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Can we learn to embrace a future of less flying?
Last week I was at HEC, a prestigious French business university near Paris. At one point, I taught a class of young, new-intake students, the cream of their generation, attending HEC to be given the best training possible in order to become the executives of the future. Their first project
Introducing … our new website!
It is with great joy and delight that today we present you with the result of many months of hard work by the team at Transition Network – our new website! It’s not just a re-design. We’ve stripped things back to make it more readable and accessible, and we’
Podcast: The caring town fair
Last Saturday I went to the great Caring Town Fair, organised by Caring Town Totnes, a great initiative that has emerged from Transition Town Totnes exercising their ‘power to convene’. Caring Town describes itself thus: “we’re a network of public, voluntary and private organisations who care about our community
Before President Trump, fetch wood, carry water. After President Trump, fetch wood, carry water.
I watched the sun rise on the day Donald Trump became President Trump, sitting at my laptop, watching the clouds turn yellow, watching the results roll in. I had barely slept the night before, tossing and turning, wanting to turn on my phone and see how it was going, but
Bubbles, Struggles, Soils and Troubles
By Sophie Galleymore Bird: On Monday November 31st I returned from Romania; fittingly for Halloween, feeling like one of the shambling undead after five days at the Expo Transilvania in Cluj Napoca at the Nyeleni European Forum on Food Sovereignty, organised by the global peasants’ movement La Via Campesina. I
Hub of the Month: Belgium
Each month we’ll be finding out more about one of our national Transition Hubs. We start with Réseau Transition, the Belgian Transition Network for French-speaking initiatives. The first meetings between Belgian French-speaking initiatives started in 2011, and led to the first “modest but awesome” meeting between initiatives, the “Conviviale”