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Frances Northrop on how Transition Town Totnes are responding to austerity

For our last piece in our month’s theme of austerity and how Transition responds to it, we head to Totnes, one of the first Transition initiatives. What does austerity look like there, and how is Transition Town Totnes responding to it? We asked Frances Northrop, TTT Project Manager. While

How Sustainable is Transition, Really?

I’ve been thinking a lot in the past months about the question of sustainability in the long and short term – not of our society, or the planet but of people and groups within the Transition movement itself. I was at the Transition Camp in October, where a great mix

The Big Debate: how should Transition initiatives respond to austerity?

This month’s immersion in austerity has taken us in numerous directions. We’ve heard from all sorts of people, and now we’d like to hear from you. We’ve had James Meadway’s ‘Austerity Basics’, which have given us a grounding in the thinking behind the whole approach.

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

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?

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

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