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Transition and the Commons: freeing our imaginations

On 16 November I was in Brussels for the first European Commons Assembly: a gathering of over 100 people from all over Europe and beyond who are stepping forward to make visible, manage and protect the resources that we as citizens hold in common. We held our session in the

Naresh Giangrande on movement building in America Latina

I tread so carefully, I walk with bare feet in the first Train the Trainer in America Latina. The paradox of Transition coming from the ultimate colonial (although waning) power of Great Britain has always struck me as some divine joke which I can sometimes see the funny side of.

Film Review: ‘Qu’est-ce qu’on attend?‘ (‘What are we waiting for?’)

December 2016 – Transition Newsletter

Thoughts on ways of weaning us off fossil fuels and responding to elections open our newsletter. Initiatives in Tooting and Totnes successfully partner up with other local groups; a report on a European Food Sovereignty conference and a rewriting of an old tale for troubling times. More on our new

November 2016 – Transition Network Newsletter

We open this month with review of an irony free film about Climate Change by the owner of a $200m yacht, an award for a film, a new inspiring French film and two pieces on Brexit, it really isn’t time for everybody to get stoned (as might now Dylan

October 2016 – Transition Network Newsletter

Introduction: Our usual editor, Mike Grenville, is currently off cycling along the border of the former Iron Curtain. So the rest of the Transition Network team have stepped in to crowd-source this month’s autumnal newsletter as a dazzling display of collaborative working in action. We are all flat out

Riding a wave – our experience of the month’s public voting stage of the Aviva Community Fund

A guest post by Chuck Whitehead, Transition Town Tooting: TTT, CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers – a charity based in Tooting) and The Grange have just finished a month of seeking public votes in the Aviva Community Fund for Gardens of Refuge, a partnership project with refugees and