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

Let’s start this month’s round up in Australia. Transition Sydney also recently held an event about social enterprise and reviving local economies through resilience-building, entitled the ‘Living Economies Forum’, with a great range of speakers. Here is the poster. One of them was Michael Shuman, and here

Launch of Community Composting Training Programme

Free community composting courses for growers of Local Food will soon be taking place across England. The courses which will be running during October and November are aimed at local not for profit organisations, community groups and social enterprises which are growing local fruit and vegetables and which wish to

Seeding Change – Personal Growth & Social Transformation course opportunity

A week course to explore and learn how to embrace change as a creative opportunity for growing being held from 10 – 16 November in Spain: * Practical resources for low-impact and sustainable living * Permaculture * Tools for personal change and growth * Tools for developing community resilience * Local economics & transition movements

Presentation from the potential of Localism to unlock Transition workshop

A presentation from the ‘The potential of Localism to unlock Transition’ workshop held at the Transition Network Conference. Dave Chapman presented on the new powers that the recent Localism Act and the changes to the planning system in England and Wales potentially give to Transition initiatives. (scroll to the bottom

Presentations from the Bringing Power to the People: starting your own community renewable energy project workshop

Four presentations from the ‘Bringing Power to the People: starting your own community renewable energy project’ workshop held at the Transition Network Conference. The session was presented by Chris Rowland of OVESCO, Peter Capener of Bath and West Community Energy, Allan Shepherd, author of “The Home Energy Handbook”, and Frank

Audio from the REconomy Project Day

Over on the REconomy Project website, the team have added an article with all the audio clips from the REconomy Project Day that took place on the 14th September as part of the Transition Network Conference. Visit the REconomy Project page to listen to the audio clips ›

A write up of the 2012 Transition Network Conference – The best yet

Rob Hopkins shared a write up on Transition Culture about the recent Transition Network Conference (reproduced below). You can read the original article here › Transition folks from around the world gathered last weekend at Battersea Arts Centre for the 6th annual Transition Network conference. In a week when the Arctic