Sign in Subscribe

Latest

Introducing … our new website!

It is with great joy and delight that today we present you with the result of many months of hard work by the team at Transition Network – our new website! It’s not just a re-design. We’ve stripped things back to make it more readable and accessible, and

Podcast: The caring town fair

Last Saturday I went to the great Caring Town Fair, organised by Caring Town Totnes, a great initiative that has emerged from Transition Town Totnes exercising their ‘power to convene’. Caring Town describes itself thus: “we’re a network of public, voluntary and private organisations who care about our community

Before President Trump, fetch wood, carry water. After President Trump, fetch wood, carry water.

I watched the sun rise on the day Donald Trump became President Trump, sitting at my laptop, watching the clouds turn yellow, watching the results roll in. I had barely slept the night before, tossing and turning, wanting to turn on my phone and see how it was going, but

Bubbles, Struggles, Soils and Troubles

By Sophie Galleymore Bird: On Monday November 31st I returned from Romania; ﬁttingly for Halloween, feeling like one of the shambling undead after five days at the Expo Transilvania in Cluj Napoca at the Nyeleni European Forum on Food Sovereignty, organised by the global peasants’ movement La Via Campesina. I

Hub of the Month: Belgium

Each month we’ll be finding out more about one of our national Transition Hubs. We start with Réseau Transition, the Belgian Transition Network for French-speaking initiatives. The first meetings between Belgian French-speaking initiatives started in 2011, and led to the first “modest but awesome” meeting between initiatives,

What the long, red-legged scissorman did next

It’s not often I get to have a go at writing fiction. As a contribution to the just-published There was a knock at the door: 23 modern folk tales for troubling times, I had a go at updating The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb from Heinrich Hoffmann’

10 essential ingredients of a “Good Brexit”

It’s been a fascinating week in the evolving absurdity of Brexit. The High Court decided that the terms of the Brexit negotiations needed to be agreed by Parliament, rather than being decided behind the closed doors of Cabinet meetings. The government will appeal to the Supreme Court and, with