conference-2010's blog

Amelia Gregory, of Amelia's Magazine fame, has been a stalwart supporter of our transition efforts over the years. She's written up a thoughtful piece with some valuable critique here. As always, beautifully illustrated and thought-provoking, it shows a perspective from a very active activist at the cutting edge of climate action.

Just an absolutely MASSIVE thank you to Emilio and Sara who did some really wonderful filming during the conference - here are some of their great pieces:

Day one round up:  

Presentation from Alexis Rowell's workshop on Local Governments attached...

From Sophy Banks

If you’ve had enough of the Transition Conference at Seale Hayne – sorry! I’ve written this for those interested in the process of designing and running the event, particularly because what happened gave such an opportunity to explore what happens when something shocking lands in our communities and really shakes people up.

Thanks to Hilary for (a) stepping in to run the 'work that reconnects' workshop at the conference, and (b) for doing a write up. Thanks! Here is the write up:

The closing session was an amazing end to the conference with an excellent group conversation and responses from the organisers about the 'stoneleigh effect' and more. You can listen to it on the Transition Radio site.

The recording of the EDAP workshop is on our Transition Radio site

Thanks to Chris from Sheffield for the dedication!

Hi, we are Joe, Poppy, Yali and Michael, and we are part of a group of young people who are currently making a film called spOILt, about the Canadian Tar Sands, which has been funded by the Co-operative.

Four of us came down to the conference on Friday night, and it has been an inspiring, jam packed weekend at Seale Hayne. We have met many interesting people of many nationalities, from the USA and Australia to France and Sweden.

On Saturday, we joined in with some of the meetings that were going on, and participated in a group discussion about inspiring young people; this partly helped us with our own workshop on Sunday morning!

Thanks to Diana Moore, regional development manager of the DTA for her workshop on Community Ownership of assets.

And thanks also for sending us the presentation for wider sharing, which is attached to this blog post.

Sharing is caring, all!

Thanks to Nick Osborne for recording the Co-ops workshop from the conference

Download and listen to the co-ops workshop