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Meet your 2017 Guest Editors!

Hello from the Comms Team at Transition Network. You all know by now that Rob is away on sabbatical writing a new book about Imagination. We felt it was the perfect time to build on our community of ideas from both inside and outside the network- of topics, happenings, and

This beer kills pipelines

The TransCanada pipeline (called Energy East) is intended to transport oil from the tar sands in Alberta to St. John in New Brunswick, a route of 6,400km across Canada. Once built, 1.1 million barrels of oil are intended to flow through it every day. Every day. In the

The Transition Hubsters gather in Santorso, Italy.

It’s a year and a half since the Transition Hubs last met. In case you don’t know, the Transition Hubs are the organisations that represent and support Transition in different countries (Transition Mexico, Transition Germany etc…). They work closely together and collaborate on projects. This year’s meeting

Podcast: “I’m welling up just talking about it”: the marvel of Totnes LEF6

This year’s Totnes Local Entrepreneur Forum was the sixth. This remarkable event, put on by the Totnes REconomy Project, is one of the highlights of my year. It was also timed to coincide with Global Divestment Week, organised by 350.org, in part to explore the question of “once

Postcard from Transition Bondi Beach, Australia

Recently Naresh Giangrande, Transition Network Training Co-ordinator, and Sophy Banks, formerly of TN, had an opportunity to visit Bondi Transition Initiative. Below is a blog from Transition Bondi about the evening, and following, a lovely exchange of emails between Sophy and some of the team. We thought it was a

“You only get so many Mays in your life”: why our imagination needs the dawn chorus.

Rob Hopkins gets up at the crack of dawn to hear the dawn chorus, and reflects here on why it matters for our imagination, our curiosity, our empathy. [Originally published at robhopkins.net]. It’s still dark on the early May morning when we gather. It’s quiet, apart from

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Christopher Lyon

1. Brief Introduction of your Work My work explores the social dimensions of resilience, adaptation and transformation. To date I have mostly focused on community resilience and the cultural and other processes that communities use to navigate challenge and change. I’m very interested in how people and groups understand