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Today we launch our new theme of ‘Fairness’ with an editorial from Sophy Banks: We picked a big topic for this month’s theme – to run alongside the build up and aftermath of the 2015 Transition Conference. Fairness. Exploring this leads pretty quickly to some other major themes – inclusion, justice,

Academic work on Transition can often be infuriating rather than illuminating.  I was once asked to peer review a paper on Transition, a movement I was central in kickstarting and shaping, but I had to decline on the grounds that the paper was utterly incomprehensible.  While some research is excellent,

Transition Network now has an expanding and evolving group of National Hubs who help connect and co-ordinate transition activity in their countries.  They are a diverse and geographically dispersed group with hubs across three continents with others emerging fast. They form an increasingly connected network, meeting online and sharing ideas

From July to September we will be highlighting content and key themes for this year’s Transition Network International Conference. This first piece looks at the growth of community energy in the UK with our own Naresh Giangrande and Chris Rowland of OVESCO who will be presenting at the Conference.

Food is an issue that galvanizes so many Transition communities, but many of the classic Transition activities around food, like Landshare and Abundance projects, are to some extent ways of making the best of the ever-shrinking space available for ecological growing.  Nothing wrong with that, but it meant I was