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Announcing the 4 Transition Roadshow hosts!

We are delighted to announce the four initiatives selected to host our four 2014-15 Transition Roadshows. We had 9 applications from Transition initiatives across the UK, and after much deliberation can reveal that the hosts chosen are Transition University St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, Transition Penwith in Cornwall, Transition Bristol

A Celebration of Kinsale College’s Amphitheatre

Here’s a lovely piece by Ian Wild, a celebration of a project very close to my heart… Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt? Around the turn of the

10 tips for great Transition celebrations

As someone who visits quite a lot of Transition groups, I see the same thing over and over. People say “we don’t feel like we are making much of a difference, we’ve not done much”. I then ask them to tell me the story of what they’ve

Transition in the Heart of England

The final stage of my latest Transition Tales tour took me to exciting new territory; the Cotswolds. Here I was to find plenty of Transition activity and some very enthusiastic and inspirational people. The region between Oxford in the east and Cheltenham in the west is high land; a plateau

Sara Ayech: “Why Transition is all about politics”

The Transition movement sometimes claims to be apolitical, but I think that politics can be defined as any issue in which there is a conflict of resources, and a decision to be made on how to allocate them. Although Transition isn’t party political, it’s a global social movement

The Transitioners’ Digest (June)

This month our theme has been Transition and Politics. Here we digest into bite-sized pieces the month’s output to make it easier for you to find what interests you. We started with our editorial which asked “Is Transition political?”, whose conclusion could be summarised in the following paragraph: “The

Interview: Caroline Flint, Shadow Energy Minister

What would you say were the defining characteristics of Labour politics in relation to sustainability and climate change? The challenges of protecting our natural environment and dealing with a changing climate are immense. When it comes to government, actions speak louder than words – and Labour has a good record on