Transition Carlow kicks off next week on 5th May with a mini-series of three events exploring the potential of the local community. The primary aim at this stage is to bring to the surface local people and organisations who might want to be part of Transition Carlow in order to develop community responses to the […]
Archive for April, 2009
One in four mouthfuls of food are pollinated by bees. Einstein once famously calculated that if bees were eliminated from the planet we would have only 4 years to live! So, given their importance in the cycle of life and to raise awareness of the threats to bees, Michael Miklis of the Biodynamic Association (also […]
FEASTA, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, have been ringing the alarm bell on Peak Oil for many years. With conferences such as “What will we eat when the oil runs out” and “Peak Oil: The End of Economic Growth?” they have never shied away from exposing the worst case scenarios and asking the […]
A weekend of talks, workshops, presentations and films is planned at Cultivate for the second Irish Transition Gathering to be held the 25th and 26th April as part of the 14th Convergence Festival. For anybody involved in a transition initiative or hoping to start one this symposium is a one stop shop to kick start […]
Glass Eye have given us a great leg-up by documenting the launch of the 400 Fruit Tree project and editing it into a fantastic web video which you can watch below. In just over 6 short minutes Nuala Roche and her team have magically captured what I believe transition is all about. That is, community […]