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Earthship building course, Devon UK: bursaries now available
Fancy learning to build an Earthship?
If so, check out the course starting 21 March, taking place on Sharpham Estate, Devon, UK.
We’ve just been told that bursaries (amount would depend on individual circumstances) are available to transitioners in the UK and Europe. In addition, there’s also a
Think we should be measuring “happiness” rather than GDP? Tell the UK gov’t…
UK’s Office for National Statistics is developing new measures of national well-being (at last)
And they’re requesting our input via a survey (good old SurveyMonkey). Here’s part of the intro from the survey:
The aim is that these new measures will cover the quality of life
February 2011 Network Newsletter
The February 2011 Transition Network newsletter
CONTENTS
NEWS
~ Monthly News round up of what’s happening in Transition
~ Tradeable energy quotas launched in House of Commons
~ Energyshare launches
~ Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh April UK tour
~ Transition Network Diversity Newsletter January 2011
~ Transition as a market
COMMUNITY NEWS
ONLINE ARTICLES &
Adding information to the site
How to add things to the site
This site is mostly made up of information added by the people, initiatives and projects that make up Transition. There are a lot of things you can add to the site, from initiative profiles to forum posts, to comments and project profiles. We
Find land or buildings for community enterprises
Finding buildings and land where we can set up community enterprises
We were recently alerted to a new service “The Place Station“, which appears to fill in a huge gap in our aspirations to identify land and buildings suitable for socially beneficial purposes.
This service is a bit like a
Find out about local energy projects in the UK
It’s all about sharing energy stories
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, tireless champion of chickens, fish and catalyser of LandShare has extended the latter idea into a new initiative – energyshare.
energyshare is becoming a really credible web destination for the vast subject of local energy – it’s an online social network,