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Before the Christmas holidays  I was lucky enough to be invited to two very different cities; Sheffield, city of steel, nestling amongst 7 hills and 5 river valleys, the Don, Loxley, Rivelin, Porter and the Sheaf, and Edinburgh, capital city of Scotland, perched on the side of the remains of

Detroit took a huge hit when the automobile industry collapsed in the US after oil hit $147/barrel in July 2008. Nearly half the city moved somewhere else, most of the national retailers scarpered and vacant lots are everywhere. And amid this chaos, the crisis has given rise to some

I’ve been doing some tidying up of the Transition Towns Youtube Channel and thought an update is in order. And a request for help. The channel has been ‘between stools’ for some time, so in need of love, and following discussions about the importance of Story, and videos as

Twitter is a noisy busy place that some love and others loathe. We think it’s very handy for Transition Towns, and maintain a twitter account, shared between Ed the web co-ordinator, Richard from New Forest Food, and James From Transition Towns New Zealand. We send out ‘tweets’ on this

Transition Voice – one to keep your eye on If you’re looking to extend your transition reading, I heartily recommend Transition Voice, an online mag produced in the US by partners Linsday and Erik Curren. It’s a great mix of interviews, probing essays and useful ideas. Here’s how

Economic Growth – can’t we think of something better? Peter Day – if you don’t recognise the name, you’ll certainly recognise his melifluous tones – visited Totnes a couple of weeks ago to probe into community level efforts towards something less daft than economic growth as a measure of our