THE POTENTIAL WHAT IF TRANSITIONAL DEVELOPMENT

[Michael Grove]

... of an almost abandoned south west facing slope in Swindon, England in response to the Transition Towns initiative of Rob Hopkins, in the context of the fact that OUR DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree ... the tree breathes what we exhale ... when the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales ... so we have common destiny with the tree ...
as it communicates with other trees beneath our feet ...

FROM THIS, looking west in the autumn of 2005 - top terrace fruit trees to the north, Scottish raspberries and asparagus - thinking about all things organic, no-dig systems, permaculture, forest-gardening etc.
TO THIS in 2007

TO THIS ... in 2013

and as a result of [BE]ing able to retire early from paid employment, Blackcurrants, red currants, gooseberries, greengage, plum, pears and apples - on the upper northerly terrace of the three allotments, protecting the lower terraces and the scottish raspberries' second crop from autumn winds and cold and early frosts. These fruit trees also absorb much of the increasing levels of rainfall and prevent too much ground water flowing down the bedrock slope to the lower terraces...

TO THIS ... in 2016

As author Annie Murphy Paul puts it...

'The brain . . . does not make such a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.'

 

This research jibes with my own experience.

Rob Hopkins • FROM WHAT IF TO WHAT IS

[Michael Grove]

SO lest ME/WE forget ...

  ...never forgetting the advice and guidance that  

     DANIEL HANNAN - Member of the European

     Parliament, writing for The Telegraph provided

Open-mindedness does not come naturally. We are tribal creatures. Our instinct is to judge an idea, not by its intrinsic merits, but by whether we like the person advancing it. We have to be taught not to do this. Empiricism, reasoning, the scientific method – all these things are counterintuitive. They run up against the hunter-gatherer rules of thumb – what psychologists call the heuristics – that have been encoded in our DNA for over a million years. Enlightenment precepts need to be continuously drummed in. As Hannah Arendt once put it, “every generation, civilisation is invaded by barbarians – we call them ‘children’”.

The UK hosted Cop26 in Glasgow and retains the presidency until November 2022, giving it a vital role in driving international action.

[Michael Grove]

The UK hosted Cop26 in Glasgow and retains the presidency until November 2022, giving it a vital role in driving international action.