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Paul Kingsnorth on Crowdfunding

One way of resourcing a Transition initiative that has grown in popularity in recent years is crowdfunding. One of the best crowdfunding appeals I came across recently was by author and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project Paul Kingsnorth to crowdfund his new book The Wake. The appeal met its

Transition Town Brixton’s Shared Space: the story of an event

Today we have a guest post from Transition Town Brixton’s Sibylle Mansour. Reused and remade – values and ideas for engaging and connecting Blessed be serendipity! Upon starting to write the opening paragraph to this article, I read Rob’s Resourcing your Initiative blog post and was pleased to find

Letter to the BBC – talking about Climate Change

Your ‘Step Up’ moments: No.7: Ann Owen

When Rob asked me to recount my “Stepping up” moment, I immediately experienced that stomach lurch again that is probably more familiar to you in moments of utter panic when you realise you’ve tripped and are about to tumble down the stairs, or when you’re going too fast

Zenrainman on the rooftop paddy fields of Bangalore

I was recently in Amsterdam at an event at which one of the other speakers was S. Vishwanath, better known as Zenrainman. He spoke of his work in Bangalore, where he is working to get the city to look at its resources in a very different way. Could the city

Transition Marlborough: fuel poverty is hot topic at meeting with energy minister

Fuel poverty and potential solutions for residents of the Marlborough area were some of the hot topics debated at a meeting with energy minister Greg Barker, at Marlborough’s Conservative Club. Dr Sam Page of Transition Marlborough, along with Marlborough area residents with ‘hard-to-treat homes’, attended a constituency meeting with

An Open Letter to the BBC on Lord Lawson’s Today Programme appearance

To Jamie Angus, the Editor, Today Programme. Dear Jamie, I am writing to complain in the strongest terms about your piece on this morning’s programme on climate change and the current floods which featured Sir Brian Hoskins and Lord Nigel Lawson. I write both in my own capacity and