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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

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,

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’

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

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