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Transitioners’ Digest (March – April 2016) International.

Our theme over the past 2 months was ‘International’. We set out to look at Transition in its many international manifestations and how it has spread, and what it has become. We started with our editorial piece which looked at the EU in/out referendum in the UK in June

Report: converging for the common good in Hvalsø, Denmark.

I first visited Denmark in 1995 when I was doing my sustainability degree. We visited Odense, and spent a week immersed in wind farms, district heating schemes, co-housing projects and a raft of other sustainability schemes. Returning to the UK afterwards, leaving the land where everywhere you looked, even then,

A snapshot of Transition in … Japan

Shunro Yoshida, co-founder and representative board of director of Transition Japan reports from Japan: We started Transition movement in 2008, since we met Rob Hopkins at Findhorn at the Positive energy conference with Hide (Hidetake Enomoto) who was living in Findhorn at that time and invited me to come to

Flying to the US: was it worth it?

In October 2013, Peter Lipman and I travelled to the US, initially to be part of the Environmental Grantmakers’ Association annual retreat, but also to visit a number of Transition groups. I had, at the time, not flown for 7 years, having vowed not to fly again having seen ‘An

Juliet Davenport of Good Energy on the UK’s EU Referendum

As part of our theme of ‘International’, we have been looking at the UK’s forthcoming EU in/out referendum from different perspectives. We thought it might be interesting to get a view on it from Juliet Davenport of Good Energy. How might a Brexit vote affect the push for

The Panama Papers and the emergence of Transition in Iceland

Naresh Giangrande writes: The Panama Papers were released last Sunday April 3rd, and 48 hours later the Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, resigned. Icelanders are clearly angry at having been betrayed again, and what’s more important, prepared to do something about it. In this short interview with

Juan del Rio: Construyendo puentes para la transición iberoamericana

Today, we hear from Juan del Rio, Transition Trainer and author of La Guía del movimiento de transición, the first book in Spanish about Transition, about his recent tour of South America. Appropriately, his article is in Spanish. Introducción Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar, decía el