The twin specters of climate change and peak oil are offering us an “open moment.” In the face of an unknowable future, what stories will we tell to open a way forward? This was the question that seventeen storytellers from six different countries gathered at Emerson College to explore under the gentle guidance of AshleyContinue reading “Transition Tales at Emerson College”
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Scottish Biodiversity Stories
An on-line project hosted by the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh and sponsored by Scottish Natural Heritage provides a searchable data base of audio and textual stories and information about Scottish species. The sources for these stories, and story-material, vary from interviews with elders, to scientific documents, to Scottish literature, to collections of traditional andContinue reading “Scottish Biodiversity Stories”
Transition Tales in Totnes: Imagining A Positive Low-Energy Future
Transition Town Totnes, in the south of England, has also hitched story to imagination in an effort to change the course of their community’s future. Seeking creative ways of coping with the twin specters of peak oil and climate change, they have hosted a series of storytelling workshops with adults and children both in schoolsContinue reading “Transition Tales in Totnes: Imagining A Positive Low-Energy Future”
Restorying the Earth 