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Crystal Palace Transition Town win ‘People’s Food Garden’ award

The festival day where Crystal Palace Transition Town’s Westow Park Community Garden was first unveiled to the public. Here’s a great story about the power of just doing stuff, from Crystal Palace in London. I heard recently that Crystal Palace Transition Town (CPTT) had won the People’s

“To me it’s almost like magic”: The NE Seattle Tool Library opens for business

Here is a wonderful story from Seattle. I am indebted to Susan Gregory and Leo Brodie for their time in telling me about it. In North Ravenna, NE Seattle, a rather exciting project has emerged from Sustainable NE Seattle, the local Transition initiative. Inspired by a similar project in West

Progress report: Project Sharing Engine

This is most of our lastest progress report for the Project Sharing Engine project. We remain grateful to the Nominet Trust, who fund this work. Overview Technical, design and engagement work on the Project Sharing widget was progressing satisfactorily. At our last report, we were about to hold the Alpha

Setting the date on blog posts

This is for website editors who need to set the date of their item. It is of particular interest to the Social Reporters’ editor of the week who needs to work on items before the publication date, then set the publication date so that the item appears correctly on the

The Sacred and the Profane

In May 2010 I was walking between Waltham Abbey and Cambridge on my journey to collect Transition Tales. You can read the story of that in chapter 5 of my book “Tales of Our Times” – The Sacred and The Profane. It all started like this… “Waltham Abbey, says the Isle

Transition Network joins charities and co-ops to urge government not to pull the plug on large community energy projects

Organisations with more than 12 million members today urged the Government to fulfil its commitments and avoid pulling the plug on larger community owned energy schemes. The membership organisations, which include: The Co-operative; the National Trust; Friends of the Earth; and Transition Network amongst others, believe that the Energy Bill

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