The ‘Transition Animal’: one Transitioner’s experience

This month, we’ve asked some people who’ve used the Transi...

Transition Network Conference 2015: March update

We are delighted to announce that after a couple of years with no Tran...

Penwith Rethinking our economic future event report

The Penwith ‘Rethinking our Economic Future’ event was great and I...

Transition Penwith’s journey to a thriving west Cornwall

Transition Network’s Transition Initiative Support Coordinator ...

March 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

This month we have more on our conference and roadshows. A round up of...

“When Transition forgets what it’s called”: the Arts and Social Change

Welcome to our month on Social Change and the Arts.  It’s a the...

Lucy Neal on ‘Playing for Time’

Lucy Neal has lived in Tooting in London for nearly 3 decades. She has...

Transitioners’ Digest (Jan-Feb 2015)

Our theme for these couple of months has been ‘The Power to Conv...

One minute Review – The Vegan Book of Permaculture

Not just a book for vegans Graham Burnett has just released a great bo...

Join the Transition Bloc at the Time to Act March for Climate Change

The Time To Act March For Climate Change is nearly upon us, taking pla...

Introducing the first book about Transition in Spanish

This month sees publication of the first new book about Transition not...

Have you done the Transition Health Check yet?

Believe or not the Transition Health Check is not about measuring ever...

The Transition Agony Aunt on Initiating Groups that can’t agree on anything.

Dear Auntie.  Please help!  I am finding our Initiating Group’...

Which great moments tell the Transition story?

When you talk about the Transition movement, what works, and just as i...

Premier League rugby’s ‘Exeter Chiefs’ commit to handling the Exeter Pound

Fascinating story from the Exeter Pound website:   The Exeter Chiefs...

Planning: the untapped power of community consent.

When planning consent is given for a development which local people bi...

Obituary: Transition Free Press (2012-2015)

We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our dear friend, Tr...

Zero Carbon Powys Conference

I was up early on a Saturday morning to get up to Centre for Alternati...

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...

Fancy some funding to run a Green Open Homes event?

Many Transition initiatives have run successful Green Open Homes event...

February 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

We hear how Belgians ‘Changent le Monde’ and the forthcomi...

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...

Transition Buxton take on former council plant nursery

Here is some inspiring news from Transition Buxton about their recent ...

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...

‘Transition Town: The Musical’ launches Kickstarter appeal

‘Transition Town: The Musical’: Plans revealed for a new ...

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

January 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

To start the new year we offer lots of inspiring news and new features...

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...

Transition Network’s Annual Report 2014

We are delighted to share Transition Network’s Trustees Report a...

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...

December 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

While our theme in November was catching up, December’s theme is...

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...