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Funding available for communities developing plans for economic development

New support is being launched this week for companies and organisations based in England to develop local economic plans and strategies. From 1st April, grants of up to £5,000, practical advice and expertise will be available to 50 groups. So if you are a Transition initiative in England working

One Minute Review: Happier People, Healthier Planet.

One Minute Review: Happier People, Healthier Planet by Teresa Belton. Reviewed by Jesús Martín. Published last September , this is a book which deeply touches its reader, not only from a mental perspective also but from an emotional and active one. This is probably a book that doesn’t need to

The Transition Agony Aunt: “Help! Our meetings are boring us to tears”…

Dear Auntie, please help. I love doing Transition, and I love the projects our group is doing, but I can’t bear our Core Group meetings. They are lacklustre, tedious and I feel myself losing the will to live in them. I would love to be able to take some

Ackroyd & Harvey on “the creative response to climate change”

Heather Ackroyd (HA) and Dan Harvey (DH) work together as Ackroyd and Harvey. Sculpture, photography, architecture, ecology and biology are some of the disciplines that intersect in their work, revealing an intrinsic bias towards process and event. For over 25 years their work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries,

Seeing Transition take flight: a day in Luxembourg

I had never been to Luxembourg before. Having recently visited France and Belgium to meet Transition groups, I had just about got used to the fact that in one (I can’t remember which) people kiss on one cheek, and in the other they kiss on two cheeks, and I

Podcast: SWIMBY the Musical: an update: “you have to reach for the stars”

Today’s blog is a podcast recorded in poet Matt Harvey’s composing shed in his garden in Totnes. A few weeks ago, SWIMBY The Musical (original working title ‘Transition Town: The Musical’) raised over £10,000 in a Kickstarter appeal, and this was followed by some Arts Council funding.

Transition movement returns to its Devon roots

It has been announced that delegates from across the world will be travelling to Devon, the birthplace of the Transition movement, in September 2015. The inaugural Transition Network International Conference will be held from 18th-20th September with 350 Transition representatives from across the globe expected to be in attendance