The Age of Stupid 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?

The Age of Stupid Global Premiere Trailer from Age of [...]

RadioNZ’s Sunday Morning interview re: Transition Towns. (Audio below): http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20090607 - has: “10:06 The Sunday Group: Transition Towns Taking Root
Transition Towns are spreading around New Zealand as communities face the prospect of dwindling oil reserves, an unstable climate and unpredictable food production. These are  communities that are rolling up their sleeves and taking practical action [...]

The TT NZ site has been updated. If you’re not part of Transition Towns Kapiti check out http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz/. If you are check it out anyway.
Also, as part of the promotion of the new Australasian edition of The Transition Handbook Gabrielle Young, Rob Hopkins and James Samuel will be on Chris Laidlaws morning show this Sunday.

Transition Towns Kapiti invites you to an informative Documentary. We will be showing
End of Suburbia
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the Western Dream

Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the Western Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal [...]

http://transitionculture.org/2009/05/21/the-powerdown-show-now-available-heret/
http://www.cultivate.ie/learning/powerdown/

Increasingly there is a need, just like in Kapiti, to have more access for walkers and cyclists. Limiting roads to cars and building new roads indicates very real lack of attention to reality when it comes to peak oil and climate change.
Read more here…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10574280&ref=rss
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10574283

by Andrew Rundle-Keswick April 2009 at KCDC Sustainable Home and Garden show
Andrew Rundle-Keswick talks on “What is Transition Towns?”; Some History of TT in New Zealand and discussion of problems facing the world and and urging for action.
Part 1

Part 2

The Powerpoint Presentation to download.
http://ttk.org.nz/files/What_is_TTK.ppt

Writing articles from the future in an attempt to get people to see beyond the next few years.
http://ft2020.com/

We will be showing

Garbage Warrior

The Earthships Architect

The epic story of radical Earthship eco architect Michael Reynolds, and his fight to build off-the-grid self-sufficient communities. What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing [...]