Start Small – The Story of Bec Hellouin Permaculture Farm
By Alexis Rowell, Transition Network
You have to take the time to train yourself. You have to take the time to convince yourself or to test yourself in the profession, to dirty your hands in the soil and to really see what it’s all about. There is a lot of fantasy around these projects but there’s also a reality which is difficult. It can be absolutely incredible, but it can be a nightmare if it’s done without preparation, without a good human design, without a good design for the site.
EU Referendum: 2 Transitioners debate ‘In’ or ‘Out’
By Justin Kenrick, Alexis Rowell, Transition Culture
There is just over a week to go until the UK votes on whether it wants to stay in the European Union, or to leave.
Review: The Art of Fermentation
By Alexis Rowell, Transition Free Press
“Between fresh and rotten,” says Sandor Ellix Katz, “there is a creative space in which some of the most compelling of flavours arise.”
Our watershed moment
By Alexis Rowell, Transition Free Press
We humans need water for life, we love it for leisure, we make art out of it; yet we also waste it, dirty it, privatise it, use it as a weapon and, most dangerously, stir it up brutally in the form of manmade climate change.
Ukraine: Challenging the pipelines narrative
By Alexis Rowell, Resilience.org
As a former correspondent in Kiev, Moscow and Georgia I find the attempt to link the Ukraine conflict with pipelines and natural resources is highly debatable.
Green vs. Transition Towns
By Alexis Rowell, Sarah Nicholl, Green European Journal
The green political movement and the transition movement could be said to share broadly the same objectives, but could the transition movement stand a better chance of changing people’s mindsets? Two transition activists from North London discuss their work.
The Arctic: a personal reflection
By Alexis Rowell, cutting the carbon
“Ice doesn't vote. Ice doesn't contribute to any political party. It just melts.”
Fracking – a tale of gas and greed and global warming
By Alexis Rowell, cutting the carbon
Every now and again it seems like a solution has been found to our energy problems, one that will allow us all to go on consuming (and wasting!) for decades, if not forever. In the last few years shale gas has bubbled to the top of the pile and is now being widely touted by the oil and gas industry as: a) a clean, green alternative to coal and oil; b) proof that Peak Oil/Gas is many years off; and c) a cheaper use of government subsidies than support for renewables.