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Joanna Blythman on the Power of “lots and lots of little projects”

Joanna Blythman is a journalist and author who writes about food and food issues. Her book The Food We Eat had a huge impact on me when I read it nearly 20 years ago. She remains one of the most incisive and insightful writers on food issues. I had wanted

Web maintenance update July 2013

Since we began this phase, we have spent more than the estimate on maintenance, and doubled the server’s memory under the pressure of use; so it has been more expensive than we thought. It is also a great indicator of a shift to a different, more formal way of

One Year In Transition and the power of alternatives to university

Registration for 1YT 2013-14 is now open. The cost will be £1500 for the year. There is a conversation going on at the margins of higher education that is just beginning to be heard in the market place. It goes something like this: If the future that we are educating

“When people get together, things happen”: Transition Streets hits Australia!

Transition Streets was initiated by Transition Town Totnes in 2010 and won the 2011 Ashden Award for Behaviour Change. Since its inception, it has been run with almost 700 households in Totnes and district, with, on average, each household reducing its emissions by 1.3 tonnes (a saving of around

Communications update July 2013

Following the board approval to pursue a range of communications activities over April to June to support the launch of ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’, we have been working on all sorts of streams; some familiar, some totally new. Things are now calming down and we are holding after

Bill Mollison and one of my key ‘Doing Stuff’ moments

On June 4th 1976, the Sex Pistols played a gig at Manchester Free Trade Hall that has gone down in history as one of the most famous gigs ever, credited as having inspired a huge number of influential bands, record labels, designers, even, according to the late Tony Wilson in

Mike Small on the Power of When Lots of People Do Stuff

You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at it from the context of what happens when you add all