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Ruth Potts on the New Materialism

Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called The New Materialism, founder of Bread, Print and Roses, and organiser of the recent ‘Festival of Making’. She describes her work as “inviting people to fall in love with stuff in a good way”. We sat down

When shock provides just the kick up the backside we need

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that I never really got the whole keeping fit thing. I share an office with people whose idea of a good time is running across Dartmoor at night with a head torch on, hours in the gym or cycling across

How different would the world be if we paid the True Cost of food and farming?

What would our food system look like if the impacts of production on the environment and on public health were taken into account? At present the polluter doesn’t pay, and those producing food sustainably are not rewarded for positive outcomes. How might things work if the true costs of

How did the first ‘Transition Launch Online’ training go?

The first online version of the Transition Launch training just took place. How did it go? Can something as experiential as Transition Training ever work successfully online? Naresh Giangrande reflects on how the course enables people from anywhere in the world to take part in Transition Training at a pace

Storyteller Steph Bradley on ‘Tales of our Times’, red flipflops and “stuff”

What’s it like to set off, shod only in a pair of flip-flops, with only as much “stuff” as you can fit in a rucksack, to spend months walking the land in search of Tales of Transition? In 2010, through wind and rain, sun and sleet, Steph Bradley

Reimagining Santa’s Grotto: The Restart Project

The mental image we were brought up with of Santa’s workshop was of hoards of elves working away making new stuff, painting wooden trains with paintpots and so on. But what if we were able to shift that image, and instead tell our children that the elves aren’t

December 2013 – Transition Network Newsletter

The Big Debate: how should Transition initiatives respond to austerity? November’s immersion in austerity has taken us in numerous directions. We’ve had James Meadway’s ‘Austerity Basics’, which have given us a grounding in the thinking behind the whole approach. We’ve heard from a Conservative MP on