Posted by: sorafferty on: October 3, 2008
There has been a renewed groundswell on local sustainability discussions and actions on food, economics, communication and mobility. The transition towns movement seems to be an amalgamation of a lot of previous strands of grassroots activity. I still see conflicts in the localism vs. globalism strands of debate. I can’t help but feel the localist [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: September 30, 2008
During the London Design Festival I took a break from the city to visit Brighton and the 360 Degrees “Charting New Territory in Sustainable Design Education” seminar. This was part of the DEEDS program of events spread out over the weekend.
There was always the risk that it would be a spiral of navel-gazing among design [...]
