Loads and Loads of really great short audios from the Transition Conference 2009 are found on Trayradio podcasts, thanks to Carl Munson.

The RSS feed is found at Traydio podcasts for user Transition Podcast.

Heres a few good ones:

Conference officially open!

Goude Work – it’s a standing ovation for the Transition Movie (1.0)

Ed Miliband talks to Peter Lipman and Rob Hopkins of the Transitio… (UK minister for energy invited as a “Guest Listener…. you have to love the funniness of it all)

Ensuring & Maximising Diversity in Transition with Tina Clarke

Quick word from Rob Hopkins

post on P.IE http://www.politics.ie/economy/67449-should-ireland-plan-zero-oil-2.html#post1644984

Audio info: length: 60mins, format: MP3, language: Spanish

info @ audio
http://radio.indymedia.org/es/node/17061

info @ content:

- http://barcelona.indymedia.org/calendari/displayevent/3034/index.php
- http://global-ecoforum.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2251574%3AEvent%3A3666

1 – the TT network (transition town) has Spanish translated part of its wiki for the spanish communities, not sure yet how much, if any, there are

2- “Something Wonderful Just Happened in Somerset” : Somerset County Council voted unanimously to endorse a motion that they become the UK’s first ‘Transition Local Authority’

3 – Upcoming Transition Cities Conference: Nottingham, England, November 27th -28th 2008

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1 – the TT network (transition town) in Spanish:
http://comunidadsinpetroleo.com/TNESP/index.html/

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2 Something Wonderful Just Happened in Somerset

Last week, Somerset County Council voted unanimously to endorse a motion that they become the UK’s first ‘Transition Local Authority’. What is means is that SCC could start taking an integrated approach to its planning processes, putting peak oil and climate change at the heart of its forward planning. It may well also unlock funds for the many Transition initiatives emerging across Somerset. The proposal put before the Council ran as follows….

From http://transitionculture.org/2008/07/28/something-wonderful-just-happened-in-somerset/

And Somerset (UK) County Council resolution endorsing Transition Town movement: http://postcarboncities.net/node/3319

From PDF doc: http://www.somerset.gov.uk/council/board1/2008 July 23 Summary of Decisions.pdf

See more on somerset county council website: http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/

The Council RESOLVED to adopt the following resolution:

That this Council

1. acknowledges the work done by communities in Somerset on Transition Towns and that the independence of the Transition Movement is key to its grass roots appeal

2. as demonstrated in its Climate Change Strategy, fully endorses the Transition Town Movement and subscribes to the principles and ethos of the organisation’s goals to reduce dependence on fuel oil and create more sustainable communities

3. commits to providing support and assistance to all towns in Somerset that wish to join this initiative to help them achieve the goals they set for themselves as local communities, as demonstrated under the ‘Community Initiatives’ section of the Climate Change Strategy

4. therefore, requests the Scrutiny and Executive Committees to consider through the council’s strategic planning process:

- allocating funds to assist in achieving the outcomes of the Transition Towns Movement in Somerset.

- requiring all directorates to engage with and provide support for Transition Initiatives in Somerset

5. through the work outlined above, seeks to become the first Transition Authority in the UK

6. agrees to undertake a review of its budgets and services to achieve a reduction in dependence on fuel oil and produce an energy descent action plan in line with the principles of the Transition Initiative

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Transition Cities Conference: a vital event for all urban Transitioners
Transition Nottingham on November 27th -28th 2008
http://transitionculture.org/2008/10/17/transition-cities-conference-a-vital-event-for-urban-transitioners/

in recent mail to eco activists in BCN:

Not sure if its going to be streamed, will inquire, we could make a short powerpoint presentation and submit it, even a message of things we are hoping to do, or, by 1 month, things we are doing…

A message of hope, how the idea is taking off, this gives huge lift to people, when news comes in from other countries and places…

Also, recently rob Hopkins, rather than using carbon to physically get to a conference, prepared his speech and emailed it to them: http://transitionculture.org/2007/09/14/peak-oil-transition-towns-and-resilience-building-my-talk-to-the-ifg-teach-in/

I think they would be on for such a type of communication action, even if we cant all fully work together virtually, YET, we can take little steps to try to get there, its only a matter of time till it is the norm!!!

- Stream out, we listen
- Many Streams in, they listen to views / experiences from other cities
- 2 way streams: dialogues are enabled. Mixing online and physical and archive, enables multi channel (and possibly languages) forums, and later anyone interested can access the different stories on archived library

This is an example of becoming eco-literate… how we learn to communicate again with each other, without costing the earth