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The web project is at a point where we are at the limits of our current website and platform at a time when the organisation is about to make a seismic shift. The site has become like an old apple tree; much loved and quite admirable, yet out of control

Meetings with Initiatives. Transition network has recently employed a new Delivery Director Sarah McAdam and myself Mike Thomas as the Transition Initiative Support Coordinator. Transition Network is currently developing a strategy lead by Sarah which you can read more about here. In the past two months as part of a

For this month’s theme we’ll be exploring, in the run up to Christmas, our relationship with “stuff” from different angles.  We start with today’s post which, among other things, takes you for a drive along the M5 motorway, delivers your Christmas gifts by drone, and argues that

Welcome to Transition Network’s Austerity Basics series.  Ever wondered what austerity actually means?  Where the idea comes from?  Whether it actually works?  Over 9 days in late November 2013, we posted a series of answers to the most commonly-wondered-about aspects of austerity, with the help of James Meadway, Senior

For our last piece in our month’s theme of austerity and how Transition responds to it, we head to Totnes, one of the first Transition initiatives.  What does austerity look like there, and how is Transition Town Totnes responding to it?  We asked Frances Northrop, TTT Project Manager. While

I’ve been thinking a lot in the past months about the question of sustainability in the long and short term – not of our society, or the planet but of people and groups within the Transition movement itself. I was at the Transition Camp in October, where a great mix