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Chepstow is a small Welsh town with a population of about 12,000. It is a border town located on the River Wye where it flows into the Severn Estuary. Although it does have some local industries it is now mainly a commuter town with motorway access to Bristol, Newport

Today’s guest post is from Fiona Ward:  “About 18 months ago, I invited the women of the Transition Network staff and board to an evening meeting to begin to explore our experience of working in the Transition movement. We discovered that our reasons for wanting to get together and

As architects and developers plan new developments, they are certainly thinking about roads, parking spaces and footprints, but are they also thinking about productive plantings, the role of rooftop gardens and biodiversity?  Almost certainly not.  Having visited some great urban agriculture initiatives in the last couple of years, this feels

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

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