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The Social Reporters are people doing Transition around The United Kingdom who want to write together about Transition, or related topics. They set their own editorial agenda.

The Social Reporting project began in 2011 with 12 'social reporters' around the United Kingdom, producing one blog post every day on a different topic set each week (see right hand column). At the moment, it is a smaller band of writers, who are always interested in new people joining.

If you have any questions, or would like to write a guest blog, or join the group, please email the social reporters.

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Urgency and the Long Game

While I was walking my dog this morning under the sparkly blue skies I've grown used to, I detected a slight shift in the angle of the light, reminding me that the earth rotates on its axis and it's heading back around the sun.

Published on August 2, 2014, by Jay Tompt
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Brexit and the New Resilience

Like everyone else, I've been trying to make sense of the 'brexit' vote and it's implications for me and my family, as well as the grass roots movement in which I have been an enthusiastic participant.

Published on July 16, 2016, by Jay Tompt

The LEF – REconomy’s ‘Killer App’?

I'm old enough to remember when word processing and spreadsheets were the 'killer apps' that not only enabled wide-spread adoption of desktop computers across the business world, but unleashed an industry. That was over 30 years ago. Today, it's - what?

Published on September 13, 2015, by Jay Tompt

On The Transition Trail

Travel has changed for me. Privileged to have been taken all over the world as a child, enjoyer of sunshine breaks in my twenties and pilgrimages in my thirties, I swore off long haul flying some time ago.

Published on October 2, 2014, by Sophie Galleymo...
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Eye on the horizon

What a summer it's been. Glorious sunshine and blue skies, day after day. It makes for a welcome change here in Wales, but globally it's not just the weather that's been hot. Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Ferguson...to name but a few places where conflicts have once more erupted from historic smouldering tensions into outright flaming war.

Published on August 25, 2014, by Ann Owen

Pears for your heirs

Some neighbours here in Totnes spent a couple of years and a great deal of money retrofitting their house to achieve Passivhaus certification. It was one of the first retrofitted homes in the UK to achieve this standard and certainly the first to do so without benefit of any grants.

Published on August 12, 2014, by Chris Bird

Urgency and the Long Game

While I was walking my dog this morning under the sparkly blue skies I've grown used to, I detected a slight shift in the angle of the light, reminding me that the earth rotates on its axis and it's heading back around the sun.

Published on August 2, 2014, by Jay Tompt
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How to transform your local economy in one day

We want community-led economic development, the kind that's just, ecologically regenerative, inclusive and equitable. But it's easier said than done. Creating bottom-up economic change is incredibly difficult. But for the past three years, we've been doing something that seems to be working. It's relatively cheap and easy to do.

Published on July 23, 2014, by Jay Tompt
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5 reasons why the world cup will never be environmentally sustainable.

So it’s over for another four years (hooray!) No more hearing ‘fun facts’ over breakfast, about minor players and fixtures, from my football obsessed son, and no more avoiding my favourite pubs which for several weeks became no-go zones of crowds and big screen TVs. But personal dislike aside, just how bad is the world cup (and other major sporting events) for the environment.

Published on July 15, 2014, by Sara Ayech

The Duke's a Hazzard

Totnes, the town that took on Costa Coffee and stopped them opening an unwanted coffee house in the High Street, is now challenging plans by the Duke of Somerset to build over eighty homes on the site of a long established dairy farm on the edge of the town.

Published on July 14, 2014, by Chris Bird
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