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We published a taster of this piece earlier in the week, introducing Andy Lipkis, founder and President of Tree People. It’s a fitting way to draw to a close our month on ‘Scaling up’.  Andy was raised in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, at a time when the smog

In a guest post, Ben Brangwyn, Transition Network’s International Development Co-ordinator, tells the story of the scaling up of Transition Network internationally, the emergence of the international Hubs and where it’s all going now. Introduction This is a little tale of the spread of Transition internationally. We think

And so our month on ‘Scaling up’ draws to a close.  It has been such a busy and thought-provoking theme that I thought I’d pick up on a few of the threads before we draw it to a close.  I also generated a new term to describe myself which

Scaling up – next week, the world! Introduction This is a little tale of the spread of Transition internationally. We think it’s a relevant story for Transitioners because of the parallels that happen across all sorts of levels of scale. Some of the conflicts, dynamics and prejudices that I see

Ecopoetry: a definition Ecopoetry goes several steps further than traditional nature poetry by recognising the interdependence of all life on earth and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature in a modern world ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power.                                                           (an adaptation from a definition published on

Our recent post about Kevin McCabe’s ‘cob citadel’ and what we might learn from it about ‘scaling up’ generated a lot of debate and discussion.  Robert Alcock, a cob self-builder living in Spain commented that “the really great thing about cob is that it is an inherently anti-mainstream material”