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From Burnout to Balance: Co-creating cultures of collective and self-care; a new Transition residential workshop
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Wild Food
Rob Hopkins comes across something rather delicious in a Devon forest...
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On the road...
Rob Hopkins recently visited Wuppertal and Essen in Germany, seeing Transitions on various scales...
Read his write-up here >>

Our new theme: 'From the Archive'

Bill Mollison RIP 

We honour and mourn the passing of the co-founder of the Permaculture movement, Bill Mollison, who passed away on Saturday 24th September, with our blog from 2013 'Bill Mollison and one of my key ‘Doing Stuff’ moments'. 

Check it out here.

On becoming a hop farmer.

Rob Hop. 

Rob Hopkins celebrates his first year of growing hops for a local brewery's Hop Club, and the possibilities it opens up...

Read more here.

Activity of the Fortnight

Transition Chesterfield's Potato Day.  

Planning and putting on events: what are the keys to your Transition events being a success?  Been looking for a checklist to ensure your events run as smoothly as possible?  It's all gathered here in this selection from our Support Offer. 

Step-by-step guide here.

New REconomy Guides published

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Two new REconomy guides have just been published: The UK REconomy Project's 'The Do-Ocracy Handbook: organisational types and legal structures', and Transition US's '25 Enterprises that build resilience'.  

Download the UK guide here, and the US one here. 

Transition Network is seeking new Trustees

 

Transition Network is looking for three new Trustees/Directors, including a Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees.  Closing Date: 29th September 2016.

Read more here.

Review and Competition: 'Born on Third Base'

Chuck Collins 

We review Chuck Collins' new book 'Born on Third Base', and you can win a copy in our Collins-themed competition! 

Read more here.

Latest Transition Culture blog post

Mushrooms

"A crowd, a host of golden Chanterelles": my wild mushroom initiation

I did indeed wander “o'er vales and hills”, although not “as lonely as a cloud” - I was with my son, on a Sunday afternoon walk.  Whereas Wordsworth wrote “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils”, it was an entirely different golden host that we came across:...
Read Rob's blog post: ""A crowd, a host of golden Chanterelles": my wild mushroom initiation "