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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

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

From the Archive: Cara Naden reflects on being flooded in Somerset.

For our next ‘From the Archive’ post we go back to March 2014. The previous months, the UK had been hit by some of the worst storms in history, and Somerset had been hit especially hard, with many areas flooded for months. Cara Naden, a Transition activist living in Somerset,

From the Archive: Sophy Banks on The Power of Not Doing Stuff.

As part of our ‘From the Archive’ theme, today we revisit a blog from July 2013, an interview with Sophy Banks on ‘The Power of Not Doing Stuff’ (our theme at the time was ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’. It is as relevant today as it was back then…

Exploring Transitions in Wuppertal

The day after the 10th anniversary of the Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes (has it really been that long?), I hopped on a succession of trains to head for Wuppertal, a city in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Home to 350,000 people, it is sometimes called the

When Loorbach met Hopkins: on Transition and research

How might research best support, document and inform both the Transition movement and societal transitions more widely? Over the last couple of days, at Wuppertal University in Germany, a conference called the International Sustainability Transitions Conference has been taking place. One of its plenary sessions was called ‘Research and Practice