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Paul Chatterton on Lilac Leeds Co-housing

Paul Chatterton is one of the founders of the Lilac Cohousing project ...

Our month on rethinking real estate: Why I’m proud to be a SWIMBY

You’re passing a field and you see a large hoarding bearing the word...

Hayley Spann on What Nature Taught Me

“Hold a question in your mind and allow nature to answer it by s...

Transitioners’ Digest (September 2014)

This month we have been exploring the theme of “Making Space for...

Hearing all the voices to make the New Story..

Once upon a time two people got married and lived happily ever after i...

Aniol Esteban on why economics needs to make space for nature

Aniol Esteban is head of Environmental Economics at the New Economics ...

Mike Jones on making space for the primal nature of kids

At birth we are the buds, the tips of the tree of life. Our parents ar...

Mark Watson on Making Space for Flowers

“Did you grow all those yourself?”, a young woman asked me last we...

Richard Louv on living “nature-rich” lives

Richard Louv is a journalist and author of a number of books, most fam...

Reflections on the Peoples’ Climate March, London

At the end of the Peoples’ Climate March in London, the last speaker...

Interview: David Nobbs on ‘The Second Life of Sally Mottram’

David Nobbs is a writer, mostly of novels, of which he has done over 2...

How we make space for nature: Transition Langport

Transition Langport started with the appreciation and love of nature a...

Isabel Carlisle on making space for Nature: the Community Charter

I like the idea of ‘making space for Nature’. I like space...

Mary-Jayne Rust on “reconnecting to the rest of nature”

Mary-Jayne Rust is an art therapist, a Jungian analyst, a feminist ps...

Responding to Ted Trainer: there’s a lot more to Transition than community gardens

Ted Trainer’s recent paper, Transition Townspeople, we need to think...

Caspar Walsh on nature, writing and community

Caspar Walsh’s childhood combined “experience of nature, ...

How to make Transition plum & almond cake

Last night I attended the book launch, at Schumacher College, of Julia...

Can supermarkets ever be sustainable?

Here is another piece I wrote recently for the Guardian Live Better Ch...

How we make space for nature: Transition Homes

Anecdotally, at least, honey-bees are doing far better in cities like ...

The Second Life of Sally Mottram: a review

It feels to me like an important moment in the evolution of Transitio...

How we make space for nature: Transition Town Tooting

Tooting is a busy London suburb stretching between and beyond two tube...

Interview: George Monbiot on Rewilding

In July I had the great privilege of chairing George Monbiot’s p...

Responding to drought by thinking like a forest

Here is a recent piece I wrote for The Guardian’s Living Better ...

Why Transition needs a sense of wonder

It’s dusk.  The family who arrived earlier in the day and pitch...

Transition for tribal communities in Orissa, India

Transition Training Empowering Tribal Communities in Orissa It was sum...

Creating a culture of celebration

When I was about 12 a friend of my sister came on holiday with my fami...

The Future of Food: a new Transition programme for primary schools

This is a guest blog from Marina O’Connell who runs the Apricot Cent...

The Transition FAMILY Connections Game

This is the blog we are using to follow the Transition FAMILY Connecti...

The Transitioner’s Digest (July)

This month our theme has been ‘Celebration’.  We have set...

Fiona Ward on learning to celebrate a £10,000 failure

One of the things I love most about working for the Transition Network...

Divest! Then what?

Last year when I visited the US, Peter Lipman (Chair of Transition Net...

Sophy Banks on Creating a Culture of Celebration

When I was about 12 a friend of my sister came on holiday with my fami...

Web service strategic update July 2014

This is a brief update on where the web project is at the end of July ...

This month’s theme: The Power of Not Doing Stuff

How we celebrate! Transition Town Wilmslow’s energy group

Like many Transition groups we have spawned different subgroups at dif...

Comms delivery group meeting report 8 July 2014

Communications Group meeting Tuesday 8th July 2014 (Ben’s birthday) ...

Web steering group meeting notes 090714

Web Steering Group Meeting 09/07/14 9th July 2014 Present: Ed, Sam, Jo...

Transition Technologist meeting notes 2 July 2014

How we celebrate! Transition Bristol

 A couple of weeks ago, Transition Bristol held their Small Green Sun...

Chris Johnstone: “Without celebration, we wither away”

Chris Johnstone works in the area of the psychology of resilience, sus...

Celebrating Transition at the Transition Northwest Conference

Saturday 12th July saw the first pilot Transition Roadshow take place,...

Transition Roadshow – Urban Food/ Organic Food/ BioChar workshop

This workshop contained three interlinked talks about local food growi...

Transition Roadshow – posting one person’s round up of the day

Renewable Energy Workshop – Transition Roadshow

Lots of interest here in creating a NW Regional Network for Community ...

Creating and Maintaining Healthy Transition Initiatives – Naresh’s workshop

Sustainable Communities Act 2007. Is it useful for Transition? – workshop Transition Roadshow

Tony Haslam from Transition City Lancaster invited us to vision a sust...

My feeling – opening session Transition Roadshow

The Optimist speaks – Transition Roadshow

Transition approaches to death and dying – Transition Roadshow workshop

TTIP and Transition

Today is National Day of Action on TTIP.  Brian Woodward is asking Tr...

Transition Roadshow – welcome from Transition city Lancaster

Lancaster Roadshow Sunday Evening

On Sunday morning a bunch of us are off to walk 13.7 billion years and...

Dave Pollard: Celebration: nodding with a smile to the Sacred

Transition Network’s Ben Brangwyn interviewed author, social ent...

Test blog post from Roadshow account

Roadshow hits Lancaster!

The house that Baz built

Naomi Oreskes on the roots of climate change denial

Naomi Oreskes is a historian at science who teaches and does research ...

An inspiring taste of Transition in Germany

It’s just as well I enjoy travelling on trains, as Germany is a long...

How we celebrate! Crystal Palace Transition Town

10 tips for great Transition celebrations

As someone who visits quite a lot of Transition groups, I see the same...