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Meet Mike our new Initiative Support Coordinator and his new support overview page.

Hi everyone 🙂 My name is Mike and I am the new Transition Initiativ...

Zenrainman on the rooftop paddy fields of Bangalore

I was recently in Amsterdam at an event at which one of the other spea...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.7: Ann Owen

When Rob asked me to recount my “Stepping up” moment, I immediatel...

Letter to the BBC – talking about Climate Change

An Open Letter to the BBC on Lord Lawson’s Today Programme appearance

To Jamie Angus, the Editor, Today Programme. Dear Jamie, I am writing...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.6: Pauline Cory of Transition Town Worthing

In times of great uncertainty one needs to find an anchor and hope.  ...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.5: Gerd Wessling

Sometimes in a life a moment happens, when something in you – wh...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.4: Sally Elias of Transition Dorking

My ‘Step Up Moment’ came in the form of three questions that chall...

Reflecting on resources: the Transition Town Totnes ‘Reunion’

There’s a rather good programme on BBC Radio 4 called ‘The...

The February 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Posted here by accident.  You’ll actually find it here, where i...

Wayfinding

This guest blog is by Hayley Spann, who is a “partner” in ...

Rob Newman on the Power of Misfits

I recently saw Rob Newman’s one-man show ‘New Theory of Ev...

Comms delivery group meeting report 6 February 2014

[Written up by Ben Brangwyn and added to Ed’s stream for accessi...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.3: Alex Crowe

In 2006, Alex Crowe and his family went down the road to self sufficie...

Tina Clarke on resourcing your Transition initiative

Tina Clarke is a Transition Trainer and more recently a REconomy train...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.2: Isabela Menezes of Transition Granja Viana

I was leading a life that was not making sense at all and not making m...

Introducing a month on Resourcing your Initiative

This month we will be exploring the theme of resourcing your group.  ...

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.1: David Pitcher of Transition Finsbury Park

During February we’ll be hearing people’s ‘Step Up&#...

Ben Brangwyn on the scaling up of Transition internationally

In a guest post, Ben Brangwyn, Transition Network’s Internationa...

Andy Lipkis, the man taking on LA’s water system

We published a taster of this piece earlier in the week, introducing A...

Reflections on being a ‘Cultural Optimist’ and a month of scaling up

And so our month on ‘Scaling up’ draws to a close.  It ha...

Scaling up internationally

Scaling up – next week, the world! Introduction This is a little tal...

Can earth building scale up to the mainstream? 3: Robert Alcock on the power of keeping it small

Our recent post about Kevin McCabe’s ‘cob citadel’ a...

An Ecopoetic take on the power of Storms

Ecopoetry: a definition Ecopoetry goes several steps further than trad...

Lipkis on Holmgren: “Our job is to make viable the alternative and have it ready”

You know how sometimes someone will just put something you were thinki...

Sophy Banks on the risks of going for growth, and other ways to make an impact

Today we have a post from Sophy Banks, the first of what will become a...

Rosie Boycott on Capital Growth and scaling up urban agriculture

Rosie Boycott is the Chair of the London Food Board, working for the ...

How to discuss Transition with … No.5: Church groups

The challenge How might Transition initiatives most skilfully approach...

Film review: ‘Local Food Roots’

The growth of the local food sector over the last 20 years has been re...

Josué Dusoulier asks “why not use a regional support team as a strategy for scaling up?”

What Transition initiatives do is just fantastic. We see “little bud...

Les Robinson on Changeology, scaling up, and solutions that “stick”

One of the books I read recently which had useful insights to offer fo...

6 reasons why there’s no community in fracking

This month we’ve been looking at the potential of scaling up Tra...

How to discuss Transition with … No.4: Local government

The challenge One of the keys to scaling up Transition will be a healt...

How to discuss Transition with … No.3: Young People

The challenge How might Transition be made more interesting, relevant ...

The January 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Due to Christmas, things have been a bit quiet on the Transition front...

Can earth building scale up to the mainstream? 1: ClayWorks and clay plasters

Academic Gill Seyfang wrote in 2009 in a piece about natural building...

Can earth building scale up to the mainstream? 2: Kevin McCabe’s cob citadel

As part of our month’s exploration of the theme of ‘scalin...

How to discuss Transition with … No.2: MPs and Civil Servants

As Transitioners, what’s the most skilful way to approach decisi...

Holmgren’s ‘Crash on Demand’: be careful what you wish for

It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren.  One of m...

Nick Temple on scaling up social innovations

The Transition movement isn’t the first idea/movement to grow ra...

Eradicating cancer as a route to scaling up Transition? Discuss

Today I want to present you with an idea which has the potential to re...

A rather odd dream I had about scaling up

I went to a conference once where at the beginning of each day, for th...

Feedback from Transition Launch onLine

Doria Robinson on scaling up community resilience in the shadow of Chevron

When I was in the US in October I met Doria Robinson, Executive Direct...

Winds of Change – living with climate change

As climate change becomes more of a lived reality it can feel increasi...

Comms delivery group meeting report 7 January 2014

How to discuss Transition with … No.1: Conservatives/Republicans

When I visited the US recently, I met Chris Prelitz, and heard his sto...

The 5 factors that will enable Transition to scale up

Our theme for January is ‘Scaling Up’.  There is no route...

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

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

Seasons greetings from Transition Network and celebrating 2013!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed are the PVC makers

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

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

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

When shock provides just the kick up the backside we need

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

Ruth Potts on the New Materialism

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

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

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

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

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

Reimagining Santa’s Grotto: The Restart Project

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