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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

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,

On being followed by Bethany. And Lily.

The internet and social media have so changed our world and our brains in a relatively brief period of time. Expressions like “I’ll check in my spam folder” would have led to puzzled, indeed slightly revolted looks even 10 years ago, but nowadays we’re all at it. While

New Events Toolkit for Transition initiatives published

The REconomy Project’s ‘Events Toolkit for Transition Initiatives’ has just been launched. It is one of three new ‘how to’ guides that the REconomy Project is launching this month. The Events Toolkit, written by Jo Taylor, shares learning (about what works, and what doesn’t), outlines essential tasks, and