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Ruth Potts on the New Materialism

Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called The New Materialism, founder of Bread, Print and Roses, and organiser of the recent ‘Festival of Making’. She describes her work as “inviting people to fall in love with stuff in a good way”. We sat down with

When shock provides just the kick up the backside we need

It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that I never really got the whole keeping fit thing. I share an office with people whose idea of a good time is running across Dartmoor at night with a head torch on, hours in the gym or cycling across

How different would the world be if we paid the True Cost of food and farming?

What would our food system look like if the impacts of production on the environment and on public health were taken into account? At present the polluter doesn’t pay, and those producing food sustainably are not rewarded for positive outcomes. How might things work if the true costs of

Storyteller Steph Bradley on ‘Tales of our Times’, red flipflops and “stuff”

What’s it like to set off, shod only in a pair of flip-flops, with only as much “stuff” as you can fit in a rucksack, to spend months walking the land in search of Tales of Transition? In 2010, through wind and rain, sun and sleet, Steph Bradley journeyed

Reimagining Santa’s Grotto: The Restart Project

The mental image we were brought up with of Santa’s workshop was of hoards of elves working away making new stuff, painting wooden trains with paintpots and so on. But what if we were able to shift that image, and instead tell our children that the elves aren’t

The day I closed my Amazon account

I’ve done it. I’ve closed my Amazon account. I now stand before you as an ex-Amazon account-holder. I feel curiously shaky, but at the same time empowered, excited even. While opening a new Amazon account is easy as pie, closing one is another matter altogether. I’d like

Celebrating the marvel that is Transition Free Press

The fourth edition of Transition Free Press has just come out, and it is a Thing of Great Beauty. Transition has long created spaces in which people can engage their creativity, and TFP is one of the shining examples of that. It models a different approach to telling stories, to