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The train now standing at Platform 3 is … a Co-op?

Rob Hopkins speaks to Alex Lawrie about Go-op, a highly ambitious attempt to create the first co-operatively owned train operating company in the UK. “I come to this really as a frustrated rail traveller. As someone who is a regular user of the railways but who always seems to end

Celebrating 10 years of Transition Town Totnes

Thursday March 9th 2017 was the day that we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Transition Town Totnes. It was a fairly arbitrary date to choose, and we had been planning to do it for a while, and it co-incided with the opening of our third annual TTT Film Festival, so

Youth volunteering opportunity in Portugal

Transition São Luís in Portugal has currently 2 open vacancies for youth volunteering through the European Voluntary Service, as part of a larger project coordinated by the municipality of Odemira, involving different associations in working in the rural context. Applications are open until the 22nd of March. You can find

The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land or In Praise of Boredom

Last night I watched the latest episode of Panorama, ‘Sleepless Britain’. It explored the problems of sleeplessness faced by many families, with visits to hospital caused by poor sleep having tripled in the last 10 years. A generation of young people not getting as much sleep as they should be

Fishguard’s Transition Cafe wins award!

One of our ‘21 Stories of Transition‘, the Transition Community Cafe, is recognised with a prestigious award. We were thrilled recently to receive the following press release regarding the REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest: 'We are happy to announce that the Transition Surplus Food Project has been selected by

March 2017 – Transition Newsletter

Find out how our ten years (wow!) of Transition shaped inspiration began. Also, Richard Heinberg (who spoke at our first conference) underlines our continued relevance; Dominican TV debates de-growth and Farnham’s Repair Cafe repairs and re-creates. We launch more language translations for our support materials plus reflections on a

10 years of Transition Network: the early days…

This month represents the 10th anniversary of the founding of Transition Network. That’s Transition Network the organisation you understand, not the network of Transition groups which the organisation was set up to support. We thought that as we begin this anniversary month, it might be good to look back