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

Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience. In a sense, the sheer size of them means you have no choice other than to be absorbed (This Changes Everything runs to almost 600 pages). Her two previous masterworks, No Logo and The Shock Doctrine were mind-altering and

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 offer. It raised a remarkable amount of money, £1.6 million, to build the Wilmington Farm Solar Array. Coming on the heels of the recent West Solent Solar Co-operative (which included many members of Transition New Forest) share issue

Our theme this month is catching up

You may have noticed that it is the 11th, and we still haven’t started a new theme yet, as has been our pattern for the past couple of years. October, for me, involved a huge amount of travel and time on trains. I went to St Andrews for the

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Belper

Back in December 2009 when a few Belper residents first met to talk about this new thing called the Transition Network, the community of Belper was already actively battling the mighty Tesco; they had bought the derelict Thornton’s site in the centre of the town, by the River Derwent,

November 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

The website theme ‘Rethinking Real Estate’ asks “is it beyond our creativity to provide our fellow human beings with shelter and sustenance without covering more of the world in concrete?”. In ‘Thinking Aloud’ we reflect on how much gender is an issue in Transition and some thoughts on the impact

Introducing the Scottish Community Empowerment Bill…

One of my highlights at the recent Transition Roadshow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland was a workshop led by Angus Hardie, Director of the Scottish Community Alliance. He talked about the forthcoming Community Empowerment Bill. “I like the sound of that” I thought. The workshop proved fascinating,

Transitioners’ Digest (October 2014)

Our theme this month has been ‘Rethinking Real Estate’. It began with an editorial piece, Why I’m Proud to be a SWIMBY, which framed the month. It introduced a new term, SWIMBY (as in “Something Wonderful In My Back Yard”, as opposed to NIMBY), and outlined a ‘SWIMBY Manifesto’