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Don’t Spoil the Ship for a Ha’penny’s Worth o’ Tar (Day 171) September 16th

…says my partner during a phone call as I sit in the city centre of Plymouth for lunch, and I thoroughly enjoy the nautical reference for it sums up the day in many ways. I have never heard it said before but it surely must have been said many times

Funding opportunity: Plunkett/Big Lottery fund – local food systems

Calling communities – New project launched to investigate Local Food Systems A new project has been launched to investigate the practicalities that make local food systems work. Making Local Food Work is looking to work with 4 to 6 communities – both rural and urban – to develop resilient, co-operative activities to improve

Landshare launches groups tools

Our friends over at the magnificent Landshare have just launched a suite of nifty ‘online groups tools’ for landsharers wanting to set their local growing groups up online. They look handy – here’s the outline: You can now start a local group or register your existing group on Landshare with

Twibbons are go

Further to the last post about ‘twibbons‘ the ever active Chris Wells from TT Kensal to Kilburn has made up some very fine twibbons. No, it’s not as weird as it sounds. Twibbons are little ‘badges’ you add to your twitter profile to show your support. it takes a

The Turning Point Film

Our friends at the Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland have made a short film intended to inspire and empower Transition Initiatives (as we wade our way through what can sometimes seem like too much doom and gloom) with a story of people succeeding in translating their dreams to reality, and the

Transition Tring’s waste audit

Tring in Transition have been busy auditing the waste that local businesses generate and how they deal with it. This is a significant issue for many local initiatives (especially those in cities) so we appreciate them sharing their findings with us. It’s all too easy to think that business

Check your MP’s allotment motion

Thanks to Margaret from Transition Town West Kirby for bringing this to our attention – allotments are close to many of our hearts: Dear fellow Transitioners I’m sure you’re all aware that there is significant unmet demand for allotments in the UK. We did a survey of allotment waiting