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What the long, red-legged scissorman did next

It’s not often I get to have a go at writing fiction. As a contribution to the just-published There was a knock at the door: 23 modern folk tales for troubling times, I had a go at updating The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb from Heinrich Hoffmann’s 1845 ghastly

10 essential ingredients of a “Good Brexit”

It’s been a fascinating week in the evolving absurdity of Brexit. The High Court decided that the terms of the Brexit negotiations needed to be agreed by Parliament, rather than being decided behind the closed doors of Cabinet meetings. The government will appeal to the Supreme Court and, with

Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’: A Review

The release of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film ‘Before the Flood’, near the end of a US election in which climate change has gone all but unmentioned, is to be celebrated. As is the fact that it has been made available free online, and within the first 2 days of

Breathing new life into old computers

By Bart Anderson of Transition Palo Alto: I have Eitan Fenson of Transition Palo Alto to blame for the piles of old laptops littering our living room. He’s the one who started me on a voyage of discovery about how to reduce the environmental impact of computers. And how

Are smoking cannabis and saving the planet mutually exclusive?

This blog has a deliberately provocative title, because I think this is something we really need to talk about. It is a question that has been in my mind after my recent trip to the ‘Education for Life’ conference in Mallorca. Psychiatrist Jose M. Fabregas gave an excellent talk which

Transition in Action 2 – Living the Life, Walking the Walk in the Transition Age

Transition in Action 2 was a success: young people from five EU countries came to an eco farm in Kunszállás, Southern Hungary, where they made their mark on the homestead, the surrounding town, and maybe most importantly: on themselves. We asked an organiser, Tracey Wheatley from Transition Hungary, how it

Amatrice Regeneration – rebuilding resilience after the Central Italy earthquake

By Deborah Rim Moiso: My story with Transition seems to be fraught with disaster. The first event I ever took part in, in 2009, was a workshop training on Open Space Technology organised by Transition Italia, the Italian hub of Transition Network, together with the facilitation school Genius Loci. This