Inspirational speaker and activist, Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Town movement, relates how he has been turning to challenges of peak oil and climate change into action now for a better future.
Many thanks to the Soil Association and Tim Siddall (aka Boycott Coca-Cola Experience) for giving their kind permission to broadcast this material. Programme produced by Phil England for Climate Radio http://www.climateradio.co.uk Please drop me an email to let me know if you rebroadcast this programme: phil [at] switch-online.co.uk
Climate Radio presents the last in our series of four talks recorded earlier this year at the Soil Association annual conference looking at the impact of peak oil on agriculture.
This week the founder of the Transition Town movement, Rob Hopkins, relates how he has been turning to challenges of peak oil and climate change into action now for a better future. If you've not heard Rob speak before, I'd highly recommend it as he is hugely inspirational. Here he describes the thinking behind the community-led process of designing Energy Descent Action Plans and the Transition Town model which is helping 'unlock the collective genius of the community'. The original Transition Town in Totness is buzzing with creative energy and positive projects: - an awareness raising programme (film screenings and talks) - community "open space" days which brainstorm solutions and ideas for action - oral history interviews - finding out what life was like with less fossil fuel from older people - specific action groups on food, psychological aspects of change, medicine & health, the arts, energy, economics and local government - evening classes - bulk community purchase of solar water heating - formation of a renewable energy services company - local food directory - oil vulnerability auditing for local business - nut tree planting project And that's after just four months...
At the end of the programme we find just enough time to squeeze in a live recording of a lightbulb moment from the Boycott Coca Cola Experience. "Everybody Suddenly Got Real" was recorded live at Club Integral in Brixton earlier this year. For more info on BCCE including pedal-powered concerts and green tea, see: http://fairtradetrousers.wordpress.com/
Many thanks to the Soil Association and Tim Siddall (aka Boycott Coca Cola Experience) for their kind permission to broadcast this material.
Next week sees the launch of Climate Radio's new series seeking out the green shoots of our post-carbon future, "The Low Carbon Show".
View the slideshow of Rob Hopkins' presentation at: http://www.soilassociation.org/Web/SA/saweb.nsf/cfff6730b881e40e80256a6a002a765c/902f12def991d13a80256f9c005e300e/$FILE/conference_hopkins_workshop.pps Rob Hopkins' blog: http://transitionculture.org/ Transition Towns Wiki http://www.transitiontowns.org/ Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan http://transitionculture.org/?page_id=104 The First 12 Steps for a Transition Town Initiative http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/26/the-10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-become-12/ "One Planet Agriculture - The case for action" (PDF) http://www.soilassociation.org/Web/SA/saweb.nsf/cfff6730b881e40e80256a6a002a765c/902f12def991d13a80256f9c005e300e/$FILE/conference_caseforaction.pdf Soil Association One Planet Agriculture campaign: http://www.soilassociation.org/oneplanetagriculture "The Power of Community - How Cuba survived peak oil" (DVD) http://www.communitysolution.org
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