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It’s a Muddle in the Middle (day 40) May 7th

I sleep till gone 10 – it seems to be a pattern of mine that the first night in an urban setting knocks me out in a sort of stupor. I check my emails for urgent updates and Yahoo informs me we have a hung parliament! A historic moment. It feels

The Thames Downs Link and the A3 (Day 39) May 6th

I am astonished as I leave Dorking on the Thames Down Link to walk through, and spend the entire day walking though beautiful countryside. All my assumptions about these places that have hitherto been simply place names around and about London have been challenged and blown apart. I am delighted.

Transition Town Maidenhead’s Energy Cooperative launched

Meeting the energy challenge head on, together Transition Town Maidenhead has some very entrepreneurial characters. With the introduction of FITs (Feed in tariffs) for domestically produced energy, an opportunity has arisen for communities to save energy, reduce CO2 emissions, save money, create some wealth and share it around. Three transitioners

Mary, John, Michael, and Thomas (Day 38) May 5th

I have had such a good day that though my feet are travel weary and dusty I feel wonderful, energised; glad to be alive. SW Surrey is a lovely balmy kind of place; its atmosphere is soft, welcoming, calm and content. I wake in the 500 year old house on

Transition conference sessions listing now available

The conference team have shared the list of workshop sessions for the UK conference and I think you’re going to like it. What a range. What a list of sessions. Have a look at the UK conference 2010 sessions listings page and I challenge you to not like it.

Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan website launched

There is well deserved excitement in the Transition Town Totnes office as they launched their amazing Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) website yesterday. It’s lovely piece of work, well worth looking into. Here’s Rob’s description: Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me the greatest pleasure this morning to

The Ning situation

This is a post about Ning, who have announced their plans for moving to a solely paid model. There is also a forum topic on it in the new forums. This post offers some alternatives, our perspective on it, and a recommendation or two. You can read the whole thing