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Today was my first visit to La Bourget, the vast conference centre complex on the edge of Paris where COP21 is taking place.  Amid very tight security, helicopters flying overhead, Robocop-style policemen and police on horseback, it certainly felt very different to the events and venues I had been at

From our Roving Reporter, Henry Owen: So on Saturday I was lucky enough to visit Le Pré-Saint-Gervais en Transition‘s ‘Disco Soupe’ event! This municipality – one of the poorer districts around Paris, just outside the ring road to the North East – has a population of about 15,000 and a

Paris authorities banned the planned Peoples’ Climate March that was supposed to take place in Paris today on security grounds although, as Naomi Klein pointed out, football matches were allowed to proceed on the grounds that “life must go on”.  “Indeed it must”, she replied, “that’s why I joined

This will be a brief report given that it’s late and I need to get some sleep!  Emilio Mula (filmmaker) and I, after a very early bleary start from Totnes, arrived in Paris around 3pm to be met by some Paris Transitioners, who, among other things, told us about

. Launched in time for COP21 in Paris, 21 Stories of Transition shows what 21 projects have done to move away from destructive, fossil fuel ‘business as usual’, demonstrating that it is possible to create positive change on a community-wide scale. Be inspired! Published as the Transition movement’s contribution to

I am one of the people who made it to the end of watching the series ‘Lost’.  I really quite enjoyed it in places, but in the end it got bogged down in its own silliness, with plot lines that went nowhere and the promise that the whole thing would