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Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon

Christophe McGlade is a research associate in energy materials modelling at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. He recently co-authored, with Paul Ekins, a paper called “The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2°C”, a paper whose stark call to leave the substantial

February 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

We hear how Belgians ‘Changent le Monde’ and the forthcoming musical gets funded. We have a number of fascinating articles on our two themes so far this year of The Power to Convene and How We Got Started. Some final articles from Transition Free Press. The Transition Agony Aunt solves

Fancy some funding to run a Green Open Homes event?

Many Transition initiatives have run successful Green Open Homes events over the last few years, and for many it is a key point of their annual calendar. The Centre for Sustainable Energy in Bristol has just announced a new round of funding for Green Open Homes events. You can apply

Book review: “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. Really?

I first heard about Alex Epstein’s book ‘The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’ via an unsurprisingly fawning review over at the SkeptEco blog. Its premise is so ludicrous that normally I wouldn’t read it, never mind review it. There is no “moral case for fossil fuels”, just as

How Transition Town Tooting convene through celebration and imagination

The words of the ‘Sankofa’ bird were written during one of many dancing, singing, making and music workshops that took place in the lead up to the Trashcatchers’ Carnival in July 2010. On Fishponds I will find my flock And fly in formation and Nest on our Rock’ Sankofa is

The Transition Agony Aunt on how to talk about peak oil

How we got started: Transition Black Isle

The story of how Transition Black Isle got started is told by two founder members, John Wood and Wendy Price, Ann Thomas and Maggie Price. Our thanks to all of them for making the time to sit down and think back to those founding days. “Hope it’s of some