Transition Network scoop a 2014 PEA Award!

Transition Network’s Rob Hopkins was the proud winner of a Peopl...

Unveiling the 2014 Transition Christmas TV Advert

I have sometimes been asked “if you had a prime time TV advertis...

Looking Back Over 100 Years: an interview with Douglas Matthews

In 2008, when I was researching my PhD looking at Transition Town Totn...

Are we doing it right? Let us know.

It’s now 17 months since Transition Culture moved from its home ...

Scottish Transition groups join call for fracking moratorium

Three Scottish Transition groups, Black Isle, Stirling and Linlithgow ...

Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’: a review

Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience.  ...

The October/November 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Bath & West Community Energy just closed their third public share ...

Our theme this month is catching up

You may have noticed that it is the 11th, and we still haven’t s...

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Belper

Back in December 2009 when a few Belper residents first met to talk ab...

November 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

 The website theme ‘Rethinking Real Estate’ asks “i...

Transitioners’ Digest (October 2014)

Our theme this month has been ‘Rethinking Real Estate’.  ...

Introducing the Scottish Community Empowerment Bill…

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

Transition Town Totnes to hold Transition Film Festival

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

German National (Un)Konferenz: report back from Ben

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

Inner Transition goes International…

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

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

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

The Power of a Plan B

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

Shaking hands with the Mayor of Bologna

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

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...

A Transition Guide to Neighbourhood Plans

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

Podcast: What good consultation sounds like

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

Transition: Live and Unleashed in the New Forest!

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

The St Andrews Transition Roadshow: full report

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

Is gender an issue in Transition?

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

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Chepstow

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

Carrots among the concrete: the role of urban agriculture

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

‘Ils Changent Le Monde’: two days in Paris

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

Tony Greenham on housing bubbles

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

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Naomi Klein on the role of Inner Transition

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

GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm

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

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Market Harborough

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

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...

October 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

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

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

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

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...

Atmos Totnes creates national precedent

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

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...

Transition Hubs meeting 2014: a ‘lot’ to share

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...

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&...

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...

September 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

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

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...

Celebrating Green Open Homes

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

How we make space for nature: Transition Town Tooting

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