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Inspirational Wise Woman Interviews

In this second post in our Guest Editor series, Steph Blom interviews Odete, an inspiration to Steph at an important moment in the journey of this project. I interviewed Odete, the grandmother of my friend Catarina. Odete was born in Angola, and later on moved to Lisbon, where she still

Connecting with our Inner Wise Woman

The meetings and conversations I had in Buenos Aires made me realize these connections we experience with others; are in a way a reflection of the connection we have with ourselves. The one type of connection seems to feed the other, and vice versa. Inspired in part from “The Artist’

Experimental Community Organising – Transition Hungary

Everyone’s story contributes to our favourite tale: a Hungarian chapter within that much-needed narrative, where we are little by little creating so much momentum, the “Great Turning” is inevitable. Where do we put our energy? Into being and creating the change we want to see happen. Cliché, yes,

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