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My foreword for “The Future We Deserve” – out now

My foreword for “The Future We Deserve” – out now

by Shaun Chamberlin | Mar 3, 2012 | All Posts, Cultural stories, Favourite posts, Reviews and recommendations

Untitled piece by Maria Elvorith (from the cover of TheFWD)The Future We Deserve, a collaborative book project edited by Vinay Gupta, Cat Lupton and Noah Raford, is available today. It can be read in full, downloaded or bought in hard copy here. I contributed one of...
Uncivilisation, 19-21 August 2011.  See you there?

Uncivilisation, 19-21 August 2011. See you there?

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jul 23, 2011 | All Posts, Cultural stories, Reviews and recommendations, The Transition Timeline, Transition Movement

As regular readers will know, I am an admirer of the Dark Mountain Project – fellow adventurers in uncovering and reshaping the cultural stories that define us and guide our behaviour. Their manifesto is well worth a read. So I have accepted this contribution...
Revolution – RapNews #7, feat. Bono

Revolution – RapNews #7, feat. Bono

by Shaun Chamberlin | Mar 30, 2011 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Favourite posts, Politics, Reviews and recommendations

Robert Foster’s brilliant Rap News makes it onto Dark Optimism for the second time, with a comment on recent events featuring the likes of Hugo Chavez, Glenn Beck, Bono (“Tell China to end first world debt”) and John Pilger, as well as footage from...
The Intergalactic Health & Safety Inspectorate

The Intergalactic Health & Safety Inspectorate

by Shaun Chamberlin | Feb 11, 2011 | All Posts, Cultural stories, Reviews and recommendations, The Transition Timeline, Transition Movement

The brilliant cartoonist Marc Roberts (whose work will be familiar to regular Dark Optimism readers) got in touch with the Transition Network last year offering to produce a strip exploring the Transition concept. The time has come for the results to be unleashed on...
All Party Parliamentary TEQs report launch

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...
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