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Richard Wilkinson on fairness and equality.

Richard Wilkinson is Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-author, with Kate Pickett, of the seminal book ‘The Spirit Level’. Much of his work has focused on health inequalities and the effects of income inequality on population health. We started our conversation,

Book now for the 2015 Transition Camp!

The annual Transition Camp in the heart of Sussex. A time to breathe and be together. We invite you to join us for our 7th Autumn camp: Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th October 2015. A time to gather together and create a family friendly event. To celebrate, share our skills, visions,

Geoff Lawton on food, fairness and permaculture design.

One of the highlights of the recent International Permaculture Conference in London was a keynote by permaculture educator and designer Geoff Lawton. Geoff is renowned through his website for his online videos and courses, and is perhaps best known for his greening the desert work. The second day of the

‘Small is Powerful’: Transition in action in Hungary.

Tracey Wheatley, Communities in Transition programme coordinator and Transition pioneer in Hungary, reports on two recent Transition events there (original here): “After 8 months of ever more hectic organisation, the summer gatherings – the Transition in Action Youth Exchange and the KÖRfeszt – all came together as we hoped. Now its time

Opinion: Community energy is too good an opportunity to miss.

While government can famously tend to be siloed, each department working in isolation from each other, at the community scale, that’s not a problem we face. Making communities more resilient is all about joining things up, making connections. As a result, we look at energy generation in a very

Juliet Davenport on energy and fairness

Juliet Davenport is the founder and CEO of Good Energy, who are the main sponsors of the 2015 Transition Network International Conference. As part of our current theme on ‘Fairness’, we spoke to Juliet and started by asking her what, for her, does a fair energy system look like? Here’

September 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

This month has the latest buzz about the conference, and also the start of our theme for next month which is Fairness. REConomy encourage us to get out networking, a new project directory and a book review, training news and news of some other events. LAST CALL FOR THE CONFERENCE!