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You may have noticed that it is the 11th, and we still haven’t started a new theme yet, as has been our pattern for the past couple of years.  October, for me, involved a huge amount of travel and time on trains.  I went to St Andrews for the

Back in December 2009 when a few Belper residents first met to talk about this new thing called the Transition Network, the community of Belper was already actively battling the mighty Tesco;  they had bought the derelict Thornton’s site in the centre of the town, by the River Derwent,

One of my highlights at the recent Transition Roadshow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland was a workshop led by Angus Hardie, Director of the Scottish Community Alliance.  He talked about the forthcoming Community Empowerment Bill.  “I like the sound of that” I thought.  The workshop proved fascinating,

Our theme this month has been ‘Rethinking Real Estate’.  It began with an editorial piece, Why I’m Proud to be a SWIMBY, which framed the month.  It introduced a new term, SWIMBY (as in “Something Wonderful In My Back Yard”, as opposed to NIMBY), and outlined a ‘SWIMBY Manifesto’