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Paul Chatterton on Lilac Leeds Co-housing

Paul Chatterton is one of the founders of the Lilac Cohousing project in Leeds. BY day he works as a geographer at Leeds University. Lilac is a fascinating model for a new, more equitable and ecological approach to providing affordable housing. When we met Paul to learn more, we started

Our month on rethinking real estate: Why I’m proud to be a SWIMBY

You’re passing a field and you see a large hoarding bearing the words ‘New Homes Coming Soon’. What feelings do those words inspire? Delight to see ‘economic activity’ underway? Thrilled that ‘place-making’ is happening? Or a sense of despair, impotence and violation? As more and more such signs pop

October 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

Getting connected in different ways seems to be a thread in the stories in the newsletter this month. Firstly the website theme of “Making Space for Nature” has a range of interviews and articles, then our world round-up plus the Transition hubs get together. Several takes on the Climate March

Coming Soon! The First Transition Network Roadshow – St. Andrews!

Following our successful pilot in Lancaster, Transition Network is on the road, and the next stop is St Andrews, Scotland, October 10/11th, 2014. We’d love you to join us. In collaboration with Transition St Andrews, it will take place with Transition Network’s trademark, participatory conference style of

Transitioners’ Digest (September 2014)

This month we have been exploring the theme of “Making Space for Nature” from a wide range of different angles. We started with an editorial piece which argued that one of the key things that nature can bring our work doing Transition is a sense of wonder. Something to do

Hayley Spann on What Nature Taught Me

“Hold a question in your mind and allow nature to answer it by simply listening with all your senses. Let it lead the way in this next step in your life”. Those were the instructions I was given, one sunny day in July in a protected natural woodland enclosure beside

Hearing all the voices to make the New Story..

Once upon a time two people got married and lived happily ever after in the place of their dreams.. Going to the wedding of two friends in the Findhorn community in north eastern Scotland was the start of my contact with the Findhorn Foundation New Story Summit as Naresh and