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

Our thanks to Gerd Wessling, co-ordinator of the German hub, for the following story from Germany: “Sunday May 13th 2012 will be declared “In Transition 2.0 film and information day” in Germany, Austria and Switzerland! We kindly ask all German, Swiss & Austrian Transition initiatives to self-organize screenings of

Researching Transition: making sure it benefits transitioners

You can help make sure that Researchers are doing work that benefits transitioners. Here’s how. Here at Transition Network we get a regular flow of research enquiries – all the way from student projects that have to be in the next day to PhDs with multi-year, multi-country, multi-dimensional proposals. Some

Faith: reasons to be cheerful

I’m not what people generally know as a “man of faith”, and sometimes the religious responses to the crises of the world have left me exasperated and despairing. However, there is a particular religious initiative taking its place at the leading edge of global stewardship, and it’s giving

Is sustainability sinking without a trace in the deliberations over the new National Curriculum?

On 27 June 2011 I emailed a bunch of my friends (it was in pre-blog days) saying: I’m just back from the Sunday Times Festival of Education at Wellington College in Berkshire where Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, spoke. I managed to put a question to him

Fostering Active and Collaborative Learning – a five day course for adult educators

A five day course (free if you are in the European Union) which may be of interest to Transitioners in Europe who are involved in adult education, training or facilitation. “Fostering Active and Collaborative Learning” A Five Day Course for Adult Educators in Cloughjordan Ecovillage October 15 – 19 2012 The

Transition Town Berkhamsted – What On Earth Should We Do About Climate Change?

To help raise awareness as part of the recent national Climate Week (which ran from the 12th -18th March), Transition Town Berkhamsted held a successful Question Time style debate ‘What On Earth Should We Do About Climate Change?’ event on the 14th of March which included a wide range of

Resilience Festival 2012 in Guelph

Transition Guelph is holding it’s second annual Community Resilience Festival from 24th – 31st March. The festival, a collaboration of Transition Guelph and several partnering community groups is a week-long community gathering offering a wide range of events to explore progressive ideas around community planning, local re-skilling and empowerment. Chris