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1% local food?: Unveiling Transition Buxton’s Economic Resilience Study

January 14th saw the launch of a new Economic Resilience Study (follow...

One Minute Review: Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn.

Shelter, originally published in 1973, is one of my favourite books. ...

Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon

Christophe McGlade is a research associate in energy materials modelli...

Book review: “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. Really?

I first heard about Alex Epstein’s book ‘The Moral Case for Fossil...

How Transition Town Tooting convene through celebration and imagination

The words of the ‘Sankofa’ bird were written during one of many da...

How we got started: Transition Black Isle

The story of how Transition Black Isle got started is told by two foun...

The Transition Agony Aunt on how to talk about peak oil

“The Fierce Urgency of Now”: 3 days in Belgium

Something very powerful feels to me like it is starting to move.  I s...

Pamela Boyce Simms on convening faith groups

Pamela Boyce Simms is convener of the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub, whi...

The Transition Agony Aunt on reviving failed initiatives

“Dear Transition Agony Aunt.  What’s the best way to star...

Atmos Totnes and the Power to Convene

One of the most ambitious examples of The Power to Convene to come thr...

Could you live zero waste for a year? Jenny did…

Last month our theme was ‘Less is More’. We had one interv...

What does the Power to Convene look like in Stroud?

What does the Power to Convene look like in the work of Transition St...

Jules Peck introduces the Real Economy Lab

Recently Transition’s co-Founder Rob Hopkins responded to a critique...

How we got started: Transition Stratford

For most people, Stratford-upon-Avon is about Shakespeare and tourists...

The Transition Agony Aunt on Transition and co-housing

“We have been exploring the establishment of a co-housing projec...

Mapping the Transition Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand

Following the expansion of the Transition movement globally in the lat...

What makes a good mediator?

Part of the Power to Convene (our theme for January and February) is t...

How the BBC might hold the election to account, carbon-wise

How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition.

I had seen it in lots of different places. I’d seen it in the 30 peo...

The Transition Agony Aunt on when theme groups fail to form

One Minute Review: Behind the Green Door by Rotor

What is a sustainable building?  A sustainable built environment?  A...

How we got started: New Forest Transition

Richard Barnett of New Forest Transition tells the story of their begi...

Transitioners’ Digest (December 2014)

Welcome to our last Digest of 2014.  Our theme this month was ‘...

Pandora Thomas on responding to the Prison Industrial Complex with permaculture and resilience

Pandora Thomas is a teacher, writer, speaker and designer. She curren...

Results from the Transition Culture survey

A few weeks ago we asked you for your thoughts, via a short survey, on...

If I Ruled The World

A couple of weeks ago the Western Morning News asked me to write somet...

Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part Two

So how did you set about researching the book? I was really fortunate ...

Appearing on Desert Island Discs, Totnes-style

On Friday, at St John’s Church in Bridgetown, Totnes, I was the ...

Inez Aponte: From dismal science to language of beauty – Towards a new story of economics

Humans are storytelling beings. In fact one could argue that it is imp...

Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One

One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Jus...

My year without Amazon

Exactly a year ago today I wrote a piece on this blog called The day I...

Fukushima – living with the aftermath of a disaster

Fukushima. We all arrive by bullet train and take a photo of the stati...

One Minute Review: Incredible! by Pam Warhurst & Joanna Dobson

Incredible!: Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution is the story of Incredible E...

Our new support framework is here – give it a go and let us know what you think

A guest post from Michael Thomas, Transition Network’s Support C...

Unveiling the 2014 Transition Christmas TV Advert

I have sometimes been asked “if you had a prime time TV advertis...

Looking Back Over 100 Years: an interview with Douglas Matthews

In 2008, when I was researching my PhD looking at Transition Town Totn...

Are we doing it right? Let us know.

It’s now 17 months since Transition Culture moved from its home ...

Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’: a review

Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience.  ...

Our theme this month is catching up

You may have noticed that it is the 11th, and we still haven’t s...

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Belper

Back in December 2009 when a few Belper residents first met to talk ab...

Transitioners’ Digest (October 2014)

Our theme this month has been ‘Rethinking Real Estate’.  ...

Introducing the Scottish Community Empowerment Bill…

One of my highlights at the recent Transition Roadshow at the Universi...

Guest Post by Debbie Warrener – Deepening into Despair – and Hope – in Japan

I love Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects – and the monthly ‘Mac...

German National (Un)Konferenz: report back from Ben

Ben Brangwyn (co-founder of Transition Network) recently returned from...

Inner Transition goes International…

A diverse international group of Transitioners met in Copenhagen recen...

The Power of a Plan B

When Hay on Wye was threatened with a new supermarket in what appeared...

Shaking hands with the Mayor of Bologna

I’m just back from two days in and around the beautiful city of Bolo...

Why “at the end of the day” just isn’t OK

At the age of 17, I resolved never to use a particular phrase, which s...

A Transition Guide to Neighbourhood Plans

Today’s guest post is from Amy Burnett, who is also happy to ans...

Podcast: What good consultation sounds like

All too often our experience of being consulted on proposed new develo...

Transition: Live and Unleashed in the New Forest!

It’s an all too common experience to plough on with doing Transition...

The St Andrews Transition Roadshow: full report

Instead of running an annual conference in 2014, Transition Network is...

Is gender an issue in Transition?

Today’s guest post is from Fiona Ward:  “About 18 months ...

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Chepstow

Chepstow is a small Welsh town with a population of about 12,000. It i...

Carrots among the concrete: the role of urban agriculture

As architects and developers plan new developments, they are certainly...

‘Ils Changent Le Monde’: two days in Paris

It would be fair, I think, to say that Transition was slower to take o...

Tony Greenham on housing bubbles

One might well be forgiven for assuming that our current strategy for ...

GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm

I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK’...

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Market Harborough

Darren Woodiwiss of Transition Market Harborough reports on the group&...