Pies, hugs and pedal spanners
A while back a friend here in Totnes, after learning of my DoctorBike sessions in the market on a Saturday, asked me, “Why do you fix bikes for free?”. Sounds like a simple question, but it isn’t. And behind it is a whole lot of assumptions and prejudices.
June 13, 2012
Transition and “activism’s” edge
I don’t think we’re really going to understand this friction between, and the potential energy arising from, transition and “activism/action” unless the latter term gets further granularity. “Transition justice” is a new term and probably means different things to everyone. How this gets woven explicitly into the framing of Transition is a question we’ve not answered yet. But at least we’re asking that question.
June 29, 2011
A Personal Report from Ben Brangwyn at COP15
Transition’s objectives of having a positive impact on social justice is implicit, rather than explicit, and I understand why some people don’t see it straightaway – hell, sometimes it feels hidden even to me. It’s a familiar pattern – I witness and feel another being’s pain at our unthinkingly consumptive patterns of behaviour, I start to beat myself up about not doing more, and then eventually apply some intellectual recognition of the benefits an ubiquitous fabric of transitioned communities will bring to these all-too-familiar horror stories…
December 16, 2009
Peak oil and dentistry
Two UK dentists respond to questions regarding dentistry and Peak Oil.
July 25, 2007