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An August Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

This month’s round up is huge. Seriously. Get a cup of tea, a few biscuits, put your feet up and enjoy. It’s a cracker, and has stories from parts of the world we’ve never had before. So, sitting comfortably? Let’s get started with some groundbreaking local

The Transition initiative that started a new school

Many Transition initiatives find interesting ways to work with their local schools, from food-growing projects to Transition Tales to tree planting. But the story I want to share with you today is the tale of the Transition initiative which actually became a school, which set up a new school

What Rob Hopkins told the French President about life after growth

We wrote a while ago here about when Transition Network’s Rob Hopkins spoke at the An Innovative Society for the Twenty-First Century event in Paris, organised “under the aegis of” the President of France, which explored what life after growth might look like in the French context. The

Win up to £20,000 funding and support for your Open Eco-Homes event!

Linlithgow, Lewes, Totnes and Taunton are just four of the Transition initiatives we know of who have held or are due to hold Open Eco-Homes events. If you are a Transition group based in England and are planning to hold such an event event, then you could apply for

Naresh Giangrande introduces the Transition Launch Online training

Transition Network’s Transition Launch training, the training designed to support people getting started making Transition happen where they live is now up and running. Developed in partnership with Gaia University, it’s a fantastic new opportunity for people who, for one reason or another, struggle to find the time

Sophy Banks on bringing that ‘being on holiday’ feeling into busy working life

Today we have a guest post from Sophy Banks, as many of us return to work after a sun-soaked summer, on how to bring a balance of ‘being’ and ‘doing’ into that return to work, and also hear about a forthcoming training that will explore that balance in the

Jen Gale on the power of learning to sew

Over the next 3 days, we’ll be publishing the winners of our Transition Training competition, where people were invited to share stories of the course they did that changed their lives. Thanks to everyone who entered. In today’s first one, Jen Gale shares the power of learning how