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

Fascinating story from the Exeter Pound website: The Exeter Chiefs have given their backing to a new local currency due to launch in the city this September. One of the largest independent businesses in Exeter, the Premiership rugby club has committed to become part of Exeter Pound. Not only will

Which great moments tell the Transition story?

When you talk about the Transition movement, what works, and just as importantly, what doesn’t? When you read things others have written about the Transition movement, what delights you, and what infuriates you? Transition Network is undertaking a project with Jon Alexander of the New Citizenship Project who is

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

Dear Auntie. Please help! I am finding our Initiating Group’s meetings very frustrating! It seems to me that everyone wants something different, we can’t even seem to agree on how to hold a meeting. It’s driving me mad because it’s paralysing the group and it means

Planning: the untapped power of community consent.

When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story? What options remain open to them? As South Hams District Council planners grant the Duke of Somerset permission to close down the last working dairy farm in Totnes to replace

Obituary: Transition Free Press (2012-2015)

We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our dear friend, Transition Free Press. TFP, as it was more affectionately known, had, in its short life, become a lighthouse for those bobbing on the seas of Transition, a shining beacon of our collective emergent culture. Ever since its

Zero Carbon Powys Conference

I was up early on a Saturday morning to get up to Centre for Alternative Technology in Mid Wales to the Zero Carbon Powys conference organised by Powys Transition and Low Carbon Communities Network (PTLCC) which is made up of a range of groups in the Powys area. In the

One Minute Review: Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn.

Shelter, originally published in 1973, is one of my favourite books. Large format, black and white, a celebration of hand built shelters around the world. I’ve had my copy for 20 years, and still pick it up and find new stuff in it. Tiny Homes is Kahn’s latest