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My friend Lucy Neal sent me a photo of me the other day, taken at the Transition Network conference in 2012 at Battersea Arts Centre.  On the final day of the event, we did a remarkable exercise, the Transition Town Anywhere High Street, designed and facilitated by Ruth Ben-Tovim

In which Sara, Pedro and Deborah, the new Transitionese team working on a project to expand the International Transition movement’s translation capacities, introduce themselves and the tools they will be using. And ask for support through a survey.  Following-up from the call sent out by Transition Network in

So George Osborne just delivered his budget.  In the same week, the Mauna Loa Observatory released data showing that the rise in CO2 concentrations in 2015 was the largest year-to-year increase during 56 years of research, up to 405.6 ppm, a level not seen in 15 million

Theresa O’Donohoe of Transition Ireland & Northern Ireland reports: The Great Awakening For many years energy, climate change or Transition were not on people’s radar in Ireland, but circumstances have been changing and people are now waking up to our energy challenges. A few years ago there was

I love doing Launch Online. I get to facilitate a group of like minded people as we discuss important, quirky, stimulating, and touching subjects that constantly delight me.  Griet from Belgium said of the last course: “This is the most energising, deep and at the same time very mind-provoking

Our theme for the next 2 months is ‘International’.  With the Transition movement now being active in over 50 countries, it feels like a good time to pause and reflect on how that is working, what it looks like, and the many wonderful things, and the challenges, that arise from

In which I visit an extraordinary venue in Paris and find myself painted on a window.  I was in Paris yesterday to speak at a place called La Recyclerie, at the invitation of UpCafe, an organisation that runs a series of talks about social innovation and sustainability.  The event had