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Our new support framework is here – give it a go and let us know what you think

A guest post from Michael Thomas, Transition Network’s Support Co-ordinator. For the past 9 months we have been creating a new support framework which draws on the various resources that Transition Network has produced over recent years, experience gained from Transition Training and feedback from across the movement.

Transition Network scoop a 2014 PEA Award!

Transition Network’s Rob Hopkins was the proud winner of a People Environment and Achievement (PEA) Award at the awards event on London’s South Bank last week. He was one of three winners in the Campaigner of the Year category, alongside: Cat Fletcher – I Love Freegle – Resource Goddess Ajay

Looking Back Over 100 Years: an interview with Douglas Matthews

In 2008, when I was researching my PhD looking at Transition Town Totnes, I went out to visit Douglas Matthews at his farmhouse near Staverton. Douglas was 99, and still slept in the bedroom he had been born in. He died a few months later having just reached the age

Unveiling the 2014 Transition Christmas TV Advert

I have sometimes been asked “if you had a prime time TV advertising slot to promote Transition, what would you put on it?” This is a good time to ask that, as our TV channels pour out relentless TV adverts in the run-up to that special time of year

Are we doing it right? Let us know.

It’s now 17 months since Transition Culture moved from its home at www.transitionnetwork.org to its new place on this website. We have introduced a number of changes, in particular the monthly themes, the monthly Transitioner’s Digest and the bigger editorial ‘think piece’ at the start of

Scottish Transition groups join call for fracking moratorium

Three Scottish Transition groups, Black Isle, Stirling and Linlithgow joined with 23 other organisations to call for a moratorium on unconventional gas extraction in Scotland. The letter, published in the The Herald Scotland, runs as follows: “We, an alliance of groups from Scottish communities directly or indirectly at risk from

Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’: a review

Reading a Naomi Klein book is always a deeply absorbing experience. In a sense, the sheer size of them means you have no choice other than to be absorbed (This Changes Everything runs to almost 600 pages). Her two previous masterworks, No Logo and The Shock Doctrine were mind-altering