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The Transition Story: Time to stop talking about climate change?

The thought I want to seed in your brain today is whether a more skilful way to inspire a response to climate change, and a more skilful way to achieve all the things we want to achieve in the Transition movement, is to spend less time talking about the issues

Why COP21 matters, and why I’m going.

On Monday we launch our new book ’21 Stories of Transition’ and today we begin our build up to COP21 in Paris which starts at the end of the month. Often our default setting as people who are motivated by climate change is to lobby, demonstrate and campaign to try

November 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

This month we are delighted to unveil our brilliant new publication, ’21 Stories of Transition’; we have a Digest of our Fairness theme; how a community responded when overwhelmed with refugees; the potential opportunity of prisons; plus practical projects, training and events. 21 Stories for COP21 There are now 4

Julie Brown on food and fairness

In our final post on our theme of fairness, we talk to Julie Brown. Julie is Director of Growing Communities, a social enterprise based in Hackney in North East London. They run a box scheme which supplies vegetables to about 1000 households in Hackney and run the weekly Stoke Newington

Practical Projects: Northaw Community Orchard – Mud, Sweat and Volunteers!

Back in 2010 a few of us hardy souls formed Northaw Transition, in our little village in South Hertfordshire. We ran a number of small scale initiatives involving the local village and primary school; battery and clothes recycling projects, environmental audits, a small school orchard, educational awareness campaigns and stalls,

Transitioners’ Digest (September – October 2015) Fairness

Over the last 2 months we have been looking into Fairness from a variety of angles. We opened with an editorial by Sophy Banks which put fairness at the heart of what we are trying to do in Transition. We spoke to Juliet Davenport of Good Energy, sponsors of the

Syria on your doorstep: a community response to refugees in Hungary

Today we have a guest post from Tracey Wheatley, co-ordinator of the Transition Hungary Hub: This is a response to the story recently posted on the Transition homepage about the Refugee Camp in Brussels and the role of Transitioners in getting it up and going. I’m not going to