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Free Trees for communities

The Woodland Trust is offering free trees for communities to plant in their neighbourhoods in order to double the number of native trees in the UK. We’re big fans of this fantastic offer and encourage you to participate whole-heartedly. As well as being a practical and affordable way to

Peak oil is still a HUGE story

As the oil juggernaught (aka world economy) keeps chugging along, let’s not forget the bigger picture Here’s a hard-hitting and well researched 12 minute documentary by ABC in Australia. This news station was one of the first to start talking about peak oil back in 2006. Some extracts

Job: part-time grower at Norwich Community Supported Agriculture

This is from our friends in Norfolk who are setting up a Community Supported Agriculture project: Norwich FarmShare, a brand new Community Supported Agriculture scheme based on 2 acres at Hewett School and 5 acres in a field near Postwick, is looking for a part-time grower to join us, producing

Treehouse project: UK community design competition

Just received from a consultant with good green credentials “Sky Television is planning to televise – and promote massively – a community design competition that will feature the design and delivery of three new tree-houses that are popular, sustainable and hopefully in slightly counter-intuitive locations. The idea is that the treehouses are

London and Thames Valley transition gathering, 11-June, Heathrow

Transitioners in London and the Thames Valley to meet on 11-June-2011 at Grow Heathrow If the previous achievements of the social innovators and community activists at Grow Heathrow are anything to go by, this’ll be an excellent event. A packed day starts at 10am with tea, mingling and a

Conference 2011 tickets on sale

We’re delighted to announce that bookings are now open for the 2011 conference. Have a look at the conference page here. We’ll be in Liverpool in the North of England at Hope University for the two and a half days of the 8th – 11th July. The conference is

End of ingredients/tools phase 1

Having had an excellent ‘phase 1’ of the Transition Patterns project, we have taken the patterns down while they are edited for the book and later re-publishing on this site. Here is Rob’s post on the matter: This is a short post to announce that the patterns directory on