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Justin Kenrick
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Justin Kenrick posted an event'Nourishing Communities' Food Seminar - April 27th - Letham, Fife at Letham, Fife
April 27, 2010 from 10am to 4pm
You are invited to attend our ‘Nourishing Communities Food Seminar’ 10 – 4pm on 27th April in Letham Village Hall, Letham, Fife.The aim of this seminar is to directly contribute to a community engagement strategy by which Local Authorities (and Fife Council in particular) can help Communities to develop sustainable food systems.The day will include: community and local authority presentations, informal discussion and networking, a chance for participants to present their initiatives/ ideas, and…See More
ian mccall is attending Justin Kenrick's event
Connecting Communities - Transport Seminar: Thurs March 25th (10-3), Glenrothes at Glenrothes, Fife
March 25, 2010 from 10am to 3pm
On Friday March 12th we held an extremely well attended and productive seminar in Buckhaven, Fife, on 'Re-energising Communities'- in which people active in Fife Council and Fife communities focused on how to work together to reduce energy use and power up renewables. There were some unexpected convergences and clashes.This seminar on Thursday March 25th handles the far hotter topic of how to enable a real shift to sustainable transport.You are invited to join us and contribute to the design of…See More
Justin Kenrick posted a blog postseries of seminars on fire, last stop 'energy', next stop 'transport' . . .
On Friday March 12th a surprisingly well attended seminar - in Buckhaven, Fife, on 'Re-energising Communities' - brought people active in Fife Council and Fife communities together to work out how to reduce energy use and power up renewables. There were some unexpected convergences between council and communities, and some unexpectedly productive clashes between people from communities that are not yet active and climate active communities.The next seminar (in a series of 4) is on Thursday…See More
Justin Kenrick posted an eventConnecting Communities - Transport Seminar: Thurs March 25th (10-3), Glenrothes at Glenrothes, Fife
March 25, 2010 from 10am to 3pm
On Friday March 12th we held an extremely well attended and productive seminar in Buckhaven, Fife, on 'Re-energising Communities'- in which people active in Fife Council and Fife communities focused on how to work together to reduce energy use and power up renewables. There were some unexpected convergences and clashes.This seminar on Thursday March 25th handles the far hotter topic of how to enable a real shift to sustainable transport.You are invited to join us and contribute to the design of…See More
Justin Kenrick is attending Helen Lawrenson's event
Big Tent 2010 at Falkland, Fife
July 23, 2010 at 6pm to July 25, 2010 at 9pm
Scotland's environmental festival. Back for its 5th year. Workshops, exhibitions, debates, world & and folk music, culture, children's activities, local food village, camping.Zones this year are:Head Zone for debates, talks and poetryBody and Soul for alternative therapiesOne Planet Food VillageChildren's ActivitiesWild about WoodWild about CraftExhibitionsMarket Stallsoh and of course music - so far lined up include Aberfeldy, King Creosote, FOUND, Woodenbox and a Fistful of Fivers, Joe…See More
Justin Kenrick posted a blog post3 Days of Copenhagen Talks and Walks
Along with about 45,000 other people (including Paul Allen and many other bolgistas it would seem!) I've been at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen where the main negotiations and side events have been happening in a place capable of holding only 15,000 people (see Day One below). Then I joined 100,000 folk to march on the Bella Centre to demand real action now (see Day Two below). Finally I took part in an unexpected BBC debate and in our polite fut firm Academic Seminar Blockade (Day Three below)…See More
Justin Kenrick replied to Nick Wilding's discussion "Job-juggling" and multiple perspectives on resilience building in the group Resilience"Job-juggling as being resilient or over-stretched?!
. . . I say as I juggle responding to 4 boys in the flat, writing up research into community carbon reduction action in Fife ("Juuuussss, when will you stop working?" asks a friend of…"
Viv Lewis left a comment for Justin Kenrick"Thanks for the story and link - I'll send it on to the HOP group. Things are moving along, the local press has been great and we're doing a lot of lobbying. Next step is the the results of the counsultation process (v. poorly done).…"
Justin Kenrick replied to Nick Wilding's discussion Reflections/feedback on Resilience seminar, October 12th Carnegie UK Trust in the group Resilience"Ok! That was a really excellent seminar yesterday - thanks to all who came, and to Nick for organising/ facilitating.
For me, the meeting embodied the theme 'resilence as safety', "not safe as in cushions and everyone in agreement,…"
Justin Kenrick left a comment for Hilda Mariana Zara"Hi Hilda - am happy to send you the email of the student who has just completed a really excellent PhD on indigenous peoples communities resisting the oil industry in Ecuador and Peru - but don't want to just place her email on the web and…"
Justin Kenrick commented on Nick Wilding's group Resilience"That was an excellent seminar on Resilience yesterday - thanks to all who came, and to Nick for organising/ facilitating.
For me, the meeting embodied the theme: resilence as safety, "not safe as in cushions and everyone in agreement, but safe…"
Justin Kenrick left a comment for Viv Lewis"Viv,
I just noticed this extraordinary story about how suppliers get destroyed by Tesco's (and how this one refused!) and thought it might be of interest/ use:
http://www.lochfynelocalheroes.org.uk/10201.html
best, Justin"
Justin Kenrick joined Paul Allen's group
Zero Carbon Britain Think Tank
A space where FierySpirits can help CAT by peer reviewing various chapters of our up coming new ZeroCarbonBritian 2 report.
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- Welcome! FierySpirits is for activists and professionals who are building vibrant, resilient rural communities. Tell us a little about why you'd like to join?
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These look like just the people, the issues and the processes I am passionate about - so I'm joining you in practice rather than just in spirit (something necessitated by navigating a full time job alongside home and all the out-of-work-hours spent devoted to enabling local resilience).
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- About Me (areas of expertise/interest I can share)
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On Saturday I will be voluntarily leaving my full time permanent (sic) post as a lecturer in social anthropology at Glasgow University to concentrate my energies on the (unpaid) work of enabling the emerging/ persisting network of local resilience initiatives to reshape the structures of the state amd market and collective mindset so that they enable sustainable communities to persist, flourish, re-emerge.
Currently I am engaged in this process at three levels:
1. Locally in Portobello through the transition initiative we began in 2007(www.pedal-porty.org.uk);
2. Nationally through the Holyrood 350 campaign (www.holyrood350.org) which last week had a full house meeting in Parliament of people from all over Scotland who are actively working to reduce their communities carbon emissions; and
3. Globally through the networks of indigenous peoples and activist anthropologists (www.forestpeoples.org and also the Crabgrass collective based on Vancouver Island, Canada) working to defuse ongoing processes of colonisation which change their name but continue the work of colonisation, exploitationand destruction of the commons and our common life begun through the enclosures, the clearances and the subsequent use of the dispossessed in the colonisation of the world.
How do we multiply our effectiveness, how do we ally with all those caught in believing change is impossible, how do we support wach other when we give up, how do we look the destruction of peoples and other beings lives in the eye, how do we dance and party and hope and care?
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series of seminars on fire, last stop 'energy', next stop 'transport' . . .
Posted on March 16, 2010 at 19:37 0 Comments 0 Likes
On Friday March 12th a surprisingly well attended seminar - in Buckhaven, Fife, on 'Re-energising Communities' - brought people active in Fife Council and Fife communities together to work out how to reduce energy use and power up renewables. There were some unexpected convergences between council and communities, and some unexpectedly productive clashes between people from communities that are not yet active and climate active communities.
The next seminar (in a series of 4) is on… Continue
The next seminar (in a series of 4) is on… Continue
3 Days of Copenhagen Talks and Walks
Posted on December 15, 2009 at 11:29 1 Comment 0 Likes
Along with about 45,000 other people (including Paul Allen and many other bolgistas it would seem!) I've been at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen where the main negotiations and side events have been happening in a place capable of holding only 15,000 people (see Day One below). Then I joined 100,000 folk to march on the Bella Centre to demand real action now (see Day Two below). Finally I took part in an unexpected BBC debate and in our polite fut firm Academic Seminar Blockade (Day Three below)… Continue
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 15:49 on October 13, 2009, Viv Lewis said…
- Thanks for the story and link - I'll send it on to the HOP group. Things are moving along, the local press has been great and we're doing a lot of lobbying. Next step is the the results of the counsultation process (v. poorly done). We'll see.....
- At 9:40 on March 30, 2009,
Nick Wilding said… - hi justin
welcome into fieryspirits... could I encourage you to elaborate a little on your profile - plays an important role in helping everyone get a sense of who's here. Maybe you could mention your work at pedal, 350 campaign and canada connections? Thanks!
Nick
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