AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Transition town are grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability through localization strategies, especially around food production and energy usage. In 2005, the founding of Transition Town Totnes became an inspiration for other groups to form.
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HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
JONATHAN TAYLOR is fascinated by the philosophical problems that permeate the art of life-writing
GORDON PARSONS steps warily in between the lines of Britain’s most famous diarist
SIMON DUFF recommends a recording of Arvo Part that takes the listener on a pilgrimage through seemingly distant times and events of the Bible
Transformative Adaptation: Another World Is Still Just Possible
Rupert Read and Morgan Phillips, with Manda Scott, Permanent Publications, £10.95
IN 2024 the Guardian polled hundreds of leading climate scientists, finding almost 80 per cent expected at least 2.5°C of global heating by 2100, with almost half anticipating at least 3°C.
According to top climate scientist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, a 3°C world will be “full of horrors” and “an existential threat to human civilisation.”
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
