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If your kitchen table is like ours, a stream of unrelated inanimate and animate objects drift across its surface on a daily basis: a puncture repair kit; pots of PVA glue (without their tops); electricity bills, the cat…  Yesterday I was thrilled to see my copy of 21 Stories of

Thanks to Anne and Blake for sending me this – an account of their research into how inner Transition is integrated within initiatives in Canada. Recognizing Position and Place: Lessons from Inner Transition in Canada      Inner Transition is arguably central to larger Transition philosophy, despite the short shrift it gets in

With fewer than three weeks to go until the start of COP21, the UN’s climate negotiations in Paris, a question arises: Will this gathering make the slightest difference?  For Rob Hopkins, editor of a new book from Transition Network, 21 Stories of Transition, answer is yes – but a different

Last week we introduced a piece of work we have been doing at Transition Network called ‘The Transition Story’, which is also our theme for November and December.  In a blog entitled ‘The Transition Story: time to stop talking about climate change?‘, I gave a brief overview of the basic

One of the most innovative and well received elements of the International Transition Conference 2015 was the Requiem for the Global Industrial Growth System. Attended by over 80 people it gave a rare opportunity to reflect on our relationship to this vast system, to imagine witnessing its dying, and symbolically

Yesterday we gathered with Totnes Mayor Jacqi Hodgson to formally launch our new book ’21 Stories of Transition’.  Our last publication, ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’ was launched into the River Dart two years ago with the previous Totnes Mayor in a boat fashioned from a pumpkin.  We did