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June 2016 – Transition Network Newsletter

Themes that include energy in an Entrepreneur Forum, an Energy company and local currency open this newsletter. Plus responding to linguistic diversity, collecting oral histories, reimagining sustainable business, reflections on 10 years transitioning, a film review, an events checklist and the Brexit/Bremain debate continues and there is more. Demain

What if: ATMs issued local currencies?

Banks. We can’t live with them, we can’t live without them. Yet. Much has been written about the role of banks in creating austerity, and coercing whole nations to dismantle and sell off public services and national assets, while being bailed out by the very people who depend

Planning for people – an update from the Transitionese translations project.

By Deborah Rim Moiso: Sometime in April 2016, an article in Spanish appeared on the Transition Network’s blog, recounting Juan del Rio’s adventures touring South American initiatives and promoting his book. Today I’d like to ask: how did that feel, all those foreign words on a familiar

New report: Old Stories for New Times: inspiration for sustainable living.

A guest blog from Carol Low: It was Spring. A Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn (TT K2K) open meeting. Someone my age (early 70s) proposed story circles with older members of the community to discuss how life was lived locally in earlier times. The initial focus was going to be

Emmanuel and Elizabeth at Pocheco: “Let’s change everything”

When you ring Pocheco, a company that makes 2 billion envelopes a year in their factory close to Lille in France, the holding message describes Pocheco as “the first ecolonomic factory in the world”. If you ordered a copy of ’21 Stories of Transition’ from us, you will have received

Film review: ‘This Changes Everything’

‘This Changes Everything’, the recent film starring Naomi Klein and made by her partner Avi Lewis, is ambitious in its scope and its reach. We meet those trying to block the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the US, Canada, India, Greece and other places, as well as those fighting

Bristol Energy Cooperative: “it felt right for us to be ambitious”

You may have read recently about Bristol Energy Coop (BEC) and their ambitious share offer which aimed to raise £10.5 million for renewable energy projects in Bristol. They have already reached £9 million, and are still looking for the last bit, and it’s not limited to people from