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From the archive: Transition Town Anywhere

Here’s a piece from 2012 which is a great contribution to our Social Change and the Arts theme. We also post it in loving memory of Battersea Arts Centre, whose magical space helped to make this exercise what it was, which was damaged badly in a fire a couple

Sally Ludwig of Transition Guelph on the Transition Animal

Transition Guelph asked Sophy to help us scope out the current state of our initative and its progress toward the overall goal of growing resilience in our city. One of the tools she introduced was the Transition Animal. I believe the animal was a little dog at the time. Interestingly,

Transition at Trinity: the Bristol Roadshow

Bristol was the first official ‘Transition City’. Transition Bristol has been instrumental in many pioneering initiatives in the city, such as the Bristol Pound, the UK’s first Peak Oil Report produced by a city council, the Food Resilience Plan to name just three. Last Saturday the penultimate Transition Roadshow

Juan del Rio on his new book: “It’s been like a birth”

Juan del Rio is the author of the recently published ‘Guía del movimiento de transición’, the first book about Transition in Spanish. He has been involved with social movements and Transition for the last 10 years, and is part of an initiative in his town of Cardedeu near Barcelona. We

The Transition Agony Aunt on how to respond to elections

Dear Agony Aunt. This May sees the General Election in the UK. What is your advice about how Transition groups should respond to elections? How can we raise the issues we would like to see discussed by our local candidates, while retaining the party political neutrality which is such an

The Transition Agony Aunt: “should we have an Unleashing?”

“Dear Agony Aunt. Our Transition group has been going for 2 years now, we’ve several great projects underway and feel things are moving well. We read in the Transition books that we should have an ‘Unleashing’. Do we have to? Have we left it too late? Would it be

The Transition Agony Aunt on helping quiet people find their voices.

“Dear Agony Auntie. I notice in our Transition group that there are a few people who rarely chip in and contribute. They clearly enjoy being part of things as they keep coming back, but they tend to hang back and keep quiet. Any suggestions for how we might coax them