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THE POWER OF COMMUNITY PDF  | Print |  E-mail

Transition Town Brixton in conjunction with the Ritzy Cinema presents

 

THE POWER OF COMMUNITY : How Cuba Survived

Peak Oil

plus Q&A with 'special guest'

6.30pm, Tuesday 14 August at the Ritzy Cinema, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW2

 


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Transition Towns on BBC Radio Scotland PDF  | Print |  E-mail

On Monday morning, one of the best pieces of radio journalism about Transition Initiatives, and about Totnes in particular, was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Investigation programme. The reporter, Mark Stephen, had travelled to Totnes a couple of months ago, and done a wide range of interviews, which are woven into the piece. You can read his report here and you can listen to the piece by clicking the ‘Listen to this Programme’ icon on the top right hand side. You can also hear the piece and the subsequent phone-in together by clicking here. The phone-in gives a real sense of how the Transition concept is taking off, people from all over Scotland ringing in to say what a wonderful idea. If you are feeling despondent and cynical today, and that change isn’t possible because no-one ever wants to change, check out the phone in as well as the main piece.

 

 
Cycle Heros PDF  | Print |  E-mail
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Duncan on the Camp for Climate Action PDF  | Print |  E-mail

 

 
88th B-day of Brixtonian Environmentalist PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Transition Town Brixton is proud to celebrate this week the birthday an original Brixtonian, 'the Gandhi of modern science', the world renowned scientist James Lovelock, who is 88 on Thursday July 26th.   James Lovelock invented the concept of the Earth as a planetary "super-organism" and provided the twentieth century with what may be one of its most important theories of life on Earth: the 'Gaia' hypothesis.

James Lovelock was born in 1919 in Brixton where he was raised as the only child of working-class parents.  Lovelock learnt more from the books he read in Brixton library than he did at his highly regimented and detested school.

 

 

 


Where were you educated yourself Professor?’

'I went to school in Brixton, two schools, a grammar school opposite Brixton prison, then I started my career as a lab technician in London, and then going to college for evening classes, but I learnt more from the consultancy than I ever did from university
.' (Interview with Creel Commission- 8.8.05)

Although he is one of the most famous scientists on the planet and one of the creators of our current environmental consciousness, he has often been considered a maverick by the green movement – but Transition Towns Brixton salutes his extraordinary work – however controversial – and  wishes him a Happy Birthday this week!

 
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