> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # March 2017 – Transition Newsletter - URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/march-2017-transition-newsletter/ - Published: 2017-03-02T14:29:51.000Z - Updated: 2020-09-02T13:15:06.000Z - Author: Transition Network international - Tags: Transition Network newsletters, #Import 2026-03-17 *Find out how our ten years (wow!) of Transition shaped inspiration began. Also, Richard Heinberg (who spoke at our first conference) underlines our continued relevance; Dominican TV debates de-growth and Farnham’s Repair Cafe repairs and re-creates. We launch more language translations for our support materials plus reflections on a play called ‘Oil’ and a new book on responding to the advertising industry.* --- **HAPPY BIRTHMONTH** **10 years of Transition Network: the early days…** As Transition Network turns ten, Rob Hopkins looks back to when it all began. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/10years/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/10years/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **THINKING ALOUD** **Richard Heinberg on ‘America First’.** “Transition is more important than ever in a world of Donald Trump”, Richard Heinberg tells us. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/richard-heinberg-transition-important-ever-world-donald-trump/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/richard-heinberg-transition-important-ever-world-donald-trump/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **Transition and Degrowth on a Caribbean island** Degrowth and Transition debated on Dominican TV show with Naresh Giangrande and Richard Swift, author of ‘SOS Alternatives to Capitalism’ and an editor of the New Internationalist Magazine. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/transition-meets-degrowth-caribbean-island/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/transition-meets-degrowth-caribbean-island/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **DOING STUFF** **How Farnham UK’s Repair Café Takes a Bite Out of Waste** Martin Charter reports on the two years of Farnham’s Repair Cafe that also has a ‘creative zone’ for broken consumer products that can’t be repaired. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/farnham-uks-repair-cafe-takes-bite-waste/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/farnham-uks-repair-cafe-takes-bite-waste/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **SUPPORT** **Transition Ingredients Cards: in English, Italian, French and Chinese!** Our great Transition resource, the Transition Ingredients Cards, are now available in four languages. You can download them for free here: [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/transition-ingredients-cards-english-italian-chinese/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/transition-ingredients-cards-english-italian-chinese/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) **‘Le Guide Essentiel de la Transition‘.** Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer la publication de la version française du ‘Le Guide Essentiel de la Transition‘. ‘Essential Guide to Doing Transition’ published in French is a wonderful addition, joining the English and Spanish versions already existing, and the forthcoming Russian and Chinese versions. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/essential-guide-transition-published-french/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/essential-guide-transition-published-french/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **PLAY REVIEW** **Hilary Jennings interviews playwright Ella Hickson about her play ‘Oil’.** A central concern was a feeling that our freedom in the West was based on something that was finite. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/freedom-based-something-thats-finite-ella-hickson-oil/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/freedom-based-something-thats-finite-ella-hickson-oil/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **BOOK REVIEW** **Advertising Shits In Your Head** Rob Hopkins reviews a new book which argues that the best strategy for dealing with the advertising industry is to take it on headfirst. [transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/book-review-advertising-shits-head/](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org.dedi2835.your-server.de//news-and-blog/book-review-advertising-shits-head/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) --- **QUOTE OF THE MONTH** *“10 years have flown past in a blur. Transition is now active in thousands of communities around the world, in over 50 countries.”* [Rob Hopkins](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/10years/?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org)