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REconomy On The Road From Wigan Pier

On a wet and windy day in early-February, the energetic Billinge and Orrell in Transition Group invited over 100 community leaders, members and to take part in the first REconomy North West event. Close to the site of George Orwell’s bleak social investigation The Road to Wigan Pier,

Bob Hudson on Devolution: “there are some very worrying questions being raised by all of this”

The word ‘devolution’ figures large in the UK at the moment. You’d think the idea of devolving power closer to the local level would be very akin to what Transition is working to achieve, but as Kerry-Anne Mendoza puts it, in reality it represents “the greatest shift of

New film: ‘8 days @ COP21’

We are delighted to present our new film, ‘8 days @ COP21’. It captures those days last December when the climate negotiations took place in Paris, and the experiences of some of the Transitioners who were there. Thanks to our wonderful team of crack Transition volunteer translators in Paris, we are

Transition Galway’s ‘2030 Vision’ report: “there’s no limit to what we could do”

Transition Galway in Ireland just published ‘A Vision for Galway 2030’, their Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP). It’s a fascinating piece of work, and so we caught up with Bernard McGlinchy (BM), Mary Greene (MG) and Caoimhín Ó Maolallaigh (COM) to find out more about it. There had been

On having a great vision, and not ‘blowing an uncertain trumpet’.

My friend Lucy Neal sent me a photo of me the other day, taken at the Transition Network conference in 2012 at Battersea Arts Centre. On the final day of the event, we did a remarkable exercise, the Transition Town Anywhere High Street, designed and facilitated by Ruth Ben-Tovim

Dreaming in Tongues – a multi-lingual adventure begins.

In which Sara, Pedro and Deborah, the new Transitionese team working on a project to expand the International Transition movement’s translation capacities, introduce themselves and the tools they will be using. And ask for support through a survey. Following-up from the call sent out by Transition Network in

Budget 2016: What we are facing isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of the imagination.

So George Osborne just delivered his budget. In the same week, the Mauna Loa Observatory released data showing that the rise in CO2 concentrations in 2015 was the largest year-to-year increase during 56 years of research, up to 405.6 ppm, a level not seen in 15 million