Category: Transition Sweden
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Transition in Sweden supported by Environmental Minister
The spread of Transition Towns in Sweden got a big push forward recently from the Swedish Minister for the Environment, Lena Ek. Speaking at a meeting with Hela Sverige Skall Leva, the Swedish folk movement that hosts Transition in Sweden, she said: (Our translation from Swedish) “It was so great to get back to Stockholm…
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Industrial Capitalist City Culture and Transition Villages compared
Eco village culture to and industrial economy city culture r1 View more presentations from Stephen Hinton.
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Can we have economic growth AND eliminate all pollution? TSSEF thinks so.
It may sound impossible to you as you have probably heard that environmental destruction is the price we pay for economic growth. However, it is just as clear that environmental destruction is the price future generations pay for environmental destruction. If you get what I mean. Many economists I have met have looked at me…
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Interview with Connecting Stockholm
Last week I had the privilege of meeting the architects from Connecting Stockholm, the exhibition at the Museum of Architecture. We discussed Transition and the design of cities.
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Follow up from Mundekulla conference
The experience of presenting and being part of the sustainability conference 17-18th July at Mundekulla was quite amazing. So amazing that I’m putting together a longer reflection. For now, a video from the speakers.
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Meet me at the Sustainability Conference in Sweden 17-18 July
2nd Sustainability Conference 17-18 July in Mundekulla, near Emmaboda, Sweden. This year’s theme: “Man and Nature” “Think seven generations forward in every important decision” Native American proverb Scientists, business leaders, politicians and ordinary people are increasingly beginning to question our lifestyle. How has it become the way it is and what can we do about…
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Transition Conference, DAY THREE
Transition Conference Day Three Day three was rather diminished as I had to get to London to catch the last flight back to Sweden the same day. I did manage however to attend the Web meeting with Ed Mitchell. (Listen to an interview with Ed, he explains it better) What Transition are doing is truly…
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Day two of the Transition conference: crowd-shaping the future!
It’s nine o’clock in the morning at the Transition Conference and time for Pattern Language. This is what I came here for. The new Transition Handbook will be based around pattern language, and as a member of the steering group in Sweden I feel it is imperative I get a handle on it. Although I…
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Quick report from Transition Conference in Devon
The end of the oil age is nigh, and politicians are working on their austerity measures and speeches about crisis. Everyone seems to have a good idea about how things should be done, but the illusion that it is working is fading as oil leaks decimate three US states, politicians are caught with their fingers…
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Transition and the Krakow declaration.
Update: Here is the latest version of the Declaration. (pdf) Krakow, Poland 20-22 May 2010. SURE, a pan-European initiative for sustainable urban-rural development concluded its two-step program with a conference to explore how at policy, regional, commercial and local level the people of Europe could connect with the challenge of sustainability and to respond in…