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The day I closed my Amazon account

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

Comms delivery group meeting report 2 December 2013

Celebrating the marvel that is Transition Free Press

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

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

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

Transition hits the road for two regional meetings

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

Web strategy update for board 29 November 2013

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

Our Austerity Basics all in one placel!

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

Frances Northrop on how Transition Town Totnes are responding to austerity

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

How Sustainable is Transition, Really?

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

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

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

Web strategy update

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

Dr. Sarah Wollaston MP’s 7 thoughts on austerity

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

Transition Thrive training at University of St Andrews: a report

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

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

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

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

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

Starting tomorrow – Austerity Basics with James Meadway

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

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

Typhoon Hiayan: an Open Letter to Naderev Saño

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Setting future dates for your blog posts

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

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

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

Weebles Wobble but they don’t Fall Down

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

The power of Halloween and baking biscuits

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

How Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition are responding to austerity

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

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

Imagination: an antidote to the plague of austerity

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

Comms delivery group meeting report 30 October 2013

Transition in a corporate setting, in Brazil

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

10 Years After ‘The Party’s Over’: an interview with Richard Heinberg

While running the risk of sounding like a Hello! Magazine reporter, I ...

To boldly train where no trainer has trained before: a chat with May East

May East is the Transition trainer who reaches the parts that other tr...

Letter from America #5: Fermenting Change in Brew City

Milwaukee was the last stop on a tour that in 18 days had taken me to ...

Contract for Web and Communications Support role

Three month part time contract for Web and Communications support role...

Final report for Project Sharing Engine Project

The full report is in tables and stuff so please download it from the ...

Next Generation Leaders for ….. sshhh, don’t call it Sustainability!

At the beginning of the school year, and the start of a new year for S...

Letter from America #4: Five extraordinary days in California

California is vast, a nation in itself.  As a state, it actually is h...

IIRS management meeting after Lyons

Visiting La Cocina: cultivating food entrepreneurs

While in San Francisco, I visited La Cocina, a fantastic incubator for...

An interview with Paul Hawken: “We choose a path of regeneration”

I met up with Paul Hawken at the Where do we go from here conference ...

Letter from America #3: Something powerful stirs in Texas…

I grew up watching Dallas.  It’s a TV show with a lot to answer for...

Letter from America #2: Local action can change the world

I just reached the end of my first full week in the US, and to say it�...

Letter from America #1: New Orleans and reflections on “awesome”

Coming from England, one of my first impressions of the US is how the ...

Ben’s International blog #1: the early days

Introduction During the month of October, Rob is over in the US, catal...

Comms delivery group meeting report 2 October 2013

New report: Climate After Growth

Transition Network and Post Carbon Institute have just come together t...

Tina Clarke on the Joys of Discovering Effective Collaboration

In this guest blog, Transition trainer Tina Clarke, also of Transitio...

Transition Movement moves on a step: becoming a global family

I’m just back from a wonderful 4 day international meeting of the Tr...

The Big Debate: Is there a ‘Transition position’ on fracking?

During August, at the peak of the campaign against the fracking for na...

Viv Chamberlin-Kidd on the Permaculture Design Course that changed her life

In the final winning entry in our Transition Training competition, Vi...

Marie Lefebvre on the Power of Getting Organised

In the second winning entry from our “The Course That Changed My...

A lovely story from the Bristol Pound

Here’s a wonderful story from the Bristol Pound blog, which its ...

Sophy Banks on bringing that ‘being on holiday’ feeling into busy working life

Today we have a guest post from Sophy Banks, as many of us return to w...

Naresh Giangrande introduces the Transition Launch Online training

Transition Network’s Transition Launch training, the training de...

Jen Gale on the power of learning to sew

Over the next 3 days, we’ll be publishing the winners of our Tra...

The best course I ever did, and 11 Top Tips for creative teaching

Over the next few days we will be sharing the winning three stories in...

Hide Enomoto on the spread of Transition in Japan

Hide Enomoto is one of Transition’s true pioneers, who also happens ...

Tech maintenance meet 050913

An interview with Nafeez Ahmed: “This is an unprecedented opportunity”

One of the most illuminating voices in the British media at the moment...

Comms delivery group meeting report 3 September 2013