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June 2015 – Transition Network Newsletter

We start with news of great workshops at the Conference and how you can be part of the COP21 story. Looking in depth at REconomy including launch of ‘how to guides’. Insights from a range of Initiatives, plus Thinking Aloud, some new videos about Inner Transition and book reviews. CONFERENCE

What does REconomy look like … in Portugal?

Creating livelihood is more than earning a living. It is about quality of life, about being in relationship with the local community one is a part of. What does it take for a community to support its inhabitants to find their place and co-create a healthy, resilient local ecology that

Transition Black Isle celebrate success of their Million Miles project

The results of the initiative, which aimed to cut car use on the Black Isle by a million miles a year, were unveiled at a presentation and barbecue at Glachbeg Croft, near North Kessock. Figures based on a baseline survey and subsequent monitoring revealed that more than 1.35 million

Unveiling three essential new REconomy guides for Transition groups

Today we’d like to introduce two more free guides from the REconomy Project. We already heard from Jo Taylor about the Events Toolkit for Transition Initiatives, so we asked Anna Lodge from REconomy to tell us more about the other two… Can you tell us about these two new

An interview with Julian Dobson: “It’s time to raise a glass to the New Economy”

Julian Dobson is a writer and researcher, as well as one of the co-founders of New Start magazine. His area of special interest is community regeneration and how to create better places. We loved his recent book ‘How to Save Town Centres’ so much that we gave it a glowing

Tina Clarke: Community Engagement & the Transition Principles

Today’s guest blog on the theme of community engagement is by Tina Clarke, a community organiser and consultant in the US. She is also a Certified Transition Trainer who is part of the international training team and a community resilience consultant, as well as being one of the trainers

One Minute Review: The Art of Natural Building

‘The Art of Natural Building’ was one of my very favourite books when I first got my hands on a copy back in … . Here was the distilled learning of the natural building movement thus far, a beautiful exploration of the wide range of natural building methods, from strawbale to cob,