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Docteur Who? A dazzling day in Namur.

Regular readers will recall that I visited Namur in Belgium a couple of years ago, and gave a sold-out-weeks-in-advance talk at the University which I will always remember as one of the loveliest and most delightful I’ve ever done. I was invited back, as a guest of the University,

Rob Hopkins’ Foreword for David Fleming’s ‘Surviving the Future’

I’m delighted to be able to share the Foreword I wrote for David Fleming’s book ‘Surviving the Future’, which was selected and edited by the wonderful Shaun Chamberlin. Released as a pair with Fleming’s seminal ‘Lean Logic: a dictionary for the future and how to survive it‘

Falling into Place: action points from the Transitionese project

As we work on collaborative, creative processes, what often seems to happen is that, rather than have a plan, we feel our way through, listen, interact, and then suddenly, somehow, things fall into place. And that is more or less how I felt this week as I cut-and-pasted material from

“A crowd, a host of golden Chanterelles”: my wild mushroom initiation

I did indeed wander “o’er vales and hills”, although not “as lonely as a cloud” – I was with my son, on a Sunday afternoon walk. Whereas Wordsworth wrote “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils”, it was an entirely different golden host that

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REconomy Guide: ‘The Do-Ocracy Handbook’

The UK REconomy Project have just published a new ‘How To Guide’ by Mark Simmonds, entitled ‘The Do-Ocracy Handbook: organisational types and legal structures‘. Whilst this is a resource particularly relevant to the UK legal context it contains many ideas that can be used internationally. It’s a wonderful thing,

From the Archive: The Ghosts of Shoppers Past: why assumptions matter

Here is a blog by Rob Hopkins from March 2013: Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes is famed for supposedly being one of the most haunted castles in Britain. It is said that the ghosts can still be seen of the Pomeroy brothers riding to their doom over the castle cliffs

Book Review and Competition: ‘Born on Third Base’ by Chuck Collins.

Book Review: Born on Third Base: a one percenter makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home and committing to the common good by Chuck Collins. Chelsea Green Publishing. * Win a copy in our exclusive competition below! * I am regularly, and rightly, asked about the extent to which the