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Why piling up £5 million and burning it is a stupid thing to do.

There are times when art is a wonderful thing, and other times, frankly, when needs to take a long hard look at itself. There has been much deserved recent celebration of various anniversaries of the emergence of punk. Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) did a great radio show about it,

Iceland’s 4 Keys to Real Wealth – a Love Letter

By Naresh Giangrande: What do I know? I just visited Iceland for nine days, having been asked to be a keynote speaker at a conference recently- titled a Tool kit for survival at the edge of the world. I am also one of the founders of Transition Towns. What I

The first Israeli Transition Gathering

By Yoav Egozi of the Transition Israel Hub: On the 24th of April we held our first Israeli Transition Gathering. It was held in Tivon, where our longest running TI is. Somewhere around 150-200 people from all over Israel took part in our celebration, and according to the feedback we

My Foreword for ‘Rising to the Challenge: the Transition Movement and People of Faith’

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, when asked about the differences between the world’s faiths, usually chooses instead to focus on what they have in common. “The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and

Ruah Swennerfelt on the Transition movement and people of faith.

Ruah Swennerfelt has just published a fascinating new addition to the literature on Transition. ‘Rising to the Challenge: the Transition Movement and People of Faith’ was published recently by the Quaker Institute for the Future (QIF), and, as Stephanie Kaza puts it in her endorsement of the book, “demonstrates the

Greyton Transition Town win 3 national awards!

By Nicola Vernon: South Africa’s only Transition Town in Greyton, in the Western Cape, swept the board at the country’s recent environmental awards, winning in three out of seven categories. The hat-trick saw Greyton acknowledged as an eco-Community, its Director, Marshall Rinquest, won Eco-Youth and its Chairperson, Nicola

Dorota Hajdukiewicz: “We’re amateurs, but we’re going to grow food!”

With our theme of Springtime renewal, and of starting afresh, in this post we talk to Dorota Hajdukiewicz, a mature student at the University of Huddersfield. I recently read about an urban food-growing project she and her fellow students are starting on land owned by the University, and thought it