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During February we’ll be hearing people’s ‘Step Up’ moments, the moment they decided to step across into helping make Transition happen rather than just listening or talking about it.  Our first comes from David Pitcher: “In London, very few families cycle with their children, despite their being lots

This month we will be exploring the theme of resourcing your group.  Although we will be touching on issues of funding and finance, our explorations will be about much more than just that.  The resources available to a group, and how it harnesses those resources, will be a greater factor

We published a taster of this piece earlier in the week, introducing Andy Lipkis, founder and President of Tree People. It’s a fitting way to draw to a close our month on ‘Scaling up’.  Andy was raised in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, at a time when the smog

In a guest post, Ben Brangwyn, Transition Network’s International Development Co-ordinator, tells the story of the scaling up of Transition Network internationally, the emergence of the international Hubs and where it’s all going now. Introduction This is a little tale of the spread of Transition internationally. We think

And so our month on ‘Scaling up’ draws to a close.  It has been such a busy and thought-provoking theme that I thought I’d pick up on a few of the threads before we draw it to a close.  I also generated a new term to describe myself which

Scaling up – next week, the world! Introduction This is a little tale of the spread of Transition internationally. We think it’s a relevant story for Transitioners because of the parallels that happen across all sorts of levels of scale. Some of the conflicts, dynamics and prejudices that I see

Ecopoetry: a definition Ecopoetry goes several steps further than traditional nature poetry by recognising the interdependence of all life on earth and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature in a modern world ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power.                                                           (an adaptation from a definition published on