Introducing the Scottish Community Empowerment Bill…

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

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Transition Town Totnes to hold Transition Film Festival

On the weekend of November 14-16, Transition Town Totnes will be holdi...

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

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

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German National (Un)Konferenz: report back from Ben

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

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Inner Transition goes International…

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

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The Power of a Plan B

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

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Shaking hands with the Mayor of Bologna

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

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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...

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Podcast: What good consultation sounds like

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

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A Transition Guide to Neighbourhood Plans

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

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Transition: Live and Unleashed in the New Forest!

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

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The St Andrews Transition Roadshow: full report

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

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Helping shape the planning process: Transition Chepstow

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

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Is gender an issue in Transition?

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

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Carrots among the concrete: the role of urban agriculture

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

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‘Ils Changent Le Monde’: two days in Paris

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

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Tony Greenham on housing bubbles

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

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Job – Web Manager

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Naomi Klein on the role of Inner Transition

Naomi Klein is currently promoting her excellent new book This Changes...

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Helping shape the planning process: Transition Market Harborough

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

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GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm

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

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Paul Chatterton on Lilac Leeds Co-housing

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

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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...

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October 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

Getting connected in different ways seems to be a thread in the storie...

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Coming Soon! The First Transition Network Roadshow – St. Andrews!

Following our successful pilot in Lancaster, Transition Network is on ...

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Transitioners’ Digest (September 2014)

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

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Hayley Spann on What Nature Taught Me

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

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Hearing all the voices to make the New Story..

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

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Atmos Totnes creates national precedent

The community of Totnes in Devon just reached a historic agreement whi...

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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...

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Aniol Esteban on why economics needs to make space for nature

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

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Mark Watson on Making Space for Flowers

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

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Reflections on the Peoples’ Climate March, London

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

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Richard Louv on living “nature-rich” lives

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

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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...

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How we make space for nature: Transition Langport

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

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Isabel Carlisle on making space for Nature: the Community Charter

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

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Transition Hubs meeting 2014: a ‘lot’ to share

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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...

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

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

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

This month’s Roundup covers stories from July and August, so we&...

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Caspar Walsh on nature, writing and community

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

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How to make Transition plum & almond cake

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

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September 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

Do you remember that our theme was about not doing stuff? That is pret...

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Can supermarkets ever be sustainable?

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

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How we make space for nature: Transition Homes

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

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The Second Life of Sally Mottram: a review

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

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Celebrating Green Open Homes

It’s that time of year when Open Eco Homes events happen up and ...

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How we make space for nature: Transition Town Tooting

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

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Responding to drought by thinking like a forest

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

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Interview: George Monbiot on Rewilding

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

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Why Transition needs a sense of wonder

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

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August 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

Although we are mostly kicking our shoes off this month, we still have...

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Transition for tribal communities in Orissa, India

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

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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...

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Creating a culture of celebration

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

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The Transition FAMILY Connections Game

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

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The Transitioner’s Digest (July)

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

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Divest! Then what?

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

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

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

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