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Of climates past: 1963, the last time the River Thames froze

I don’t remember a winter as mild as the one the UK is currently experiencing. Today was only the second frost of the year and it’s the 9th of December. That comes, of course, in the context of what climatologists argue looks 97% likely to be the hottest

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Eight.

The Solutions COP21 event at Grand Palais that I had visited the previous day was, thanks to its paucity of actual solutions, potentially liable to being sued under the French version of the Trades Descriptions Act. Anyone wandering its halls would have been hard put to find much that actually

COP21: the View From Totnes

A guest blog from Naresh Giangrande: I am not in Paris. I have been following events there in the mainstream and alt media and via Transition Network’s coverage, and our own internal Silent Skype feed. Over here, in the UK, it feels like madness to be negotiating the most

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Seven.

Today was the most thought-provoking day, at times viscerally so. The logo for COP21 says ‘Tous ensemble pour le climat’, or “all together for the climate” (see right). Yet today was a day when the battle lines felt clearly drawn, or rather the two extremes on display here came into

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Six

I spent the morning at Place to B doing interviews, one for National Geographic France, and the other with an online magazine who wanted to know what my ideal house would be like in 2050. Enjoyed that. Given that I would be 82 by then, it was a rather fetching

The most beautiful song about Transition yet created?

I’m now over half way through my time here in Paris, and it is pretty hectic really. It can feel like being pulled in many different directions and really quite intense and tiring sometimes. It is useful then, in such moments, to reconnect with what it is that we

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Five

This shouldn’t take so long as today was, compared to past days, relatively uneventful. Its first half was dominated by the Transition Network website going down, leading to lots of scrabbling around and my being unable to upload various things that I needed to upload. I got to Le