Transition Culture

On 23rd April 2012 we were honoured to be able to speak to Lord Deben, otherwise known as John Selwyn Gummer, former Minister of Agriculture, about the Atmos campaign.

This is the session at the end of the evening where people could gave feedback and asked questions about the Atmos Totnes campaign.

At the Atmos Totnes public meeting, Sara Neuff of Coin Street Community Builders spoke about why Atmos Totnes matters in the national context.

At the Atmos Totnes public meeting, Cllr Jill Tomalin gave a sense of how Atmos fits in with the wider debates around planning in the town.

At the Atmos Totnes public meeting, Andrew Kirby of LED Architects gave an overview of thinking so far in terms of the design work on the Atmos project.

Dave Chapman of Locality, and Ed Vidler of Totnes Development Trust speaking at the Atmos Totnes public meeting about the story so far, how the Atmos Totnes project got to where it is today.

Cllr Pruw Boswell, who co-ordinated the campaign to protect the Brunel building from demolition in 2007/8 speaks at the Atmos Totnes public meeting about the campaign and about people power.

At the Atmos Totnes public meeting on April 17th 2012, the Mayor of Totnes, Cllr. Judy Westacott gave the official opening for the event.

Amanda Richards is the manager of the Totnes Information Centre (http://www.totnesinformation.co.uk/).

Helen Lovell runs Moshulu, a shoe shop in Totnes High Street (http://www.moshulu.co.uk/locations/totnes).

Alice Crawford works with leather and canvas and is based at the Wakefield Studios.

Pete Ryland is involved in Totnes on the Move and set up the Totnes Rickshaw Company CIC (http://www.totnesrickshaws.co.uk/).

In this month's Transition podcast, we hear about Transition Guelph's 'Resilience Festival' (http://transitionguelph.org/), what Marsden and Slaithwaite Transition Towns (http://www.mastt.org.uk/) did with their LEAF funding, and what happened when Transition Belper (http://www.transitionbelper.org/) suggested turning a local car park into a vegetable garden.

Ness Turner is the co-proprietor of The Tangerine Tree Cafe in Totnes. http://www.tangerinetree.co.uk

Julian Wright is the outgoing Chair of the Totnes Traffic and Transport Forum and is currently setting up a community electric bikes scheme.

Lee Brain discusses the film of a testimony he gave at the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel in Prince Rupert on February 18, 2012 [http://youtu.be/1X3VynNZQaQ] and what happened afterwards.

Matt Criddle is the Director of NatureSave Insurance, who won the Queen's Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development in 2011. http://www.naturesave.co.uk/

In this interview, Lee Brain of Transition Prince Rupert shares his thoughts on how to engage more young people in Transition.

How was the idea of the Atmos campaign received at the recent Social Enterprise Exchange, the world's largest social enterprise event? We spoke to Nick Temple, Director of Business and Enterprise at Social Enterprise UK, Michael Norton, founder of UnLtd, Teresa Burton of BuzzBank, Claire Carpenter of the Melting Pot in Edinburgh and Ian Tuckett, Director of Coin Street Community Builders.

In this interview, Lee Brain of Transition Prince Rupert gives the background to the initiative, and how the group taught itself the skills it needed to do Transition in its community.