Transition Bay St Margarets is a suburban town initiative started in January 2011. St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, presents a hybrid culture between newer residents who are either retirees or commuters into the Halifax city core, and long-time residents with livelihoods based on tourism, services or resources.
Having evactuated from the big smoke to North Nottinghamshire about a year ago I've realised both myself and my wife haven't gotten to know the neighbours or the community anywhere near as well as we'd like. Part of the reason for moving out to the countryside was to seek a greater sense of community and get closer to the land and to nature.
For many years I thought Permaculture was one of those things that desk and chair gardeners raved about. The Permaculture display gardens at various festivals would often be pretty, but failed to impress me as to their capacity to feed people.
Simon is a website designer and publisher who works from home on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. He grows and finds food and enjoys various DIY projects with recycled or found materials, then writes about them. He has several blogs on green and transition issues including a Resurgence readers' group.
It is ACTING to turn our planetary tragedy around and creating a new world comedy of local thriving all over the world, the great act of our time. It is reversing the 20th century tragedy of mutually assured destruction of all kinds into a 21st century comedy of Mutually Assured Vitality For All Living Kind.
I am an associate of Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability, an interdisciplinary post doctoral research fellow at the University of St. Andrews working on issues of Environmental Sustainability (although I am mainly based in London) and director of international permaculture NGO Project Maya (www.mayaproject.org).
As with all Inner Transition workshops the basic principles are that we learn best by a combination of receiving information that helps us understand more deeply challenges and solutions, self and group reflection, listening to and hearing each other's experience and sharing our own stories and experiences.
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