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April 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

Creative Responses to Climate Change could have you in stitches, reaching for the stars or even going to Berkhampsted for the TN roadshow. Find out what sort of animal some groups are and how quiet people can find their voices. Some ideas on what to do now that everything has

Isabelle Frémeaux, John Jordan and the rise of the insurrectionary imagination.

Isabelle Frémeaux (IF) and John Jordan (JJ) are the co-founders of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. It’s a collective which , according to Isabelle, “aims at opening spaces, real or virtual, and bringing artists and activists together to work on and co-create more creative forms of resistance and

Our favourite Transition April Fool: the new Brixton £5 note

‘Victory for diversity and equality’: Former prime minister Sir John Major immortalised on Brixton Pound note (from the SW Londoner) The Brixton Pound, a currency used in the South London area of Brixton, has launched a limited edition note featuing former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major. The politician, who

Announcing Inner Transition week!

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the Earth. -Rumi Recently I was surprised to learn from Rob that the two things he’s most often asked about are Inner Transition and REconomy. Funny, isn’t it, what we

New Transition Network office is a load of rubbish

Transition Network is moving offices! Since the organisation’s inception in 2007, it has been housed at 43 Fore Street in Totnes, in a building once described in the Sunday Telegraph as a “rickety set of rooms”. The decision to find new premises was taken 3 years ago, but after

Lucy Neal’s ‘Playing for Time’ now published!

Lucy Neal’s ‘Playing for Time: making art as if the world mattered’ was published last week, and launched at a fantastic evening event in London. Here’s how it is described by the publisher: This groundbreaking handbook is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to reach

Book Review: ‘How to Save Town Centres’ by Julian Dobson.

Book review: How to save our town centres: a radical agenda for the future of high streets by Julian Dobson. Policy Press (available here). I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Indeed, I wish I had written it. It is, in effect, the Transition Guide to Reclaiming Local Economies. It