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Web strategy update

This is a brief outline with notes about where the Transition Network web project is at in November 2013. The year 2014/15 is going to be a big year for the web project; Transition Network is undergoing a huge organisational strategy re-fresh in response to organisational needs and the

Transition Thrive training at University of St Andrews: a report

Naresh Giangrande of Transition Training reports on a Transition Thrive training he recently co-facilitated in Scotland: The University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland is certainly posh, and old (it is famously Scotland’s oldest university). So what is a Transition Initiative doing in the middle of all that? And

Dr. Sarah Wollaston MP’s 7 thoughts on austerity

Sarah Wollaston, Conservative Member of Parliament for Totnes, is not your everyday Tory MP. She was the first MP to be chosen as a candidate through a US-style open primary. She was recently one of 15 joint winners of The Spectator’s Parliamentarians of the Year Award for going “through

Felicity Lawrence: How austerity’s “relentless drive to deregulate” impacts the food on our plate

Felicity Lawrence is a food writer and Guardian investigative journalist. When it comes to understanding the dark side of how the food industry works, she is the place to turn (unfortunately, the Skype connection was too bad to allow a usable podcast). What I wanted to explore was how austerity

Starting tomorrow – Austerity Basics with James Meadway

Pam Warhurst: Food banks are “the first response, not the final response”

Pam Warhurst is a community leader, activist and environment worker who is one of the founders of Incredible Edible Todmorden, West Yorkshire. In the 2005 New Year Honours she became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to the environment. She is a passionate advocate

Funding for community renewables – but you’ll have to move fast!

The Cabinet Office’s Centre for Social Action and the Department of Energy and Climate Change has just announced its Community Energy Peer Mentoring Fund, a fund designed specifically to support community renewable energy initiatives. They write: The new funding is designed to help new groups working in this area