I’ve just been booking my place at the Steady State Conference in Leeds this morning. I’ll be going along, scouting for material for the Beyond Growth site as well as this one. If anyone else is going, let me know and we can meet up for lunch. It’s the 19th of June, at the Rose Bowl at Leeds University, with CASSE, Andrew Simms, Kate Pickett, Tim Jackson and others.
While I’m talking events, there are a couple of other good ones to look out for in the next month. The Transition Conference is the weekend of the 12-14th of June. It’s residential this time, at Seale Hayne agricultural college near Totnes, Devon. Rob Hopkins will be introducing his plans for a ‘pattern language’ for transition. I know a little bit about pattern language, and applying it to Transition is a fascinating concept.
Competing with the transitioners is the Compass Conference for 2010. It’s on Saturday 12th June and claims to be the biggest annual gathering of progressive activists. “Things have to change” says the flyer. “The planet burns, the poor get poorer, a rich elite get ever wealthier, and our democracy is in a sad, broken state. The rules of the game must be rewritten. We need a new progressive consensus, and a new hope.” Sounds good, and there are over 90 different speakers and 40 different organisations involved, including the Electoral Reform Society, the Equality Trust, nef, and the Jubilee Debt Campaign.
The Earthbound Report 