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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

Other names, other colours: Transition, Latino Style

We recently came across this great article, written by Tracy L Barnett for Magis Magazine (original here) which she very kindly allowed us to repost here. “One of the early Transition Town initiatives was launched in Ensenada, Baja California, by an American expat, Robert Frey. Frey went to Queretaro, Mexico,

Nicole Vosper on seeing prisons as “one massive creative design opportunity”

When I went to the recent 2015 International Permaculture Convergence, one workshop I really wanted to go to was about permaculture and prisons. I couldn’t go though, as I had to be somewhere else. So I subsequently got in touch with Nicole Vosper, who led that workshop, and interviewed

October 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

We take stock of the conference in this newsletter, begin our Support theme on Practical Projects and our main theme of Fairness covers money, energy and food. In Thinking Aloud we consider responses to refugees, community energy and opportunities at railway stations plus REconomy offers a killer app. CONFERENCE The