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| Initial briefing for the session |
13 Sept: DNC writes: Tina Holt and DavidNC and Kate Troy and Julie Lygo from
Transition West Bridgford took a short ride to Derby to take part in a
Transition Derby meeting, with
Rob Hopkins as a main speaker. There were delegates from all over the Midlands, Birmingham, Wirksworth, Lincoln, Nottingham to name ones that I noticed.
The evening began with some audience participation exercises, such as talking to neighbours, and writing ideas onto post-it notes. I was most impressed at the effectiveness of this ice breaking process.
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Sorting out the post-it notes
and selecting discussion topics. |
The notes were all collected in and were organised into distinctive groupings, such as
Power generation and conservation, Food, Transport issues, Waste recycling, Social Skills, Events, Group organisation etc. Volunteers were found to chair a 35 minute discussion group for each of the main topics, after which there was a reporting back. I am sure some of the ideas will appear on Transition Derby's website eventually. Then we had some vegetarian dinner and home made cakes.
The rest of the evening was a lecture from
Rob Hopkins from
Totnes who started the
Transition movement in the UK (it is now becoming global). I took notes and will try to summarise his lecture in a later posting.
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