8 September 2019

Implementing the ecological transition : the example of Totnes in the United Kingdom.

The small town (8,000 inhabitants) located in Devon has the ambition to be autonomous from the point of view of food and energy by 2030.

Combating packaging and waste, fair and independent business, short food chains and conviviality, organic farming, local currency and training are the many initiatives and practices adopted in Totnes over the last ten years or more, inspired in particular by Rob Hopkins initiator of the cities in transition movement.

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To know more :

Watch:

- Mula, E., Transition Town Totnes: where we've come from, 2016.

Read:

1. •Siegle, L., Totnes: Britain's town of the future, The Guardian, 2011.
   

2. •Transition Town Totnes (TTT), Website.
   

3. •Transition network Website.
   

4. •Rob Hopkins Website.
   

Listen (in French) :

Totnes, en Grande-Bretagne : ville modèle pour la transition écologique ? France culture 2019.

Rob Hopkins, le champion des Villes en Transition ! France culture 2017.

Selection of recent articles on hungerexplained.org related to the topic:

1. •Life plagued by human madness: we must change our paradigms, objectives and values, 2019.
   

2. •Policies for a transition towards more sustainable and climate friendly food systems, 2018.
   

3. •Food and climate change : it is up to us, as consumers and producers, to change our food system, 2018.
   

4. •Are existing food and agricultural policies supportive to local sustainable food systems? 2015.

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