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A July Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Here are two great reasons why we are starting this July round-up with DE4 Food in Derbyshire, a great social enterprise which features in the recently-published The Power of Just Doing Stuff. Firstly, as their ‘patchwork farming’ approach gains strength, they recently added the local Tansley Primary School

It’s your summer reading! The Transition Infographic

Every summer holiday break needs some stimulating reading that isn’t too taxing on the brain. So rather than the latest Dan Brown book, may we offer you our wonderful shiny new Transition infographic? It is the work of Bristol-based designer Trucie Mitchell, who also happens to be the

The final Transition Thursday: Slaithwaite, Yorkshire

Over six weeks I have travelled up and down the country visiting Transition initiatives to pay a visit, to hopefully give their efforts a boost, and to give The Power of Just Doing Stuff a bit of a push. It’s been amazing I must say. I’ve been to

Joanna Blythman on the Power of “lots and lots of little projects”

Joanna Blythman is a journalist and author who writes about food and food issues. Her book The Food We Eat had a huge impact on me when I read it nearly 20 years ago. She remains one of the most incisive and insightful writers on food issues. I had wanted

Web maintenance update July 2013

Since we began this phase, we have spent more than the estimate on maintenance, and doubled the server’s memory under the pressure of use; so it has been more expensive than we thought. It is also a great indicator of a shift to a different, more formal way of

One Year In Transition and the power of alternatives to university

Registration for 1YT 2013-14 is now open. The cost will be £1500 for the year. There is a conversation going on at the margins of higher education that is just beginning to be heard in the market place. It goes something like this: If the future that we are

“When people get together, things happen”: Transition Streets hits Australia!

Transition Streets was initiated by Transition Town Totnes in 2010 and won the 2011 Ashden Award for Behaviour Change. Since its inception, it has been run with almost 700 households in Totnes and district, with, on average, each household reducing its emissions by 1.3 tonnes (a saving of around