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Rob Hopkins speaking about Transition Towns at TED Global
Over the last few days I have focused the videos on money. It's a popular subject and also one that has a lot of emotional energy behind it. We desire it, and yet it seems scarce - Rushkoff showed why very well, (before pointing to the way to radical abundance). The rich are getting richer and... the money is, well losing its buying power. Meanwhile people are printing their own for use in regional communities, and others suggest it's time we began firmly and lovingly questioning the rules we thought we were obliged to live by. If you want more then you might want to look at these from Fora TV, or search youtube for New Currency or Federal Reserve or Community Currency.
The financial implosion is almost certainly directly related to the state of our global energy reserves. Since Transition Towns look the energy issue and its related Climate issue squarely in the eye, I thought it was time to hear from Rob Hopkins about how people in communities all over the world are responding, to these very real challenges of the day.Oil - as we love it and leave it.
We've been astonishingly lucky [to have lived through the oil age]. Let's honour what is has brought us and move forward from this point, because if we cling to it, and assume that it can underpin our choices the future it presents to us is one that is really unmanageable. By loving and leaving all that the oil age has done for us we are able to begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.
Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel.
Where I live in New Zealand, the Transition model has been growing steadily, and offers a means for people to get involved and take some practical action towards building the brighter future they know is possible.
Transition Town Lewes
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An introductory look at the why of Transition. Links the Climate Change issue to Oil consumption. Starts slow, with lots of shots of people struggling with the question of our impact on climate change. Then gets into a fun and well paced look at the prevalence of oil and oil products in our lives. It ends just after 3.5 mins, and the last part is black screen.
Transition Waiheke Community Orchard
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Hear volunteers singing as they lay down cardboard and mulch to suppress the aggressive Kikuyu grass in preparation for planting.Interviews are snappy and to the point, and the last one is with Roberto Perez (Think Power of Community film - Cuba), taken while he was visiting Waiheke in March on his Power of Community tour.
This orchard was planted out two months later with 35 different fruit and nut trees, some of which have already yielded fruit.
Launch of the Lewes Pound
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This is a big public meeting. At the end you can witness the huge public response to the launch of the Lewes Pound 9th September 2008. Interviews with Rob Hopkins and figures from the Lewes community. Here is a community that is not sitting back passively as the global economic system crumbles.
Transition Westcliff and Regae music
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Ted Howard on Bicycles
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Dr Joanna Santa Barbara talks Bicycles with Ted Howard 15 June 09 (15 mins)
Transition Towns in NZ a one year celebration
A simple collection of photos gathered from all over the country at in September 2008. The video has a great sound track and the pictures tell the story of the level of activity that took hold in Aotearoa in the first year of transition towns.Given it is now another year on, it seemed like a good time to re-visit this one.
The Big Intent for Sustainability
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A wonderfully energetic video record of a lively 2 day event held on Waiheke in October 2008. Many voices expressing concerns and solutions from all sorts of diverse points of view. Enjoyable, inspiring and entertaining.
2 days of film and ideas to challenge and expand our worldview. There were several live video feeds bringing people in from all over the planet. We connected with people like Rob Hopkins of Transition Network in the UK, Andy Bichlbaum, half of the famous "Yes Men" duo, Mike Fincken, the skipper of the Rainbow Warrior - who were in the Thames River at the time, and others. Some local personalities and some imports from Auckland made for a lineup of presentations that covered wide ranging topics, to compliment the diverse offering of (mostly) documentary film.
James Samuel on Transition Towns
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Peta Stavelli interviews James Samuel on Waiheke Radio about the transition towns movement.
