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We last spoke to Michael Shuman just over three years ago.  He is author of several books on local economic development, the most recent being Local Dollars, Local Sense. He is an attorney, an economist, and his current job title is Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets. Not every

Originally published last week at Co-operative News under the headline The ‘Silicon Valley’ of community resilience. My town, Totnes, on the south Devon coast, is the UK’s first Transition town. Over the past eight years, it has catalysed over 40 projects, many of them co-operatives – such as a community

Here is the second of my monthly pieces for the Guardian’s Live Better Challenge: When Gail Jackson put an invitation through every door on her street in St Albans, inviting her neighbours round to her house to discuss doing Transition Streets, she didn’t really expect any of them

“And God said, “Let there be light” and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected…” Spike Milligan We hope to do better…. We have created the West Solent Solar Co-operative to generate renewable energy for, and by, the local

Ttech meet 17/04/14 Bristol 13:00 – 17:00 Ben Chris Ed Sam Actions ~~~~~~ Ed: edit procurement principles google doc ALL create invoices for meeting to cover 4 hours meeting and travel cost (Ben include mileage, Chris train ticket) and send to Ed with TNv3 budget reference Ed: create

Katrina Brown is a Professor of Social Sciences based at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at Exeter University. The three key themes her research centres on are Resilience, Vulnerability and Development, Dynamics of Change in Coastal Social Ecological-Systems and People, Poverty and Carbon.  As someone who has published papers about