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News from August 2010

Transition Towns Conference 2010: The Automatic Earth Stoneleigh Lecture on the Financial Crisis

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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Amelia Gregory has written a wonderful piece about the Stoneleigh lecture from the Transition Towns Conference earlier this year. She has kindly let us re-publish it here, complete with wonderful pictures.

You can read the original post here, and the rest of Amelia's work over at Amelia's Magazine

Interfaith and Beliefs Conversation Day in Scotland

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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Would you be interested to gather with a few other people from faith and belief groups based in Scotland, to share and explore common values for stewarding and caring for our planets resources and well being, and see how these are being turned into action?

Bring Eco Theatre to a hall near you

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell

Moving sounds, the environmental arts group, has launched its new eco-show 'Connected'.

The recent showcase in Lewes was met with great praise across the board with feedback about how it is non-preachy, accessible and hugely entertaining it was. The performance is then followed by an optional workshop to unpack the issues further.

London Edible Estates Competition

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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Capital Growth aims to help Londoners transform the capital by creating 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012.

They have launched a competition to find the best community food growing projects on London’s housing estates, thereby highlighting the wonderful projects that are going on.

Deadline for entries is 15 September 2010. To find out more, visit their website. 

Capacity global faith toolkit

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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This is a useful pack containing a range of resources for use by faith based organisations or environmental groups alike. Full of tips and ideas on how to build better links with local faith organisations.

Download it from the Capacity website (.pdf download link)

Diversity project: From training to action

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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The Bringing Diversity Pilot Project, run by Transition Network, is aimed at supporting a small number of Transition initiatives to develop a diversity approach to their work.

Over the coming months, 13 Transition initiatives from London to Southampton to Lampeter will receive training enabling them to explore their own inner processes around inclusion and power, to find out what works and to develop action plans to be taken forward with support over the coming months.

Keep an eye on the Diversity blog to see how it evolves.

Inclusion in Transition

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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What can we do to become more inclusive?

This is a question that we at the Transition Network are starting to grapple with and if we’re going to grapple with it well, we’ll need your help, input and ideas too.

What kind of inner change might need to undertake in order to become a more inclusive movement?

Your thoughts on this – from the mundane to the sublime to the completely off the wall – are very welcome.

Calling all faith practitioners

Published on August 6, 2010 by Ed Mitchell
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Do you practise a faith? Whether you’re a Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Quaker or practising any other faith, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re in the process of building links with different faith groups and partners.

Plans afoot include a Quaker Transition conference in June 2011 and a Green Muslim event later this year, hopefully leading to a large scale national Green Ramadan Festival in 2011.

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