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Each month we’ll be finding out more about one of our national Transition Hubs.  We start with Réseau Transition, the Belgian Transition Network for French-speaking initiatives.   The first meetings between Belgian French-speaking initiatives started in 2011, and led to the first “modest but awesome” meeting between initiatives,

It’s not often I get to have a go at writing fiction. As a contribution to the just-published There was a knock at the door: 23 modern folk tales for troubling times, I had a go at updating The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb from Heinrich Hoffmann’

It’s been a fascinating week in the evolving absurdity of Brexit.  The High Court decided that the terms of the Brexit negotiations needed to be agreed by Parliament, rather than being decided behind the closed doors of Cabinet meetings.  The government will appeal to the Supreme Court and, with

The release of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film ‘Before the Flood’, near the end of a US election in which climate change has gone all but unmentioned, is to be celebrated.  As is the fact that it has been made available free online, and within the first 2 days of

Here is a blog by Rob Hopkins from March 2013: Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes is famed for supposedly being one of the most haunted castles in Britain. It is said that the ghosts can still be seen of the Pomeroy brothers riding to their doom over the castle cliffs

Book Review: Born on Third Base: a one percenter makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home and committing to the common good by Chuck Collins.  Chelsea Green Publishing.  * Win a copy in our exclusive competition below! * I am regularly, and rightly, asked about the extent to which the