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Transitioners’ Digest (September 2014)

This month we have been exploring the theme of “Making Space for Nature” from a wide range of different angles. We started with an editorial piece which argued that one of the key things that nature can bring our work doing Transition is a sense of wonder. Something to do

Hayley Spann on What Nature Taught Me

“Hold a question in your mind and allow nature to answer it by simply listening with all your senses. Let it lead the way in this next step in your life”. Those were the instructions I was given, one sunny day in July in a protected natural woodland enclosure beside

Hearing all the voices to make the New Story..

Once upon a time two people got married and lived happily ever after in the place of their dreams.. Going to the wedding of two friends in the Findhorn community in north eastern Scotland was the start of my contact with the Findhorn Foundation New Story Summit as Naresh and

Atmos Totnes creates national precedent

The community of Totnes in Devon just reached a historic agreement which represents the next step for Transition, a huge leap forward in ambition, scale and possibility. In 2007, the Dairy Crest site in Totnes closed, and 163 jobs were lost. This came on top of a number of other

Mike Jones on making space for the primal nature of kids

At birth we are the buds, the tips of the tree of life. Our parents are the twigs on which we sprout, our ancestors the branches, and the boughs and trunk are as old as life itself. We are gifted with a precious heirloom, our jewel-like strings of genes.

Aniol Esteban on why economics needs to make space for nature

Aniol Esteban is head of Environmental Economics at the New Economics Foundation. He is a biologist and environmental economist. He is the author of, among other things, Natural Solutions: Nature’s role in delivering well-being and key policy goals – opportunities for the third sector, published by nef. I started

Mark Watson on Making Space for Flowers

“Did you grow all those yourself?”, a young woman asked me last week at Transition Town Tooting’s 7th Foodival. She was pointing to a wicker basket filled with the aromatic lemon balm, rosemary, anise hyssop, marjoram and a dozen or so more herbs and flowers I was preparing tea