400 Fruit trees points towards Paradise

A grubby "Paradise Found"? You will read about Transition on this blog quite often. It refers to the movement that is backing away from a fossil-fuel based shallow extreme consumer society towards a sustainable, renewable energy based one with local economies, community and local production being favoured. Globalisation may have some benefits but ultimately is proving to be more trouble than it is worth!

This inspiring six minute film, about the planting of a new orchard in Ireland captures part of the essence of what Transition is all about. Lovely background music too - watch the 400 Fruit Trees project in County Kilkenny and relax just a little bit.

400 Fruit Trees Project, Kilkenny from Future Proof Kilkenny on Vimeo.

Two films to see - In Transition and The Age of Stupid

The first embedded clip is a trailer for the film "In Transition". The J-Can network (Jersey climate action network) click this link are thinking of showing this film as a counterpoint to the horror story that is "The age of Stupid" that we are also probably going to show locally. "In Transition" shows how we can move away from a fossil fuel based economy and, in the process, maybe get back a lot of things that we have rather lost sight of in recent years.



I already mentioned "The age of Stupid" in this previous post http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com/2009/03/age-of-stupid-is-new-movie-from.html. It is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

This clip is a trailer for the film although it's a bit confusing unless you know what it's about already!