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Light posting during August

As is the tradition here at TransitionNetwork.org, we’re taking it easy over August, reacharging our batteries, and trying to model being an organisation that takes its being as importantly as its doing. So there may be things posted here during the month, but not much. We hope you

What I submitted to the Museum of Fossil Fuels

The wonderful Happy Museum just opened an online Museum of Fossil Fuels, which they introduce like this: “We invite you to ponder what object would best represent the shift from our fossil fuel dominated present to a more sustainable future and donate it to our new virtual museum. Objects can

The EU wants to block Romania’s 51% local food shift. Who cares?

Amid all the mayhem and turmoil of recent weeks, here’s a news story you may have missed. The Romanian parliament unanimously passed an amendment to the country’s “Law on the Sale of Food Products” bill which states that every large supermarket in the country must ensure that 51%

Tony Blair, Godzilla, and the Banquet of Consequences.

In February 2003, in Dublin, I marched against the impending Iraq War alongside 100,000 other people. Similar protests took place around the world that day, including around a million people marching in London. Today, 13 years, and 250,000 violent deaths later, with millions of people displaced, we now

‘Tomorrow’ (‘Demain’) premieres in London: article and podcast

On Friday 1st July, at the Everyman Cinema in Muswell Hill, London, the film that has proven to be a phenomenon in France, ‘Tomorrow’ (or ‘Demain’) has its first formal screening. The film’s producers, Cyril Dion and Melanie Laurent, travelled from Paris to be there, as did some of

Transitioners’ Digest (May-June 2016): Renewal

Our theme has been ‘Springtime Renewal’, and we have cast our net far and wide. Our opening editorial piece looked at the sense of renewal that arises from the recent Hillsborough decision and what happens when a great wrong is finally named and addressed. We heard from Cat Johnson how