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Today was the most thought-provoking day, at times viscerally so.  The logo for COP21 says ‘Tous ensemble pour le climat’, or “all together for the climate” (see right).  Yet today was a day when the battle lines felt clearly drawn, or rather the two extremes on display here came

I spent the morning at Place to B doing interviews, one for National Geographic France, and the other with an online magazine who wanted to know what my ideal house would be like in 2050.  Enjoyed that.  Given that I would be 82 by then, it was a rather fetching

I’m now over half way through my time here in Paris, and it is pretty hectic really.  It can feel like being pulled in many different directions and really quite intense and tiring sometimes.  It is useful then, in such moments, to reconnect with what it is that we

This shouldn’t take so long as today was, compared to past days, relatively uneventful.  Its first half was dominated by the Transition Network website going down, leading to lots of scrabbling around and my being unable to upload various things that I needed to upload.  I got to Le

Our Guest Reporter Henry Owen reports: Last night I found myself heading to the Champs-Élysées with an assorted bunch of Transitioners and Transition Network staff to a very unusual event for us – a glitzy film premiere! The film – Demain – focuses on solutions to the environmental crises we face, and

Chris Bird guest blogs from Paris: A few weeks ago we showed Naomi Kleins’ film – ‘This Changes Everything’ at the Totnes Film Festival. The film outlines how, over the past 400 years the predominant story about us and the planet is that we can subdue and control Nature to meet