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‘Ils Changent Le Monde’: two days in Paris

It would be fair, I think, to say that Transition was slower to take off in France than in some other European countries, but it now feels well underway. This evolution has been greatly aided by the recent publication, by Editions du Seuile, of the French edition of The Power

Tony Greenham on housing bubbles

One might well be forgiven for assuming that our current strategy for getting out of an economic crisis caused by an unsustainable housing bubble is to create an unsustainable housing bubble. But are we? And what is a housing bubble anyway? We asked Tony Greenham, who runs the financial reform

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Naomi Klein on the role of Inner Transition

Naomi Klein is currently promoting her excellent new book This Changes Everything. As part of this, she recently did a ‘Guardian Live’ event, chaired by Owen Jones and streamed on the web. You can now watch the event in full below, it’s fantastic and well worth watching. In one

Helping shape the planning process: Transition Market Harborough

Darren Woodiwiss of Transition Market Harborough reports on the group’s attempts to influence development in their town, which have focused on the one remaining undeveloped site in the town… “Market Harborough is a picturesque market town situated in South Leicestershire nestled up against the Northamptonshire border. It is a

GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm

I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK’s first urban mushroom farm. City centres are full of unused office space, either due to lack of demand, or due to developers mothballing them for future development. What use might be found for them? And might

Paul Chatterton on Lilac Leeds Co-housing

Paul Chatterton is one of the founders of the Lilac Cohousing project in Leeds. BY day he works as a geographer at Leeds University. Lilac is a fascinating model for a new, more equitable and ecological approach to providing affordable housing. When we met Paul to learn more, we started