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Mary Portas and the Golden Tickets of Dorking

Here at Transition Network, we are always on the lookout for innovative tools for enhancing local economies, so here’s a fascinating initiative underway in Dorking in Surrey. Mary Portas, ‘Mary Queen of Shops’ and creator of the recent ‘Portas Review’, visited the town recently, guest of Transition Dorking, as

An interview with Dr Tim Lang: “Dire times are one of the only moments when structures get laid bare”

When looking for insights into food, policy and politics, the first place I turn is to Professor Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University London. For decades he has been at the forefront of debates around public health and the role that food, and food policy, play in

Your chance to learn how to do a REconomy Economic Evaluation for your local economy

The REconomy Project is running a training soon on how to do an Economic Evaluation for your community. We’ve written before here about Economic Blueprints/Evaluations, and their potential for really refocusing on the possibilities of a more resilient and local economy. REconomy’s Fiona Ward takes up the

Setting future dates for your blog posts

It is possible to write your post and set the publication date for the future so that the post appears at a later date. * Write the post * In the Authoring information section, delete the ‘authored on’ time the machine adds and replace with the date you want your post to

Permaculture and Transition – shared challenges, shared possibilities: a talk in Northern California

The talk on my recent US tour that I enjoyed most was the one I gave at the ‘Building Resilient Communities’ conference at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland in Northern California. It was the first gathering I know of that drew together the Transition and permaculture communities in a

Italy stages its first ‘Transition Fest’

Transition Italy recently held the first gathering of Transitioners from across the country, to celebrate 5 years since Transition first arrived on those shores. We are very grateful to Deborah Rim Moiso for sending us the following report of the event: About a hundred Transitioners and their friends assembled in

Weebles Wobble but they don’t Fall Down

This guest blog is from Nicholas Raybould, who is one of the six students on the One Year in Transition course this year. He writes about the first meet up, in September, which was based at Sharpham House outside Totnes. The induction week is designed to set the context for