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From the Archive: Sophy Banks on The Power of Not Doing Stuff.

As part of our ‘From the Archive’ theme, today we revisit a blog from July 2013, an interview with Sophy Banks on ‘The Power of Not Doing Stuff’ (our theme at the time was ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff’. It is as relevant today as it was back then…

Exploring Transitions in Wuppertal

The day after the 10th anniversary of the Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes (has it really been that long?), I hopped on a succession of trains to head for Wuppertal, a city in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. Home to 350,000 people, it is sometimes called the

When Loorbach met Hopkins: on Transition and research

How might research best support, document and inform both the Transition movement and societal transitions more widely? Over the last couple of days, at Wuppertal University in Germany, a conference called the International Sustainability Transitions Conference has been taking place. One of its plenary sessions was called ‘Research and Practice

Camping in the Anthropocene

I spent a fair bit of August under canvas. We had good weather and bad. One night in particular it was as though we had erected our tent in a car wash which had been left on all night. When we awoke in the morning after a patchy night’s

Our new theme, ‘From the Archive’, kicks off in the bathroom.

On November 1st, we will be launching and entirely new, redesigned, rewritten, reimagined Transition Network website. While we may all have given the outward semblance of calm and tranquility over the past 6 months, behind the scenes the team here have been hard at it, creating something really quite wonderful

Resilience in Action!

Our thoughts go out to all those affected by the earthquake in central Italy – as we post this 241 people are known to have died, dozens are still trapped, many are homeless and aftershocks continue to rock the area. At this time of crisis, it may not surprise you to

Emerging a new Culture: exploring new ingredients.

Inner Transition Coordinator, Claire Milne, shares about the Cultural Emergence Leadership Training she recently participated in and the promise it holds for those of us longing to support our groups, communities, family or organisations to unleash their genius and gifts. As I sat there alone in the woods I found