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DEMAIN the film – my first premiere!

Our Guest Reporter Henry Owen reports: Last night I found myself heading to the Champs-Élysées with an assorted bunch of Transitioners and Transition Network staff to a very unusual event for us – a glitzy film premiere! The film – Demain – focuses on solutions to the environmental crises we face, and takes

Chris Bird reflects on stories, film premieres and sparkly high heeled shoes.

Chris Bird guest blogs from Paris: A few weeks ago we showed Naomi Kleins’ film – ‘This Changes Everything’ at the Totnes Film Festival. The film outlines how, over the past 400 years the predominant story about us and the planet is that we can subdue and control Nature to meet

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Four

Tuesday was kind of a catch up day really, until the evening. I spent most of the day at Place to B near Gare du Nord, catching up with stuff and doing interviews. Did one of those at about 10 which resulted in the interviewer telling my colleague that not

Paris so far – a state of emergency for France and for the planet

Our Paris Roving Reporter Henry Owen reports: So I’m in Paris for COP21 – but of course, not actually for COP21, but for all of the amazing and energetic events and actions that are planned to coincide with it. I arrived Wednesday with some friends by car (driving in Paris

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Three

Today was my first visit to La Bourget, the vast conference centre complex on the edge of Paris where COP21 is taking place. Amid very tight security, helicopters flying overhead, Robocop-style policemen and police on horseback, it certainly felt very different to the events and venues I had been at

How to Soup, French Style (Soupe)

From our Roving Reporter, Henry Owen: So on Saturday I was lucky enough to visit Le Pré-Saint-Gervais en Transition‘s ‘Disco Soupe’ event! This municipality – one of the poorer districts around Paris, just outside the ring road to the North East – has a population of about 15,000 and a

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Two

Paris authorities banned the planned Peoples’ Climate March that was supposed to take place in Paris today on security grounds although, as Naomi Klein pointed out, football matches were allowed to proceed on the grounds that “life must go on”. “Indeed it must”, she replied, “that’s why I joined