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What would a Transition Co-operative store look like?

Originally published last week at Co-operative News under the headline The ‘Silicon Valley’ of community resilience. My town, Totnes, on the south Devon coast, is the UK’s first Transition town. Over the past eight years, it has catalysed over 40 projects, many of them co-operatives – such as a community

Transition Streets: growing success for communities to conserve energy

Here is the second of my monthly pieces for the Guardian’s Live Better Challenge: When Gail Jackson put an invitation through every door on her street in St Albans, inviting her neighbours round to her house to discuss doing Transition Streets, she didn’t really expect any of them

The Impact We’re Having: Anthony Woolhouse on the West Solent Solar Cooperative

“And God said, “Let there be light” and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected…” Spike Milligan We hope to do better…. We have created the West Solent Solar Co-operative to generate renewable energy for, and by, the local

Mundaring in Transition launch a success

Over one hundred people attended the launch of Mundaring in Transition at the Hub on Saturday 12th April. Transition is an exciting new international movement that is rapidly growing in Australia. There are already well over a thousand groups in forty five different countries with several springing up in the

Transition Technologist meeting notes 17 April 2014

Ttech meet 17/04/14 Bristol 13:00 – 17:00 Ben Chris Ed Sam Actions ~~~~~~ Ed: edit procurement principles google doc ALL create invoices for meeting to cover 4 hours meeting and travel cost (Ben include mileage, Chris train ticket) and send to Ed with TNv3 budget reference Ed: create

Katrina Brown on resilience, impact and learning

Katrina Brown is a Professor of Social Sciences based at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at Exeter University. The three key themes her research centres on are Resilience, Vulnerability and Development, Dynamics of Change in Coastal Social Ecological-Systems and People, Poverty and Carbon. As someone who has published papers about

The impact of Transition. In numbers.

Here’s something we’d love your help with. How can we capture the impact of Transition in numbers? We’ve done our best with what we can find, and we’d love to know what you would add from your local initiative. Any numbers you can put to your