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A New World View - Naomi Klein in Totnes
Author of 'No Logo' and 'The Shock Doctrine and activist Naomi Klein recently visited Totnes to find out more about the Transition movement. She gave a talk looking at the various crises going on around the world, the challenges ahead and the opportunities that you can see online here:
http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/25/naomi-klein-in-totnes-the-movie/
At the end of Klein's visit Rob Hopkins interviewed her. In part one she says that our “… world view is killing us and needs to be replaced with another world view…” while in part two she emphasised that “we must address inequality if we’re going to deal with climate change”: [1] http://bit.ly/fFhxL0 [2] http://bit.ly/gAavHt
The End Of Growth - Richard Heinberg in Totnes
Author of "The Party's Over" and leading peak oil educator, Richard Heinberg recently gave talk in Totnes about the future of our 'growth' society. The talk can be viewed online:
http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/11/something-for-the-weekend-r...
During his visit, Heinberg was interviewed jointly by Rob Hopkins, Ben Brangwyn of Transition Network and Frances Northrop of Transition Town Totnes. “I think 2011 is going to be an interesting year… in the Chinese sense…” he said.
Interview part one: http://bit.ly/heinberg-part1
Interview part two: http://bit.ly/heinberg-part2
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Thanks for posting these-helps keep us up to date.
Sharon
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