Wakey Wakey!!!

Been a bit slack here of late, but active offline. Attended the first "Transition City London" event on Tuesday this week at the LARC (London Action Resource Centre) in Whitechapel.

It's still hard to see how this would work on a city wide scale, especially in a city on the scale of London. A general feeling is that dividing the city by its boroughs would be an appropriate approach - which does split the city into more manageable sized units and works with rather than against pre-existing social and political structures. However London boroughs are also quite large units (too large?) and I wonder how identified Londoners are with their borough per se. Many Londoners live in one borough, work in another and perhaps socialise in one or more others... Well this is all stuff that needs to be worked through.

Meanwhile Transition Town Brixton is off the starting blocks, Sustainable Haringey is looking at Transition Culturing and if this stuff happens organically and from any grass roots level at all it's going to work much better.

Anyway here's some of the brainstorming over what a sustainable London might look like:


Excitingly there's also a UK wide tour of events "Wakey! Wakey!" trying to raise consciousness about Peak Energy just kicking off, learn more about it here.

ALSO: New FLICKR slide show of my photos in the sidebar ->
I've got other Permaculture related photos on the Naturewise FLICKR site.