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Why I despise self checkouts with a rare and unbridled passion

It’s time for a rant about SACAT. “About what?” you might most reasonably cry. ‘Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminals’, that’s what. In plain English, it’s those self checkout things that are taking over shops up and down the land. In 2008 there were 92,600 such units

Jo Hamilton on why monitoring and evaluation matters for Transition

What role does measuring and evaluating your impacts have to play for Transition initiatives? How important is it, and how straightforward is it in a group that is already busy “doing stuff”? Jo Hamilton is a researcher at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute whose research focuses on those very

The April 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Let’s start on the UK’s south coast, where Transition Town Worthing’s annual beach clean-up was given a boost through some funding from Southern Water, which covered their insurance and 100 high visibility jackets. Barbara Shaw from TTW (right, with David Bone from Southern Water) told The Worthing

The impact we’ve having: Marie Goodwin of Transition Town Media

“What’s the catch?” she asked as she idled up to the table. The yard was filled with blankets and tables, boxes and miscellany scattered over almost every square inch except for the well-marked paths. Our information table was welcoming people at the entrance, and this question was asked over

The impact we’re having: Nicola Vernon of Transition Town Greyton

Greyton Transition Town has been in existence for just over two years and is beginning to have a significant impact on our community. The one way which stands out for all of our community is what a great vehicle it is to bring about social integration. The context of Greyton

Nic Marks on measuring wellbeing and happiness

Nic Marks founded the Centre for Wellbeing at the London-based think tank New Economics Foundation and also more recently founded Happiness Works. Much of his work has focused on measuring wellbeing and happiness, as captured in his excellent talk from 2010. When thinking about how a Transition initiative might measure

Transition in the West Bank?

We held our first training in the Holy Land in Bethlehem, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, hosted by Sami Awad of the Holy Land Trust. I had few expectations and lots of questions. I wondered if the Transition model and process holds anything of any use for Palestinians who