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New report: Climate After Growth

Transition Network and Post Carbon Institute have just come together to publish a new report, Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics & Community Resilience. The report is published to co-incide with Rob Hopkins’ visit to the US, and is co-authored by him and Asher Miller. You can

Tina Clarke on the Joys of Discovering Effective Collaboration

In this guest blog, Transition trainer Tina Clarke, also of Transition Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, gives a report on a recent training given by Nick Osborne which turned out to be way more successful than anyone could have imagined. Over to Tina… “Within two days after Nick Osborne gave his first

Transition Movement moves on a step: becoming a global family

I’m just back from a wonderful 4 day international meeting of the Transition National Hubs, in and around Lyon, France. There were about 35 of us, a few coming and going over the days, from 16 countries around the world. To sum it all up, there were great discussions

The Big Debate: Is there a ‘Transition position’ on fracking?

During August, at the peak of the campaign against the fracking for natural gas at Balcombe, West Sussex, the BBC ran a story called Dorking ‘green’ group in favour of fracking. It stated, “One group in Surrey set up to encourage sustainable living has come out in favour of exploration

Viv Chamberlin-Kidd on the Permaculture Design Course that changed her life

In the final winning entry in our Transition Training competition, Viv Chamberlin-Kidd shares her story of the impact a Permaculture Design Course had on her life: The impact that attending the Hoffman Process (HP) in November 2009 had is difficult to beat. It was 8 days cut off from my

Duncan Law introduces the Brixton Economic Evaluation

Transition Town Brixton (TTB) have just published their Rethinking Lambeth’s Local Economy report, the third in the series of Economic Blueprints/Evaluations that began with those produced for Totnes and Herefordshire. As REconomy’s Fiona Ward puts it: “Collectively these 3 pilot projects have contributed an enormous amount of

A lovely story from the Bristol Pound

Here’s a wonderful story from the Bristol Pound blog, which its author, Haley Pearson, gave permission to reproduce here. It’s a great local currency story, and with the Bristol Pound on a roll, recently announcing that it can be used on the city’s buses, I thought this