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Postcards to Paris : Send your views to #COP21

Do you want to send your views to the Global Climate Conference in Paris, COP21? At COP21, world leaders will try and agree on how to stop dangerous global warming caused by human activity. They are trying to get agreement to reduce carbon emissions to limit the global temperature increase

What would the death of the Global Industrial Growth System mean for you?

One of the most innovative and well received elements of the International Transition Conference 2015 was the Requiem for the Global Industrial Growth System. Attended by over 80 people it gave a rare opportunity to reflect on our relationship to this vast system, to imagine witnessing its dying, and symbolically

“I think this is what I’d call a serious launch”: launching ’21 Stories of Transition’

Yesterday we gathered with Totnes Mayor Jacqi Hodgson to formally launch our new book ’21 Stories of Transition’. Our last publication, ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’ was launched into the River Dart two years ago with the previous Totnes Mayor in a boat fashioned from a pumpkin. We did

Derbyshire transition towns join together to launch divestment campaign

Seven Derbyshire Transition Town groups have joined together with other organisations to launch a Divest Derbyshire campaign. to get Derbyshire Pension Fund to dis-invest from fossil fuels. A month before the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the groups are calling for Derbyshire County Council to freeze any new

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