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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…… Coming back to being indigenous to place in the Dart Valley

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…...

We are all indigenous to place. Some place we call home now, some plac...

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Christmas comes early for REconomy (and 2 Transition groups)!

Christmas comes early for REconomy (and 2 Tran...

We’re delighted to announce that the Transition Network’s REconomy...

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Martin Grimshaw on Transition Camp 2013, owls and “unStuff”

Martin Grimshaw on Transition Camp 2013, owls ...

Owls are brilliant. Where I’m from people are more accustomed to...

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Seasons greetings from Transition Network and celebrating 2013!

Seasons greetings from Transition Network and ...

Today we sign off for 2013.  We’re back on January 6th with our...

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Annie Leonard on stuff, “citizen muscle”, and what she’s giving this Christmas

Annie Leonard on stuff, “citizen muscle&...

What better way to close our month’s theme than to talk to Annie...

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Oliver James on ‘affluenza’, Love Bombing and strengthening our “emotional immune systems”

Oliver James on ‘affluenza’, Love ...

Over this month of looking at “stuff” from different angle...

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The November and December Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

The November and December Round-up of What’s...

We start this two-month round up with a remarkable tale from Chile, th...

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Adam Corner on the “adverts that want to be your friend”

Adam Corner on the “adverts that want to...

We’re all far too sensible to be influenced by advertising, righ...

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Bank of England takes note of local money

Bank of England takes note of local money

Last week the Bank of England published an article in its Quarterly Bu...

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Blessed are the PVC makers

Blessed are the PVC makers

Any sense of “we’re all in this together” appears to...

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Rupert Morrison on what the rebirth of vinyl tells us about “stuff”

Rupert Morrison on what the rebirth of vinyl t...

The Drift Record Shop describes itself as “an immaculately cura...

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When shock provides just the kick up the backside we need

When shock provides just the kick up the backs...

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that I never reall...

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Ruth Potts on the New Materialism

Ruth Potts on the New Materialism

Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called...

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How different would the world be if we paid the True Cost of food and farming?

How different would the world be if we paid th...

What would our food system look like if the impacts of production on t...

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Storyteller Steph Bradley on ‘Tales of our Times’, red flipflops and “stuff”

Storyteller Steph Bradley on ‘Tales of o...

What’s it like to set off, shod only in a pair of flip-flops, wi...

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How did the first ‘Transition Launch Online’ training go?

How did the first ‘Transition Launch Onl...

The first online version of the Transition Launch training just took p...

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Reimagining Santa’s Grotto: The Restart Project

Reimagining Santa’s Grotto: The Restart ...

The mental image we were brought up with of Santa’s workshop was...

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The day I closed my Amazon account

The day I closed my Amazon account

I’ve done it.  I’ve closed my Amazon account.  I now sta...

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December  2013 – Transition Network Newsletter

December 2013 – Transition Network News...

The Big Debate: how should Transition initiatives respond to austerity...

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Celebrating the marvel that is Transition Free Press

Celebrating the marvel that is Transition Free...

The fourth edition of Transition Free Press has just come out, and it ...

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Comms delivery group meeting report 2 December 2013

Comms delivery group meeting report 2 December...

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On delivery by drone, vinyl and our month of “stuff”

On delivery by drone, vinyl and our month of &...

For this month’s theme we’ll be exploring, in the run up t...

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Transition hits the road for two regional meetings

Transition hits the road for two regional meet...

Meetings with Initiatives. Transition network has recently employed a ...

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Web strategy update for board 29 November 2013

Web strategy update for board 29 November 2013

The web project is at a point where we are at the limits of our curren...

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Our Austerity Basics all in one placel!

Our Austerity Basics all in one placel!

Welcome to Transition Network’s Austerity Basics series.  Ever ...

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REconomy is recruiting a Trainer, ideally with fundraising skills

REconomy is recruiting a Trainer, ideally with...

We know that one of the main challenges faced by Transition Initiative...

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Frances Northrop on how Transition Town Totnes are responding to austerity

Frances Northrop on how Transition Town Totnes...

For our last piece in our month’s theme of austerity and how Tra...

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How Sustainable is Transition, Really?

How Sustainable is Transition, Really?

I’ve been thinking a lot in the past months about the question of su...

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The Big Debate: how should Transition initiatives respond to austerity?

The Big Debate: how should Transition initiati...

This month’s immersion in austerity has taken us in numerous dir...

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Web strategy update

Web strategy update

This is a brief outline with notes about where the Transition Network ...

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Transition Thrive training at University of St Andrews: a report

Transition Thrive training at University of St...

Naresh Giangrande of Transition Training reports on a Transition Thriv...

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Dr. Sarah Wollaston MP’s 7 thoughts on austerity

Dr. Sarah Wollaston MP’s 7 thoughts on a...

Sarah Wollaston, Conservative Member of Parliament for Totnes, is not ...

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Felicity Lawrence: How austerity’s “relentless drive to deregulate” impacts the food on our plate

Felicity Lawrence: How austerity’s ̶...

Felicity Lawrence is a food writer and Guardian investigative journal...

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Pam Warhurst: Food banks are “the first response, not the final response”

Pam Warhurst: Food banks are “the first resp...

Pam Warhurst is a community leader, activist and environment worker w...

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Starting tomorrow – Austerity Basics with James Meadway

Starting tomorrow – Austerity Basics wit...

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Brent’s Bumper Harvest Brings Tons of Local Fruit to Communities

Brent’s Bumper Harvest Brings Tons of Lo...

Fruit picking groups in Brent, north west London, have had a bumper ha...

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Funding for community renewables – but you’ll have to move fast!

Funding for community renewables – but y...

The Cabinet Office’s Centre for Social Action and the Department of ...

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What can we learn from the austerity of 1939-1945?

What can we learn from the austerity of 1939-1...

Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer and garden designer, a career ...

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Typhoon Hiayan: an Open Letter to Naderev Saño

Typhoon Hiayan: an Open Letter to Naderev Sañ...

Naderev Saño is head of the Philippines delegation to the UN climate...

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The September/October Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

The September/October Round-up of What’s Hap...

It’s a bumper roundup this month, as we’re doing 2 roundup...

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Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this is an energy civil war”

Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this i...

Jeremy Leggett’s new book ‘The Energy of Nations: risk bli...

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Melbourne Area Transition become landowners!

Melbourne Area Transition become landowners!

Here is a great story from Derbyshire.  Whistlewood Common Limited, t...

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Might your local food project qualify for the ‘A Team Challenge’?

Might your local food project qualify for the ...

Every now and then a funding opportunity comes along which looks ideal...

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Mary Portas and the Golden Tickets of Dorking

Mary Portas and the Golden Tickets of Dorking

Here at Transition Network, we are always on the lookout for innovativ...

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An interview with Dr Tim Lang: “Dire times are one of the only moments when structures get laid bare”

An interview with Dr Tim Lang: “Dire tim...

When looking for insights into food, policy and politics, the first pl...

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Permaculture and Transition – shared challenges, shared possibilities: a talk in Northern California

Permaculture and Transition – shared cha...

The talk on my recent US tour that I enjoyed most was the one I gave a...

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Setting future dates for your blog posts

Setting future dates for your blog posts

It is possible to write your post and set the publication date for the...

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Your chance to learn how to do a REconomy Economic Evaluation for your local economy

Your chance to learn how to do a REconomy Econ...

The REconomy Project is running a training soon on how to do an Econom...

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An interview with Jason Roberts: “If we are experiencing austerity, create visions”.

An interview with Jason Roberts: “If we are ...

When I was in Houston, Texas recently, I was fortunate enough to meet,...

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Italy stages its first ‘Transition Fest’

Italy stages its first ‘Transition Fest&...

Transition Italy recently held the first gathering of Transitioners fr...

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Weebles Wobble but they don’t Fall Down

Weebles Wobble but they don’t Fall Down

  This guest blog is from Nicholas Raybould, who is one of the six st...

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How Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition are responding to austerity

How Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition are r...

One of the most inspiring Transition initiatives I visited in the US r...

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The power of Halloween and baking biscuits

The power of Halloween and baking biscuits

One of my favourite Twitter follows, @TwopTwips, tweeted, on the after...

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Imagination: an antidote to the plague of austerity

Imagination: an antidote to the plague of aust...

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination̷...

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November 2013 – Transition Network Newsletter

November 2013 – Transition Network Newsl...

We have several posts about Extreme Energy in the newsletter this mont...

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Job – Training and Events Co-ordinator

Job – Training and Events Co-ordinator

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TN – what are we here for? what should we do next?

TN – what are we here for? what should w...

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‘In Transition 2.0’ director visits Russia

‘In Transition 2.0’ director visit...

Emma Goude, director of ‘In Transition 1.0’ and ‘In ...

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Transition in a corporate setting, in Brazil

Transition in a corporate setting, in Brazil

Change makers program – How to help your workers transition to ...

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Comms delivery group meeting report 30 October 2013

Comms delivery group meeting report 30 October...

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