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Sophy Banks on the impact of Transition Training in Israel and the West Bank

The question “what’s our impact?” went with me to Israel and the West Bank, where Naresh and I were invited to run the first Transition:Launch training. As part of our trip we ran a one day Transition workshop in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Although it’s just

Comms delivery group meeting report 28 April 2014

Michael Shuman: “I would say that we are winning”

We last spoke to Michael Shuman just over three years ago. He is author of several books on local economic development, the most recent being Local Dollars, Local Sense. He is an attorney, an economist, and his current job title is Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets. Not every

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

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

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