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Adding information to the site

How to add things to the site This site is mostly made up of information added by the people, initiatives and projects that make up Transition. There are a lot of things you can add to the site, from initiative profiles to forum posts, to comments and project profiles. We

Find land or buildings for community enterprises

Finding buildings and land where we can set up community enterprises We were recently alerted to a new service “The Place Station“, which appears to fill in a huge gap in our aspirations to identify land and buildings suitable for socially beneficial purposes. This service is a bit like a

Find out about local energy projects in the UK

It’s all about sharing energy stories Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, tireless champion of chickens, fish and catalyser of LandShare has extended the latter idea into a new initiative – energyshare. energyshare is becoming a really credible web destination for the vast subject of local energy – it’s an online social network,

Web project survey February 2011

The website will be one year old in March and we’re celebrating by doing a survey to see how you are finding it. We’ve done a lot of work and it looks like it’s doing its job, so we’d like to know which bits can be

The “tragedy of the commons” disproven yet again

At school, the history class that covered the “Tragedy of the Commons” didn’t ring quite true. My subsequent reading as an adult showed that as a theory it doesn’t hold water unless you’re working on the assumption that all the “rational economic beings” operate for purely selfish

January round up of what’s happening in Transition

(This is a copy of the article on Transition Culture with thanks to Helen and Rob as ever) We’re starting in Hungary with exciting news…because Tracey, Isti and Peti from Global Projekt and from the first Transition initiative in Hungary – Klimabarát Wekerle – have been busy working on the

Social Enterprise information packs for community groups

Local United is a new group of climate change groups dedicated to sharing their experience of working on climate change issues at the community level as social enterprises. In their own words: Local United brings together and supports community activists who are setting up social enterprises to address the challenges