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Youth volunteering opportunity in Portugal

Transition São Luís in Portugal has currently 2 open vacancies for youth volunteering through the European Voluntary Service, as part of a larger project coordinated by the municipality of Odemira, involving different associations in working in the rural context. Applications are open until the 22nd of March. You can find

The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land or In Praise of Boredom

Last night I watched the latest episode of Panorama, ‘Sleepless Britain’. It explored the problems of sleeplessness faced by many families, with visits to hospital caused by poor sleep having tripled in the last 10 years. A generation of young people not getting as much sleep as they should be

Fishguard’s Transition Cafe wins award!

One of our ‘21 Stories of Transition‘, the Transition Community Cafe, is recognised with a prestigious award. We were thrilled recently to receive the following press release regarding the REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest: 'We are happy to announce that the Transition Surplus Food Project has been selected by

March 2017 – Transition Newsletter

Find out how our ten years (wow!) of Transition shaped inspiration began. Also, Richard Heinberg (who spoke at our first conference) underlines our continued relevance; Dominican TV debates de-growth and Farnham’s Repair Cafe repairs and re-creates. We launch more language translations for our support materials plus reflections

10 years of Transition Network: the early days…

This month represents the 10th anniversary of the founding of Transition Network. That’s Transition Network the organisation you understand, not the network of Transition groups which the organisation was set up to support. We thought that as we begin this anniversary month, it might be good to look back

Book review: Advertising Shits In Your Head

I first came across this book when I became one of the 202 people who supported the crowdfunder that enabled it to be published, purely on the basis that any book with that particular title deserves to be published. The book itself arrived the other day, and it’s fantastic

How Farnham UK’s Repair Café Takes a Bite Out of Waste

Martin Charter reports on Farnham’s Repair Cafe . It’s an international movement launched in the Netherlands. According to the Repair Café Foundation, there are now more than 950 repair cafés worldwide with 18 in the UK. Repair cafés offer individuals with ‘fixing’ expertise to come together to perform a