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Sustainable St Albans Week 2018
You know that feeling where you want to sit down, kick off your shoes and let someone else get on and do the work? Impossible, right? … We all know there is only a few of us to go round. Well, after one too many dispiriting meetings our little Transition St
A Female Power
An interview with Boe Huntress on the re-membering of an embodied power
In my last blog Game Over? I wrote about how recent movements like the #MeToo campaign are highlighting systemic abuses of power while also demonstrating alternative and collaborative forms of leadership. The combined voice and presence of
’21 Stories of Transition’ now available to download, in English and French.
‘21 Stories of Transition‘, the book we published for COP 21 in Paris in December 2015, is now available here as a free download, both in English and in French. The book, comprising stories harvested by Rob Hopkins from many Transition groups around the world, and designed by Jane Brady,
Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn on ‘The Bank Job’
When I was recently at the #CTRLshift conference in Wigan, one project that many people were talking about was Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn’s ‘The Bank Job’, currently underway in a former bank in Walthamstow. It had just been featured in The Guardian under the headline ‘The rebel bank,
A report from #CTRLshift2018
It was billed as “an emergency summit for change”, and it was a call that drew around 150 people from across the UK, and even some from further afield. Hosted at The Edge, a community-funded church building in the centre of Wigan just round the corner from the actual
A dazzlingly delicious taste of the future in Liége
Something really amazing is happening in Liége in Belgium. I was last there 4 years ago, where I gave talks and did meetings in support of Liege en Transition, and to attend a meeting to promote a project they had just launched called ‘Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise’ (‘The Liége Food