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Story Giants of Eden – A Transition Tale from Penrith

Last Midsummer I was walking in the north of England, and had the pleasure of staying with Nigel Jenkins of PACT – the Penrith & Eden transition group. Last week Nigel sent me this delightful tale of tales…. “Story Giants of Eden has been unfolding as a major cultural project in

Transition Town Tynedale (UK) and Tyne hydro scheme

Just received this from Transition Town Tynedale, requesting online supporters for their generating scheme on the Tyne river. “We are involved in a potentially very exciting scheme to generate electricity from the river Tyne, the profits of which would support the local community. In order to have a good chance

London’s Community Farm – a crazy idea that might just work?

Taking food resilience seriously… As food prices soar and the absurdity of many aspects of the globalised food system become clearer (eg in Guatemala), what could be more appealing than participating in a community farm. This recently came in from our friends at Bioregional Have you ever dreamt about owning

Social Reporting Project call for reporters

Introducing the Social Reporting Project – finding the new narrative for Transition Calling all writers, photographers citizen journalists, community blog editors and everyone who has a story to tell. This September we’re launching an innovative and ambitious Social Reporting project that sets out to explore and communicate the different issues

Project sharing engine funding bid

We are applying to the Nominet Trust for some funding to build our ‘Projects Sharing Engine’. Like the News Sharing Engine (which was for news distribution), its intention is to distribute the movement’s project information to Initiatives’ websites, enabling webmasters to easily embed all the functionality of our projects

A Heart Warming Visit to a Neighbour

My heart is singing! Almost 8 months after returning from my famed and almost fantastical to me now walk around our beautiful country, and after probably the most challenging start of year I have ever had, I today tasted again of the nectar I imbibed on that six month pilgrimage.

The Draught-Busting Phenomena: Saving money, saving carbon and staying warm

Two years ago in February 2009, Sarah Nicholl from Transition Belsize went along to a composting workshop in South London. There she met Sue Sheehan a Green Communities Champion for Lambeth who was working with Hyde Farm CAN on a project they created called “Draught Busting Saturdays”. Draught busting teaches