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...

The November and December Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

We start this two-month round up with a remarkable tale from Chile, th...

Blessed are the PVC makers

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

Bank of England takes note of local money

Last week the Bank of England published an article in its Quarterly Bu...

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...

How did the first ‘Transition Launch Online’ training go?

The first online version of the Transition Launch training just took p...

Reimagining Santa’s Grotto: The Restart Project

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

The day I closed my Amazon account

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

December 2013 – Transition Network Newsletter

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

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...

REconomy is recruiting a Trainer, ideally with fundraising skills

We know that one of the main challenges faced by Transition Initiative...

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

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

How Sustainable is Transition, Really?

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

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 ...

Brent’s Bumper Harvest Brings Tons of Local Fruit to Communities

Fruit picking groups in Brent, north west London, have had a bumper ha...

Funding for community renewables – but you’ll have to move fast!

The Cabinet Office’s Centre for Social Action and the Department of ...

Typhoon Hiayan: an Open Letter to Naderev Saño

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

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

It’s a bumper roundup this month, as we’re doing 2 roundup...

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

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

Melbourne Area Transition become landowners!

Here is a great story from Derbyshire.  Whistlewood Common Limited, t...

Might your local food project qualify for the ‘A Team Challenge’?

Every now and then a funding opportunity comes along which looks ideal...

Mary Portas and the Golden Tickets of Dorking

Here at Transition Network, we are always on the lookout for innovativ...

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...

Your chance to learn how to do a REconomy Economic Evaluation for your local economy

The REconomy Project is running a training soon on how to do an Econom...

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...

Italy stages its first ‘Transition Fest’

Transition Italy recently held the first gathering of Transitioners fr...

How Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition are responding to austerity

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

The power of Halloween and baking biscuits

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

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...

Job – Training and Events Co-ordinator

November 2013 – Transition Network Newsletter

We have several posts about Extreme Energy in the newsletter this mont...

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 ...

‘In Transition 2.0’ director visits Russia

Emma Goude, director of ‘In Transition 1.0’ and ‘In ...

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

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

New group of national hubs to explore REconomy in 5 different countries

The Transition national hubs of Belgium (Reséau Transition Wallonie-B...

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...

The REconomy Project takes its first steps in France

Many of those involved in Transition in France have been following the...

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 ...