rob explore the power of our imagination and spaces that allow us to vision the future. They reveal that we live in a survival mode culture designing imagination out of our lives causing its mass loss and collective fear of imagining the future in hopeful and positive ways. Rob shares powerful examples from his latest book of how communities can de-activate this destructive way of being and step back into collective imagination. He talks about his work with Transition movement in Transition Towns, such as Totness, where communities are reimagining and rebuilding their world; setting examples of how we can imagine and build a new culture and tell a new story of positivity and hope for the future. We learn that in order to re-map our dysfunctional societies we need to re-activate our collective imagination. We need to give people a taste of a different future and spaces for exploring possibility. We need to re-imagine our relationship with technology, spend time in nature and with practices for quieting our minds, carve intentional time to be creative, to play and tell stories. The North Stars of our future are shining in the fine details we observe and in the ways we intertwine these. Links from this episode and more at www.thefutureisbeautiful.co
CLIMATE ACTION SHOW APRIL 5TH 2021"ONCE YOU KNOW"Produced by Vivien Langford What happens "once you know" about climate change? Two film makers from TFF show us the "spear in the chest moment", when a person with a platform becomes an activist. Once you KnowEmmanuel Cappelin had such a moment when he realised we are heading for collapse. It is a grenade word. When it explodes in your mind you need to find out what to do, to be transformed or to remain stuck. He visits Joanna Macey in USA and Dr Saleemul Huq in Bangladesh. These people have been bravely facing the challenges for decades. He looks at Transition Towns, Citizens' assemblies and direct Action through Extinction Rebellion. It is an intellectually provocative discussion. Emmanuel talks about preparing for the "long future". When we are reeling from local climate shocks and shortages how will we maintain democractic and civilised behaviour? What must we save on the way down? Beyond ZeroNathan Havey film is Beyond Zero – A feature length documentary from HaveyPro Cinema (beyondzerofilm.com) It brings us the story of a carpet company called " Interface" whose CEO, Ray Anderson, had a "spear in the chest moment" after reading a book by Paul Hawken. Ray saw that industry needs to achieve far more than sustainability. It needs to sequester carbon, and prevent future environmental damage. In 2019, "the company officially announced the completion of Mission Zero and introduced the next mission, called Climate Take Back; an aggressive new strategy to sequester carbon in their products and make their factories perform the same functions as forests, sustaining and replenishing the ecosystem." Nathan says " You can't mandate a change like that. A cultural transition makes an environmental transformation possible." We talk about the Green New Deal, Biden's climate action promises and the caring economy. He says we "have to bring more people in to design solutions" and offers his film as a part of any Business Curriculum.Teach This Story – Beyond Zero (beyondzerofilm.com)To build a lasting community of workers with a stake in the future here is an online course from HarvardIntrapreneur Accelerator If there's a tomorrow Song by David Rovics and friends Songbook – David Rovics -Singer/Songwriter
Grazie all'immaginazione siamo capaci di cambiamenti enormi. Recuperando lo spazio e l'abilità di sognare un futuro migliore, possiamo sottrarci agli scenari infausti cui sembrano condannarci le crisi economica, sanitaria, climatica attuali.Parte da qui il nuovo appuntamento di MONDOFUTURO, realizzato in collaborazione con ARPA FVG, dove verrà presentato in esclusiva il libro “IMMAGINA SE… Libera il potere dell'immaginazione per creare il futuro che desideri” di Rob Hopkins (co-fondatore del Transition Network, la rete che in Gran Bretagna sta coordinando il movimento della Transizione) ed edito da Chiare Lettere.Rob Hopkins ne è convinto e lo mette in pratica attraverso il movimento delle Transition Towns, città che, come descrive in questo libro, riportando al centro l'immaginazione, stanno attuando il passaggio verso una società più sana e un'economia più resiliente, improntate alla biodiversità, alla coesione, alla democrazia e alla bellezza.Da anni soffochiamo il nostro estro creativo, impegnati in una corsa sfrenata verso la produttività. Erodiamo la nostra facoltà di immaginare perché trascorriamo sempre più tempo davanti a schermi che catturano la nostra attenzione inaridendo la nostra inventiva. Ora è tempo di invertire la rotta. Ricominciamo a chiederci “come sarebbe se…?”. Per realizzare un mondo migliore, dobbiamo reimparare a immaginarlo.Interverranno Rob Hopkins, Cristiano Bottone, presidente Transition Italia, Paolo Fedrigo ARPA FVG. Modera l'incontro Simona Regina.L'evento è realizzato in collaborazione il Sistema Regionale delle Mediateche del FVG nell'ambito del progetto Mediatecambiente.
In today's episode, we speak with entrepreneur, community convener, PhD candidate, and social change leader Mary Kate Craig. We dive into a really fascinating conversation about how holding possibility as a purpose has so much power in shaping our lives. We explore the role fear has in guiding us closer to our deep knowing, about how the death of a parent was a catalyst to start to reimagine what life could look like and asking ‘is this what I want for my life?'. We explore the importance of community which isn't just about infrastructure and geography but about how holding possibility at the forefront has created a deep sense of belonging and a sense of home for many people in a small community in Southern Ontario. It's a powerful conversation and it's everything you'd expect from a person who sees possibility as a way of life. If this episode inspired you in some way, take a screenshot of you listening on your device and post it to your Instagram Stories, and tag me @amidehne.I want to invite you to help contribute to this podcast by submitting a question for the Disruptions With Purpose podcast. All you have to do is go here and submit a question or episode suggestion that could be featured on an upcoming episode.LINKS:Brave New Home - Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing by Diana Lind. This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.From What Is To What If Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins - The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.
Dr. Ove Daniel Jakobsen is a Researcher and Professor of Ecological Economics at Nord University in the Arctic town of Bodø, Norway. Ove has dedicated his life to the study of Ecological economics and has written many books on the topic including his latest, Anarchism and Ecological economics. Ecological Economics takes a Transdisciplinary approach to the topic of economics that connects Ecology, Sociology and Culture while taking a holistic, decentralized, community lead, bottom-up approach in designing a more sustainable economy for both humans and the inhabitants of more than the human world. Please contact the show with your questions and thoughts via www.transnaturalperspectives.com More on Dr. Jakobsen's work, books and contact information at https://ovejakobsen.com/ Visit www.transnaturalperspectives.com for more info on the podcast, our blog and writing offers, and how you can become a monthly supporter or donor to the show. Follow on @Transnatualpod on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / Medium Please Share, Subscribe & Support! Time Stamps 00:04:29 A Transdisciplinary Study: Ecology, Sociology and Culture 00:07:49 Integrating Utopian Dialogue in Business and Education 00:13:00 Ecological Economics: A bottom up approach consisting of decentralized cooperative networks 00:14:50 What does ‘'The Good Life'' look like in real life? 00:17:50Connecting nature, Individual development and Systems change 00:21:10In practice: Transition Towns in England 00:28:30 Demystifying the term UTOPIA 00:30:30 Why Greenwashing and Harm Reduction is problematic 00:32:45 Changing From Economic Growth to Green Growth 00:34:45 Why Growth? 00:37:00 The role of optimism: Start talking about what we SHOULD be doing TO develop! 00:40:45 From Crushing Capitalism to Eco Anarchism 00:48:00 Ove's Book Anarchism and Ecological Economics More information: Introduction to Ecological Economics w/ Dr. Jakobsen (in English): https://mediasite.nord.no/Mediasite/Play/9be3ad1823024f4fbba694b02a6c2d791d --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/transnatural-perspectives/message
In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Rob Hopkins, cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and author of numerous books including 'The Transition Handbook, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'. He presents the podcast series 'From What If to What Next' which invites listeners to send in their “what if” questions and then explores how to make them a reality. He was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer's list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4, in the French film phenomenon 'Demain' and its sequel 'Apres Demain', and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events. In 2020 he was a member of the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Sustainable Behaviour Change. (And in his - presumably minimal - spare time, he sometimes makes lino prints.) So, in this dynamic interview, we discuss his views on all of the above, and along the way, issues such as Buddhism, punk, permaculture, the climate & ecological emergency, the decline of play vs the rise of screens, the great reskilling, citizen assemblies, positive change, speculative fiction, and The Fall...
This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Nick Osborne about his journey. Topics covered are: his work helping the effectiveness of groups dedicated to social and environmental change, his tour of 30 eco-villages and intentional communities in Europe and North America, permaculture, the Transition Town movement, Extinction Rebellion, the Occupy movement, Deep Adaptation, Craig Hamilton and Evolutionary Enlightenment, how to prevent our egos from hijacking group work, psychotherapy, and meditation. For more information on Nick's work please visit www.evolvingorganisation.co For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/
We speak with Rob Hopkins, The founder of the international Transition Towns movement, who asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it. All of which he explores in his latest book 'From what if to what next', published by Chelsea Green Publishers. More about Rob Hopkins, Outreach Manager, Transition Network I just launched a new podcast series, 'From What If to What Next'. Subscribe here, and be part of the journey with me. My latest book, 'From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want', is now out, and will be published in French as 'Et Si' on June 3rd. Follow my blog here or follow me on Twitter as @robintransition. More about the book In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the future is going to be awful. There is an epidemic of loneliness, an epidemic of anxiety, a mental health crisis of vast proportions, especially among young people. There's a rise in extremist movements and governments. Catastrophic climate change. Biodiversity loss. Food insecurity. The fracturing of ecosystems and communities beyond, it seems, repair. The future—to say nothing of the present—looks grim. But as Transition movement cofounder Rob Hopkins tells us, there is plenty of evidence that things can change, and cultures can change, rapidly, dramatically, and unexpectedly—for the better. He has seen it happen around the world and in his own town of Totnes, England, where the community is becoming its own housing developer, energy company, enterprise incubator, and local food network—with cascading benefits to the community that extend far beyond the projects themselves. We do have the capability to effect dramatic change, Hopkins argues, but we're failing because we've largely allowed our most critical tool to languish: human imagination. As defined by social reformer John Dewey, imagination is the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise. The ability, that is, to ask What if? And if there was ever a time when we needed that ability, it is now. Imagination is central to empathy, to creating better lives, to envisioning and then enacting a positive future. Yet imagination is also demonstrably in decline at precisely the moment when we need it most. In this passionate exploration, Hopkins asks why imagination is in decline, and what we must do to revive and reclaim it. Once we do, there is no end to what we might accomplish. From What Is to What If is a call to action to reclaim and unleash our collective imagination, told through the stories of individuals and communities around the world who are doing it now, as we speak, and witnessing often rapid and dramatic change for the better.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner should have in their library and which serves as a good introduction, along with Toby Hemenway's The Permaculture City, to look at how we can move from the landscape to the people space. Find out more about Rob and his work at TransitionNetwork.org and the other resources below. If you are interested in starting your own transition town or want more information on the movement, let me know. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Until the next time, spend each day eating wild and creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources Transition Network Rob Hopkin's Blog Reconomy Project Atmos Totnes Making Permaculture Stronger LAND (Learning and Network Demonstration) Evidence based Permaculture Green City Acres – Home of Curtis Stone, author of The Urban Farmer
Liking the show?Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here!Support us directly on Pozible! Climactic Community CornerNight Terrace Kickstarter Nature for Life Rally - November 28th, 12pm, Melbourne Parliament, Spring Street. Meet Paul Shelton. Paul is the director of Growing Spaces, Member of the founding committee of Transition Australia and past president of Transition Darebin for four years. Winner of Darebin Sustainability Awards local hero in 2016 and Winner of Australia's most edible street, which I presume we can also thank his amazing wife for also! Paul is someone who has thought deeply about the question, what life do we want to live? And together with his family made meaningful changes, and even wrote a blog about it called A year of Treading Lightly. In this episode he speaks frankly about the challenges this brings, and experiences of raising his kids to understand climate change and build their emotional resilience. At a time when we are facing the reality of feared futures, this episode offers complimentary breathing space. A perspective that synthesises the painful reality with possibilities of growth and meaning. Paul organised a national convergence this year for Transition towns, attracting 120 locals and 50 people from around Australia. Their focus was on generating powerful, visible and interdependent actions. Transition Towns are focused on balancing motivating visions of what's possible along-side here and now proactive local approaches. The movement embodies the spirit of empowerment, a powerful blend of self-determination and community connections that together inspires and generates communal resilience. So wherever you are, thank you for listening, for caring deeply with us. Enjoy and soak up the joyful energy of this episode. Special Guest: Paul Shelton. Support Climactic Links: Home | Transition Australia What's it all about ! | A Life of Treading Lightly See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Philip Clayton hosts a dialogue on the subject of Deep Adaptation versus Deep Transformation, with Jeremy Lent arguing in favor of the latter and Naresh Giangrande defending the former. A previous guest on the EcoCiv Podcast, Jeremy is a well-known author and a leading theorist of ecological civilization. Naresh is the co-founder of Transition Town…
Ruah Swennerfelt has lots of experience in the Transition Town movement, locally, regionally, religiously, nationally, and internationally, and has now written of much of it in
Episode 76 - The Transition There are lots of folks out there looking for ways to create an economic transition to a more resource-based system. They're done waiting for our government or other big organizations to take the first step. Like our former guest, Michael E. V. Knight, they believe that real solutions will begin with individuals implementing new systems in their own lives and in their own communities. But too often, these folks are duplicating the efforts of others and re-inventing the wheel, creating needless work and minimizing their effectiveness. Wouldn't it be great if there was a place where they could find resources, education and networking opportunities to help? Gathering the Tribe There is. The Transition seeks to unite people who are willing to take action towards enhancing and protecting all life and our environment for future generations. It's purpose is to construct real solutions by providing the support, space and resources to do so via the community's collective knowledge and common heritage of the Earth's resources. The Transition also works towards discovering the root causes of major issues we face and proposes alternatives to the destructive systems we have in place today, supporting an economic transition. It's website platform can also be useful to those finding themselves in many different life situations such as those who live communally; those trying to create new social change groups or alternative living situations; or those already involved in growing networks of activists. Creating an Economic Transition In this episode, Nicole Bienfang discusses how The Transition helps people take action. Nicole is an entrepreneur, attention economist, interdisciplinary thinker, activist advocate, consultant, social artist, cultural creative, social architect and a founding member of The Transition. Nicole also shares a bit of her story and how she got involved with The Transition. Surprisingly, her story begins with the same activity that woke Marc Angelo Coppola up: binge watching documentaries. 1:00 - Chronic Illness - Binge documentary watching 3:00 - The Venus Project - Resource Based Economy 6:00 - Michael E.V Knight - Build a Resource Based Economy Now Facebook Group 10:00 - Intentional Communities considered patchwork solution by Venus Project 11:15 - Identifying common themes within the tribe 13:00 - Decided to create our own website 15:15 - Status of RBE Facebook Group now 16:30 - How the website helps people interested in taking action 18:00 - Pitfalls of too many groups trying to do the same thing 20:45 - Difference between The Transition and Transition Towns 24:15 - Top Down vs Bottom Up Approach 27:45 - Objectives of The Transition and how it takes action to meet them 29:45 - Identifying best ways to start taking action and developing "Your Action Plan" 31:00 - Matching resources to needs 32:45 - The Transition is a reciprocal organization - Stone Soup 36:45 - The powerful hidden fringe benefit of all this 39:30 - "There is no soup unless you put in some potatoes" 41:45 - Making fringe society mainstream 43:30 - Attracting and organizing volunteers and groups 45:00 - Developing a crowd-funding platform for funding member projects 47:30 - Some of the projects that are being helped by the site 49:30 - Site being used as a filter to find serious people for projects 51:00 - How can people make the best use of The Transition website? 54:45 - The importance of non-violent communication 57:30 - The importance of re- assessing the usefulness of our current system 59:00 - Ways to contribute to the Transition community and benefits of contributing 1:02:20 - Yearly conference at Twin Oaks Intentional Community
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast What can I say, 2016 was a tumultuous year for many. As this latest trip around the sun drew to a close there were many memes and references that 2016 was a year where people would make sure to stay up to midnight just to watch to it die, while looking forward to 2017 being an entirely different, perhaps brighter, year. I don't put much stock in a year being good or bad, as even with all my own ups and downs, a divorce, two moves, and some health issues, I'm quite pleased with what happened over the last 12 months: time spent with my children, dozens of interviews recorded, hundreds of phone calls and emails responded to, people met, and projects launched. Already this new year, 2017 is shaping up to be beautiful. But, there was some big news this year. Out of everything that happened around the globe, perhaps the biggest news for our community as a whole was the loss of two important figures to the movement: one of the founders and one of our best communicators. I speak of course of Bill Mollison and Toby Hemenway. I never knew Bruce Charles “Bill” Mollison, who passed away on September 24, 2016 at the age of 88, but I wouldn't be here without his efforts to popularize the ideas he developed with David Holmgren. Slow to build in the early years, seeing the number of trained practitioners grow from dozens to hundreds throughout the 1980s, and the books rise from a handful to perhaps a dozen, we are now seeing a flourish of activity building upon what Bill started with David more than 40 years ago. When I first came to permaculture nearly two decades ago, Mollinson's The Designers' Manual, the big black book of Permaculture, was about all we had to go on in the West. Starting in the early 2000s with Gaia's Garden, the number one selling book on permaculture thus far, the roots of this discipline took hold and allowed the rest to flourish. It is with a still heavy heart that I hold the loss of Toby Hemenway, who passed away on December 20, 2016. I had the good fortune to get to know him through correspondence and our interview together . Though Gaia's Garden touched many, it was his second book, The Permaculture City, that continues to hold my thoughts because of the critiques he offered on running away to the countryside, as opposed to being where people are: in our cities. He also throughout those pages encouraged us to focus on our talents and to create systems that account for them, rather than pushing to embrace someone else's example of what to do. To truly design our systems around ourselves. I was looking forward to a follow-up to that book, and was outlining a second interview with Toby when word of his illness reached me. Not long after, he passed. Both Toby and Bill will be missed and I'm thankful for the time they did have to share their thoughts through their writing, interviews, and, thanks to the good fortune of the internet, videos. With the big news from our community, there is the smaller news of this show, which entered it's seventh year in October, 2016. Between guest host David Bilbrey and myself, we produced forty-seven episodes this year. If you are new to the show, or want to check out some highlights, some shows that I recommend include: Mary Reynolds, the Irish author of The Garden Awakening, shared with us a way to reconnect with the stories of a place and to become a guardian of Earth. To listen to the myths and legends of the people and the land to reconnect with what we've lost culturally. Whatever our backgrounds, we come from somewhere and should get to know that where. Steven Martyn, The Sacred Gardener from Canada, reminded me, in a similar way to Mary, for the need to reconnect, by creating a relationship with the land that we are on. For those of us who can look to our ancestors and know that their stories are not those of the land we are on, we can reach back to those who called the ground we walk on home and learn about and from them the wisdoms of the first people, while also being allies to their cause, as continues to happen with the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock. I also think, from Steven's examples, about how many of us are displaced from the places where our stories come from and how we were once all indigenous. Those traditions, stories, and folkways often still exist, we just call them myths, legends, and old wives tales, and can rediscover them by connecting to our families or the land they come from. Moving from the land to our social and economic structures, both of the conversations with Shaun Chamberlin bring his work with David Fleming, and David's legacy, to life. Surviving the Future and Lean Logic, both books on my Best Of for this year, create a connection between the long standing work of permaculture to build in the landscape, and take it a step closer towards meeting the needs of our social and economic systems by addressing the tension we feel between our always on, just-in-time economy, and the slower traditions of community. David's vision, continued by Shaun, is not rooted in some sense of nostalgia, but on the prospect of what the world will be like when energy and employment cease to exist as we know them today. We can slow down and react through an outreach of our gifts throughout our community, which is what Eric Chisler, my dear brother, joined David Bilbrey to share his thoughts on. This subject dear to my heart as the boundaries of permaculture continue to push beyond the roots in the landscape, and Eric shared his own experiences and current efforts with The Emergence Network to create the opportunities the future will require. The interview with Eric meant a lot for me personally because it was recorded just as he and I were preparing to leave Seppi's Place, as that project came to a close. I give thanks for my time with Eric and how our conversations drove me deeper into exploring community and alternative structures as we spent late nights in the kitchen cleaning and preparing food, wrapt in conversations, while listening to heavy metal in the background. A colleauge of Shaun's, whose work he extended in The Transition Timeline, is Rob Hopkins, originator of the of Transition Town movement, joined me shortly after the Brexit vote, while we American's were reaching the zenith of the United States presidential election, to talk about the current state of Transition. During that conversation we also look at some of the critiques of permaculture to accomplish the work that is necessary to create not only permanent human agriculture, but also permanent human culture that can survive the climate crisis that is already upon us, and the looming thread of energy descent. Though we may not talk about these two motives for permaculture, especially as oil prices drop and we adjust to the “new normal” of weather weirding, but the dangers are not going away and soon will come to call. Dr. Talia Fletcher and her family visited me while still living at Seppi's Place. There we got to know one another and discuss a holistic approach to veterinary medicine, which we then turned into a later interview. For those of us practicing permaculture, we have allies among all disciplines, we just need to find them, as demonstrated in the conversation with Dr. Fletcher Just as we can find allies around us, we can also be allies in our communities, as I found from interviewing Robyn Mello, the program director of The Philadelphia Orchard project. After provided an introduction to that project, Robyn shared her own story about the community choices she's made by living in the inner city of Philadelphia. Having known Robyn a long time, she remains someone whose work I follow to remember what is possible in the urban environment. While others are still formulating and collecting their thoughts, she is actively doing the work through POP and her own life choices, all while living in the fifth largest city in the United States. Ending the retrospective on interveiws a conversation that started the year: Taj Scicluna, the Perma Pixie. In this continuation of the conversation we had at the end of 2015, Taj shared her experiences as a small business permaculture practitioner and what it means to straddle economics and earth care. I'm often reminded that 80 % of business fail in the first year and a half, so it's clear that being an entrepreneur isn't a straight shot at success, and still if we are going to continue to practice permaculture in the world that we find ourselves in, with liberal economic policies focused around market capitalism, there are structures that we can play with in by owning our own labor, or looking to work outside of those systems through structures like the gift economy, and by making changes in our own lives to live with less financial capital, while we build the social and otherwise. Myself, Taj, Shaun Chamberlin, and many others are choosing to live differently. I won't say that it is easy, but each day we can make the shifts that get us closer to where we want to be. It is a long game we are participating in. Industry, capital, and environmental degradation didn't begin overnight and we're not going to solve these problems either. As a mentor of mine used to say, “fast, cheap, or easy: pick two.” Let's make it cheap and easy by going slow. One day, one small act at a time. With these conversations that were all recorded via wire, also check out the group conversations from my trips to Clear Creek , Kentucky; Philadelphia , Pennsylvania; and Baltimore, Maryland. In those you can hear a multitude of voices come together in conversations about community, fellowship, and creating in urban and rural spaces. Live events like these are always fun, and I like going out to meet and speak with folks in person. If you would like to host an in-person recording of The Permaculture Podcast, and are somewhere near the East Coast, let me know. While recapping this best of from the show, I'd like to give a shoutout to Jason Godesky for creating The Fifth World role-playing game. Though it's been awhile since Jason was on the show as a guest, I got to hang out with him and Giuli at the convention Save Against Fear in October of 2016. During our time together I got a chance to play The Fifth World for the first time and in that process they evoked an Animist experience for me within the game when, for a few moments, I had to face the personification of my character's disconnect from family. It left me shaken for a few moments thanks to the power of the storytelling moment. Whatever your background, be it gamer, storyteller, or an interest in myth, check out TheFifthWorld.com. If you are looking for new books to read, some releases from 2016 I recommend picking up are Lean Logic and Surviving the Future, both edited by Shaun Chamberlin. Rewild or Die by Urban Scout, a persona of Peter Michael Bauer from Rewild Portland, and The New Wildcrafted Cuisine by Pascal Baudar. Lean Logic and Surviving the Future , as mentioned in my interviews with the editor Shaun Chamberlin, fill the gulf between Permaculture and Transition, bridging the landscape and the new culture needed for a bountiful future that acknowledges scarcity and embraces it. Rewild or Die , though a snapshot of a particular moment in time for the rewilding community, is one of the earliest books on Rewilding. I recommend this for everyone interesting in permaculture, rewilding, and the modern primitive skills movement. As someone knowledgeable of permaculture, Peter is able to provide insights on the intersection between the world that arose from agriculture, and what we have to learn from indigenous traditions, all delivered with a bit of snark and sarcasm. On the other side of the spectrum is Pascal Baudar's The New Wildcrafted Cuisine , which takes wild foods and turns them into high culinary fare in a way I've not found elsewhere. Yes, many field books will teach you what to eat and how to make it edible, but Pascal is creating foods that one would want to eat, or even see served in a Michelin rated restaurant. As part of the interview with Pascal, I also appreciate hearing about how many classes and workshops he took in order to learn all that he did to create the book. This is a valuable lesson for all of us to slow down and take our time collecting our experience and understanding our chosen discipline. Looking forward for 2017 and the 7th year of the show, I'm continuing to step into what it means to slow down and take a sabbatical where I reinvest in myself and the podcast. I'll continue to produce new long form interviews, as you're used to, while leaning on friends like David Bilbrey to have other conversations and add unexpected voices to the conversation. Behind the scenes, I've asked by friends at Liminal Collective to take on more of the work that happens when the microphone is off, like social media and the newsletter, so that I can focus on those interviews and The Possibility Handbook . After a long year processing over 1,000 pictures, hours and hours of audio, and generating hundreds of pages of notes, everything is compiled in a way that I can begin writing the book itself. There are, of course, other projects and things we have in the wings for you, but I'm in a place where I'm trusting the process of it all, and will make some announcements as they come together. Throughout everything, my door remains open if you have any questions or would like to talk about anything you heard here, from an episode in the archives, or on a future episode of the show. . Email: or send me a letter: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Until the next time, create the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, your self, and each other.
Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest for this episode is Rob Hopkins the creator of the idea of Transition Towns, a way for us to move from oil dependency to local resilience. That lead to his writing The Transition Handbook, something every permaculture practitioner should have in their library and which serves as a good introduction, along with Toby Hemenway's The Permaculture City, to look at how we can move from the landscape to the people space. Find out more about Rob and his work at TransitionNetwork.org and the other resources below. If you are interested in starting your own transition town or want more information on the movement, let me know. . Email: , or if you like, drop something in the mail. The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here the next episode is with Eric Chisler and is a conversation about Gift Economics and Community. Until then, spend each day eating wild and creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, your self, and each other. Resources Transition Network Rob Hopkin's Blog Reconomy Project Atmos Totnes Making Permaculture Stronger LAND (Learning and Network Demonstration) Evidence based Permaculture Green City Acres - Home of Curtis Stone, author of The Urban Farmer Sponsors The Fifth World Permie Kids Good Seed Company Connect with the Podcast Support The Show (PayPal.Me) On Patreon On Instagram On Facebook On Twitter
Dylan Evans tells Matthew Sweet about his experimental community in the Scottish Highlands and why the Utopia Experiment failed. They are joined by Elaine Barker who has looked at communities set up by religious cults and Joe Duggan of Transition Town in Crystal Palace. Also our changing attitudes to eroticism on film. In the week when the release of the film Fifty Shades of Grey is causing much excitment Matthew discusses prudishness and prurience in British cinema with film historian Melanie Williams, sexploitation screen writer David McGillivray and documentary maker Kim Longinotto.
The topic is the Transition Town movement and the experience of Steve Chase, Director of Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability at Antioch University New England and involved with the Keene, NH, transition, and Ruah Swennerfelt, former long-time long-time General Secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness and is currently involved with the Transition Town implementation in Charlotte, VT.
At the top of the hour tonight Brandy Gallagher calls in to discuss "Life Boats for the Future: Can we really pull oar together?" - based on David Korten's premise Ecovillages are one of the few remaining means for humanity to begin creating wholistic life choices around how to live more sustainably (urban or rural) and to get into relationship on the deepest level. What is the state of the cooperative culture in North America and the challenges, barriers to sustainable living. What options do we have in "redefining value and wealth"? In the second part of the show, Victoria Darvesha shares the story off the Dances of Universal Peace: a spiritual practice that brings us in touch with our sacred selves in an environment that allows us to honor the sacredness in each other. Learn how to find Dances of Universal Peace near you and the interesting history and effectiveness of the sacred dance/meditation.
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