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Manitou Springs is a small town with a population of 5100, located in Colorado at the foot of Pikes Peak. The town is home to 11 mineral spring fountains which many claim have healing powers. For me, it tastes like Vichy and I am happy to walk outside my door,

Here’s something new we’re going to try.  With our monthly theme we put out a lot of great content, and we felt people might like it if at the end of each month we gave an overview of what we’ve covered, the highlights and some key insights.

Today we have a guest post from Luis, an active member of a Transition Initiative in Portalegre em Transição in Portugal.    “We are in a semi-rural area, with a quite old population. There are still a lot of people we know who lived all their lives in direct contact with

I live in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.  From 2006, there was an organisation called Marlborough Climate Pledge, which worked to raise people’s awareness around the issues of peak oil and climate change.  In 2011, at a Green Drinks, there was a visiting speaker from Romsey, Hampshire, talking about how they

In the market town of Totnes in Devon, a small group of volunteers are redistributing produce that would have otherwise gone to waste, with inspiring results (an article I wrote for the Live Better section on the Guardian’s website).    It’s a Thursday afternoon and I’m in a

Through Transition I’ve been active in my community for years, trying to help people understand the importance of climate change and how it could impact on the lives of them and others in the future. I’ve seen all the hard data, digested all the scary graphs, seen all

I am in Israel. A place where my knowledge of history and religious upbringing shape what I know about this place. Catholicism, the Bible, and our modern media have created a picture in my mind of what this place, Israel, the Holy Land is. And yet now that I am