<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Michael<div><br></div><div>I think it is the writer of the article who thinks the name is bureaucratic-sounding. Certainly the Transition manual does not take that view...it recommends OS to all transition towns...</div><div>Cliodhna </div><div><br></div><div><div>Cliodhna Mulhern</div><div>flowstone</div><div>Mobile : 07929328513 </div><div>Phone : 01244.312758</div><div>Email : <a href="mailto:cliodhna@flowstone.org.uk">cliodhna@flowstone.org.uk</a></div><div>Skype : cliodhnamulhern</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 20 Apr 2009, at 16:29, Michael Herman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">found this reference a bit shocking... when's the last time you heard ost described as "bureaucratic"????<br clear="all"> <br>this from page two of the article, as posted online...<br><i><br>The Transition Handbook reads like an imaginative take on a corporate-management text. It recommends techniques for building consensus, from bureaucratic-sounding protocols like Open Space Technology to an exercise in which people decorate a potato like a superhero. “The Transition model,” the founder of one English Transition Town explained to me, “provides a structure, a foundation for organizing.” And along with Transition’s emphasis on hopefulness over fear, this rigorous playbook seems to set it apart from earlier grass-roots crusades.</i><br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?pagewanted=2">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?pagewanted=2</a><br><br>maybe we already had some talk here about transition town stuff? wonder what this manual might have done to make ost sound bureaucratic.<br> <br>m<br><br><br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates<br><br><a href="http://www.michaelherman.com">http://www.michaelherman.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ronanparktrail.com">http://www.ronanparktrail.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org">http://www.chicagoconservationcorps.org</a><br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org">http://www.openspaceworld.org</a><br><br>312-280-7838 (mobile)<br> * * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Cliodhna Mulhern</div><div>flowstone</div><div>Mobile : 07929328513</div><div>Phone : 01244.312758</div><div>Email : <a href="mailto:cliodhna@flowstone.org.uk">cliodhna@flowstone.org.uk</a></div><div>Skype : cliodhnamulhern</div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>*
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