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When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story?  What options remain open to them?  As South Hams District Council planners grant the Duke of Somerset permission to close down the last working dairy farm in Totnes to replace

We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our dear friend, Transition Free Press.  TFP, as it was more affectionately known, had, in its short life, become a lighthouse for those bobbing on the seas of Transition, a shining beacon of our collective emergent culture.  Ever since its

I was up early on a Saturday morning to get up to Centre for Alternative Technology in Mid Wales to the Zero Carbon Powys conference organised by Powys Transition and Low Carbon Communities Network (PTLCC) which is made up of a range of groups in the Powys area. In the

Shelter, originally published in 1973, is one of my favourite books.  Large format, black and white, a celebration of hand built shelters around the world.  I’ve had my copy for 20 years, and still pick it up and find new stuff in it.  Tiny Homes is Kahn’s latest

January 14th saw the launch of a new Economic Resilience Study (following in the footprints of the Blueprints/Evaluations undertaken so far by various communities), this time produced by Transition Buxton in Derbyshire.  The report, which included a Foreword by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby, was unveiled at

Christophe McGlade is a research associate in energy materials modelling at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.  He recently co-authored, with Paul Ekins, a paper called “The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2°C”, a paper whose stark call to leave the substantial majority