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The spirit behind Transition, that invitation for a community to come together to reimagine and rebuild itself, takes many forms, not all of them choose to use the label Transition, and some, like the story told in this book, emerged before Transition but very much sees itself as being a

Lou Hemmerman, a sustainable activism researcher and facilitator with Ecodharma, shares her learnings from 6 years of action-research whilst co-facilitating Sustaining Resistance: Empowering Renewal, a 10 day residential workshop for activists. Lou lives at Ecodharma, a land-based community and education centre in a wild and remote part of the Catalunyan

Last week I visited an amazing exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London called The Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism, (it’s on until February 28th). The exhibition is a celebration of the Lukhang, a temple close to Lhasa’s Potala Palace which was conceived by

Low-carbon Neighbourhood Planning – key policy changes and scope for influence for Transition Initiatives Amy Burnett, University of Reading and Dan Stone, Centre for Sustainable Energy                           It’s been over a year since I wrote my article Neighbourhood Planning and the transition towards a low-carbon society back in October 2014 for

The film ‘Demain’ (‘Tomorrow’) is proving to be one of the most remarkable catalysts for Transition and other bottom-up approaches that has ever been made.  I recently saw it described by a friend of mine as “‘March of the Penguins’ for localists”.  Mention of it often pops up in emails