My coronavirus dilemma – weighing crises against each other?

by Shaun Chamberlin | Mar 12, 2020 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Lean Logic, Out and about, Peak Oil, Surviving the Future, The Sequel, Transition Movement

So, we have a sold-out London event on Monday, launching our film, book and online course. And all week I’ve been agonising — with the others involved — about whether to cancel it or not, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of writing (Thursday...

OccupyTransition, or ‘this Halloween I dressed as the economy’

by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 5, 2011 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Economics, Favourite posts, Peak Oil, Politics, Transition Movement

This post was written for the Transition Network‘s Social Reporting project, and published there on Sunday 13th November. — Having been invited to be this week’s Social Reporting guest editor and introduce the theme of economics, the burgeoning...

All Party Parliamentary TEQs report launch

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jan 23, 2011 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Economics, Peak Oil, Politics, Reviews and recommendations, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas), Transition Movement

What a week – Tuesday’s launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil’s report into TEQs was a tremendous success, with excellent media coverage, including Time magazine, The Sunday Times, Bloomberg News, the BBC, the Financial Times and...

‘Grow Heathrow’ Eviction Threat! Our support needed

by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 24, 2010 | All Posts, Climate Change, Peak Oil, Transition Movement

The beautifully tended squatted community garden in Sipson, Heathrow has been served a court summons for eviction. On the 1st of March this year the neglected plot on the planned site of the third runway was reclaimed, and for the last six months the Transition...

LSE Complexity Seminar – audio and slides

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jul 7, 2010 | All Posts, Peak Oil, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

The slides and audio are now available from the seminar David Fleming and I gave at the London School of Economics last week. The topic was “Transition Towns and Tradable Energy Quotas: Frameworks to support a diversity of small-scale solutions to the...

Stoneleigh’s peak oil/finance talk at the Transition Conference

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jun 15, 2010 | All Posts, Economics, Favourite posts, Peak Oil, Transition Movement

This post was originally written by me as a guest post for Rob Hopkins’ Transition Culture blog, but I have kindly given myself permission to reproduce it here 😉 So here I am. I fully intended to be giving the England match my full attention right now, but...