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Book Review: The Island that Never Was: an English castaway in Bilbao by Robert Alcock.

The spirit behind Transition, that invitation for a community to come together to reimagine and rebuild itself, takes many forms, not all of them choose to use the label Transition, and some, like the story told in this book, emerged before Transition but very much sees itself as being a

Acting to Affirm Life: body awareness and self empowerment in activism.

Lou Hemmerman, a sustainable activism researcher and facilitator with Ecodharma, shares her learnings from 6 years of action-research whilst co-facilitating Sustaining Resistance: Empowering Renewal, a 10 day residential workshop for activists. Lou lives at Ecodharma, a land-based community and education centre in a wild and remote part of the Catalunyan

The Secret Temple, and reflections on what makes a good export.

Last week I visited an amazing exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London called The Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism, (it’s on until February 28th). The exhibition is a celebration of the Lukhang, a temple close to Lhasa’s Potala Palace which was conceived by

Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:5. See success with new eyes and savour it.

Neighbourhood Planning and Transition initiatives: an update.

Low-carbon Neighbourhood Planning – key policy changes and scope for influence for Transition Initiatives Amy Burnett, University of Reading and Dan Stone, Centre for Sustainable Energy It’s been over a year since I wrote my article Neighbourhood Planning and the transition towards a low-carbon society back in October 2014 for

February 2016 – Transition Network Newsletter

Our main newsletter feature this month is on Burnout – what it is both individually and for groups, and more importantly, what we can do about it; there are also stories on how making drinks has helped create community and pointers to a local economy; and book reviews including of an

The unstoppable rise of ‘Demain’.

The film ‘Demain’ (‘Tomorrow’) is proving to be one of the most remarkable catalysts for Transition and other bottom-up approaches that has ever been made. I recently saw it described by a friend of mine as “‘March of the Penguins’ for localists”. Mention of it often pops up in emails