Category Archives: Transition Towns

Open Letter to Rob Hopkins and Transition

Posted on 14 June 2011 by Graham Strouts

Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement, has posted some comments on my recent blog post The Hockey Stick Illusion in which he has challenged the change of course this blog has taken since its inception in 2006. Since … Continue reading →

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Davie Philip on Transition and The Good Life 2.0

Posted on 11 February 2010 by Graham Strouts

Via Transition Culture My long-time Permaculture and peak oil colleague Davie Philip gave an inspirational talk for Feasta in Dublin last summer. He includes a nice account of the origins of the Transition movement in Kinsale with the Energy Descent … Continue reading →

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Faith in Transition

Posted on 12 July 2009 by Graham Strouts

Update: 16/07/09 See Dan Dennett on “Belief in belief” here Updates: I’ve just put a couple of updates for clarification and a couple more links. I’ve marked them in the text. I also want to say, whatever about my concerns … Continue reading →

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Orlov: Only Aliens Can Save us from Collapse

Posted on 5 July 2009 by Graham Strouts

The view expressed in recently reviewed books like Holmgren’s Energy Scenarios and Chamberlin’s The Transition Timeline is that peak oil will be followed by a long, slow decline- Energy Descent- rather than an abrupt collapse. For an alternative view, Dmitri … Continue reading →

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The Transition Timeline

Posted on 29 June 2009 by Graham Strouts

Book Review: The Transition Timeline for  a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned  future … Continue reading →

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Powerdown Toolkit #10: Communicating Transition

Posted on 29 May 2009 by Graham Strouts

Where do we go from here? Communicating Transition by Graham Strouts and Davie Philip This is the introduction to the 10th and final episode  of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Center in Dublin. It … Continue reading →

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Powerdown Tookit #8 Energy Descent Pathways

Posted on 26 April 2009 by Graham Strouts

Energy Descent Pathways – Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco Villages This is the introduction to  week 8  of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Center in Dublin. It has an accompanying TV show … Continue reading →

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Powerdown Toolkit # 2: The Power of Community- Social Capital, Resilience and the Local Community

Posted on 5 February 2009 by Graham Strouts

This is the introduction to the second week of the Powerdown Toolkit 10-week community learning course created by the Cultivate Centre in Dublin. It has an accompanying TV show with a 30-minute episode accompanying each week of the course, soon … Continue reading →

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Powerdown Toolkit

Posted on 22 January 2009 by Graham Strouts

Over the past year or so I have been working with Davie Philip of Cultivate on the Skilling Up for Powerdown program, a learning resource in support of Transition Initiatives in Ireland. The course has been run in Dublin and … Continue reading →

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Rob Hopkins on Permaculture and the Kinsale College

Posted on 21 May 2008 by Graham Strouts

To mark the end of an era and the retirement of John Thuillier as director of the Kinsale FEC, Zone5 has managed to secure this exclusive and enlightening interview with Rob Hopkins who founded the unique 2-year course in Practical … Continue reading →

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