At 14:00 CET the British documentary film In Transition opened yesterday’s discourse programme Change! and showed examples of the worldwide Transition Movement, which is still quite unknown in Austria. Instead of waiting for a change coming from national politics, the inhabitants are working on their own to reorganize their cities and communities. Their goal is to fight the climate change and the danger of peak oil with creative, positive ideas, which work on a local level.

The following workshop Transition Austria tried to clarify in what way this concept could be implemented in Austria.

In order to delve even further into this topic, Rob Hopkins was talking about the urgently needed change of energy production and explained the concept behind the 250 Transition Towns worldwide. An audio download of the talk is available here.

Thereafter the panel discussion Good food for everyone? raised the question, if it is even possible to buy the right things in a world with a wrong economical system. Many companies stress their responsibility for environment, but use this image in order to sell eco-lifestyle-products, which damage just that environment. Among others Kathrin Hartmann, Irmi Salzer and Franziskus Forster were discussing this paradox. An audio download is available here.

In contrast to eco-illusions evoked by major corporations the concluding documentary film The 4^th Revolution – Energy Autonomy showed real solutions for a sustainable change.

At 20:00 CET the new format Elevate Music Talks started. De Babalon, Pursuit Grooves and Oneohtrix Point Never discussed about their individual approaches to music production and their adoption of ideas.

At the same time the music and literature programme began and offered artists like Oswald Egger, Christof Dienz, Mount Kimbie, Claro Intelecto, Joy Orbison and many more.

Here are photos of the second festival day.

A video roundup of the opening event is available, too.

Here the newspaper Kleine Zeitung is covering the second day of the festival.

At 14:00 CET the British documentary film In Transition opened yesterday’s discourse programme Change! and showed examples of the worldwide Transition Movement, which is still quite unknown in Austria. Instead of waiting for a change coming from national politics, the inhabitants are working on their own to reorganize their cities and communities. Their goal is to fight the climate change and the danger of peak oil with creative, positive ideas, which work on a local level.

The following workshop Transition Austria tried to clarify in what way this concept could be implemented in Austria.

In order to delve even further into this topic, Rob Hopkins was talking about the urgently needed change of energy production and explained the concept behind the 250 Transition Towns worldwide. An audio download of the talk is available here.

Thereafter the panel discussion Good food for everyone? raised the question, if it is even possible to buy the right things in a world with a wrong economical system. Many companies stress their responsibility for environment, but use this image in order to sell eco-lifestyle-products, which damage just that environment. Among others Kathrin Hartmann, Irmi Salzer and Franziskus Forster were discussing this paradox. An audio download is available here.

In contrast to eco-illusions evoked by major corporations the concluding documentary film The 4^th Revolution – Energy Autonomy showed real solutions for a sustainable change.

At 20:00 CET the new format Elevate Music Talks started. De Babalon, Pursuit Grooves and Oneohtrix Point Never discussed about their individual approaches to music production and their adoption of ideas.

At the same time the music and literature programme began and offered artists like Oswald Egger, Christof Dienz, Mount Kimbie, Claro Intelecto, Joy Orbison and many more.

Here are photos of the second festival day.

A video roundup of the opening event is available, too.

Here the newspaper Kleine Zeitung is covering the second day of the festival.