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The Impact We’re Having: Zsanett and Zoltán of Transition Hosszúhetény

Hosszúhetény is the most populous village in Baranya county, in the south of Hungary, with 3400 inhabitants. It’s situated in beautiful natural surroundings at the foot of the Zengő peak of the Mecsek hills. People who live here are traditionally very proud of their natural environment, one famous example

Eamon O’Hara on the “important catalytic effect” of community-led action

One of the most fascinating recent studies into the impact of Transition was Local Communities Leading the Way to a Low Carbon Society, a report published by AEIDL (Association Européenne pour l’Information sur le Développement Local. It looks at Transition, permaculture and ecovillage networks, what it calls the “Silent

Heartbleed security issue

Earlier this week, a flaw in software that is used to secure Web communications across approximately 66% of the internet was disclosed. That’s a lot of the internet. The ‘Heartbleed’ bug introduced a security vulnerability (http://heartbleed.com) in the widely used OpenSSL cryptographic library. We use this security.

Why I despise self checkouts with a rare and unbridled passion

It’s time for a rant about SACAT. “About what?” you might most reasonably cry. ‘Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminals’, that’s what. In plain English, it’s those self checkout things that are taking over shops up and down the land. In 2008 there were 92,600 such units

Jo Hamilton on why monitoring and evaluation matters for Transition

What role does measuring and evaluating your impacts have to play for Transition initiatives? How important is it, and how straightforward is it in a group that is already busy “doing stuff”? Jo Hamilton is a researcher at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute whose research focuses on those very

The April 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Let’s start on the UK’s south coast, where Transition Town Worthing’s annual beach clean-up was given a boost through some funding from Southern Water, which covered their insurance and 100 high visibility jackets. Barbara Shaw from TTW (right, with David Bone from Southern Water) told The

The impact we’ve having: Marie Goodwin of Transition Town Media

“What’s the catch?” she asked as she idled up to the table. The yard was filled with blankets and tables, boxes and miscellany scattered over almost every square inch except for the well-marked paths. Our information table was welcoming people at the entrance, and this question was asked