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The Transition FAMILY Connections Game

This is the blog we are using to follow the Transition FAMILY Connections Game – sending presents to Copenhagen using the Six Degrees of Separation concept. The idea is that people that cannot be present at the meeting of the Hubs of the Transition Movement, can be represented in a symbolic

The Transitioner’s Digest (July)

This month our theme has been ‘Celebration’. We have set out to explore 5 questions: Why do you celebrate? Why is celebration important? What are the ingredients of good celebration? What is the wider context for celebration? What is the personal context for celebration? We started by addressing some of

Divest! Then what?

Last year when I visited the US, Peter Lipman (Chair of Transition Network) and myself had supper with representatives from 3 large philanthropic organisations there. At one point, Peter asked “so do you invest in coal?” There was some discomfort around the table, and the reply was “no, coal is

Fiona Ward on learning to celebrate a £10,000 failure

One of the things I love most about working for the Transition Network is the cheerful disclaimer… “Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact. We truly don’

Sophy Banks on Creating a Culture of Celebration

When I was about 12 a friend of my sister came on holiday with my family. We were quite a typical family of three irritable siblings – when someone started singing or playing an instrument another child was guaranteed to tell them to “Shut up, that sounds horrible”. We were continually

Web service strategic update July 2014

This is a brief update on where the web project is at the end of July 2014 * People / management structure * Timeline * Architecture * Urgent big jobs: IIRS * Urgent big jobs: Support framework * Very important long term job: Move onto a new site * Budget * Meeting notes * Links to earlier strategy updates People

Funding support for community energy peer mentoring!

Co-operatives UK have just announced some really useful-looking funding to enable mentoring and peer-to-peer support for community energy initiatives. It can be used either by Transition groups seeking mentoring support for their emergent community energy companies, or for established initiatives who would like to be able to offer that support.