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The Transition Town Movement with Rob Hopkins
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.
6 Comments on "The Transition Town Movement with Rob Hopkins"
Apneaman on Fri, 9th Sep 2016 2:54 pm
I live on a transition planet. It’s transitioning from being able to support human life to not being able to support human life.
The Amazon Rainforest Burns Even as Brazil Prepares to Sign the Paris Climate Agreement
“Brazil’s emissions are the seventh highest in the world, and they come mostly from what is called land-use change—in other words, deforestation.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_amazon_rainforest_burns_as_brazil_signs_the_paris_climate_20160909
The fires are just part of the deforestation. They have been cutting down their forests rapidly for a couple of decades. I wonder where all that forest ended up?
The Beauty of Brazilian Cherry Flooring
Many homeowners are won over by the beautiful looks of exotics, like Brazilian cherry hardwood flooring.
http://www.armstrong.com/flooring/brazilian-hardwood-flooring.html
Plantagenet on Fri, 9th Sep 2016 3:57 pm
People i the transition movement imagine that their “transition towns” will like little lifeboats sailing away from from the Titanic of doom that is coming to our planet.
Cheers!
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Sat, 10th Sep 2016 2:20 am
As usual some idiot posted a link that
screws up the comments so that they
run off the page
Dredd on Sat, 10th Sep 2016 5:40 am
Visionary post with the usual insightful comments by Apneaman. Plantagenet is growing. Truth can’t be sabotaged for much longer.
When will the Kochcaine peddlers show up (Kochenstein Kochaine) ?
Cloggie on Sat, 10th Sep 2016 6:04 am
Message for the tenth time to mentally challenged apneaman muppet: the forum software can handle hyphen’s, but not underscores for wrapping long links.
So in the latter case, use tinyurl.
This is the last warning.lol
Cloggie on Sun, 11th Sep 2016 5:05 am
Transition Madagascar style:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/madagaskar-wie-ein-dorf-strom-bekam-und-neue-probleme-a-1108279.html
Grandma (first picture with panel) goes to India and gets herself educated about solar energy at the “Barefoot College”. Next returns home and begins to introduce the technology in her village (everybody illiterate). In Madagascar, 85% doesn’t have electricity, which means that up to 12 hours per day you have to live in the dark. And no fridges, no internet to educate yourself, no machines, no radio & tv.
Barefoot College only educates women and claims to have 500k households “enlightened” via solar panels.
Founder Barefoot College Sanjit Roy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_Roy
A solar system consists of 130 parts and granny can assemble it in two hours. The systems come from India, the first 150 are free, the rest needs to be earned by the locals.
Instruction manuals contain no text, just comic-style pictures.
Funding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature
Indian government
Cost installation for locals: 25$, real cost 70$
The Indians are better at passing knowledge than regular western aid programs.
The result:
http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-1042751-galleryV9-kkbg.jpg