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Ruah Swennerfelt on the Transition movement and people of faith.

Ruah Swennerfelt has just published a fascinating new addition to the literature on Transition. ‘Rising to the Challenge: the Transition Movement and People of Faith’ was published recently by the Quaker Institute for the Future (QIF), and, as Stephanie Kaza puts it in her endorsement of the book, “demonstrates the

Greyton Transition Town win 3 national awards!

By Nicola Vernon: South Africa’s only Transition Town in Greyton, in the Western Cape, swept the board at the country’s recent environmental awards, winning in three out of seven categories. The hat-trick saw Greyton acknowledged as an eco-Community, its Director, Marshall Rinquest, won Eco-Youth and

Dorota Hajdukiewicz: “We’re amateurs, but we’re going to grow food!”

With our theme of Springtime renewal, and of starting afresh, in this post we talk to Dorota Hajdukiewicz, a mature student at the University of Huddersfield. I recently read about an urban food-growing project she and her fellow students are starting on land owned by the University, and thought

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