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Last night I watched the latest episode of Panorama, ‘Sleepless Britain’.  It explored the problems of sleeplessness faced by many families, with visits to hospital caused by poor sleep having tripled in the last 10 years.  A generation of young people not getting as much sleep as they should be

One of our ‘21 Stories of Transition‘, the Transition Community Cafe, is recognised with a prestigious award. We were thrilled recently to receive the following press release regarding the REFRESH Food Waste Solution Contest: 'We are happy to announce that the Transition Surplus Food Project has been selected by

This month represents the 10th anniversary of the founding of Transition Network.  That’s Transition Network the organisation you understand, not the network of Transition groups which the organisation was set up to support.  We thought that as we begin this anniversary month, it might be good to look back

I first came across this book when I became one of the 202 people who supported the crowdfunder that enabled it to be published, purely on the basis that any book with that particular title deserves to be published.  The book itself arrived the other day, and it’s fantastic

Martin Charter reports on Farnham’s Repair Cafe . It’s an international movement launched in the Netherlands. According to the Repair Café Foundation, there are now more than 950 repair cafés worldwide with 18 in the UK. Repair cafés offer individuals with ‘fixing’ expertise to come together to perform a

Transition Network’s Naresh Giangrande was recently in Dominica in the Caribbean, and while there he was part of a show with Earthbook TV which brought him together with Richard Swift, author of ‘SOS Alternatives to Capitalism’ and an editor of the New Internationalist Magazine. The whole thing was presented