The Catalan Integral Cooperative

IN THIS EBOOK by Sydney limits-to-growth thinker, Dr Ted Trainer, he reports on the Catalan Integral Co-operative in Spain.

” …the Catalan Integral Cooperative provides us with an inspiring demonstration of what can be done and what we need”, he … Read More

Your oil wake-up call

If the economic return on oil production is declining, what does it mean for our economies? Guest writer, Dr Ted Trainer, issues a warning…Read More

Localisation, Transition Towns… good ideas but fundamentally flawed?

Philosopher and limits to growth advocate, Dr Ted Trainer, critiques a book critical of localisation but admits that there are conceptual problems with localism and Transition Towns thinking…Read More

A day with Ted

TED TRAINER — for those who might not have heard of him, Ted’s the man who taught sustainability before it became a social movement… he’s the man who taught limits to growth at university before it became the reality it … Read More

The Trainer papers… 1

In late 2009,  Dr Ted Trainer published a critique of the Transition and permaculture movements. This is reproduced here.

Ted works in the School of Social Work at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of a number of visionary books on sustainability such as The Conserver Society and The Simpler Way and has a small property at Pigface Point in suburban Sydney where he has built a number of intermediate technologies.

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The Trainer Papers… 2

Here’s my response to Ted Trainer’s original article.

Thanks to the organised Greg Olsen from Transition Sydney for having the foresight to file the thing.

Ted’s paragraphs quote straight from his work and are followed by my responses denoted by RG:.

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The Trainer papers… 3

This is Ted Trainer’s response to my comments on his critique of the Transition and permaculture movements.

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