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The 8 Paradigm Shifts at the Heart of REconomy

For the next two months here we will be talking REconomy, looking in depth at this aspect of Transition which is about creating new enterprises, new economies, new livelihoods. We’ll talk to entrepreneurs, to people in local authorities embracing this approach, to people about to launch local currencies, to

Our “Everything-you-could-ever-want-to-know-about-the-Exeter-Pound” Podcast.

A couple of weeks I took the short train ride to Exeter to meet Ian, Melanie, Adam, Martin and Gill, the group working hard to make the Exeter Pound a reality. With their launch set for September 1st I wanted to find out how’s it going. How did the

Inner Transition sans frontières!

When I was a child there was an extraordinary show on the TV called Jeux Sans Frontières! (Games without borders!). In the early days of the European Union it brought together people from different countries to compete in ridiculous physical games involving huge inflatable cartoon characters, and a lot of

Fiona Ward on transforming ourselves and our local economies from the inside out

The most interesting, and most rewarding part of my journey with Transition has been around the aspects of Inner. The world I (and most of us) have been brought up in values getting things done, being busy, the tangible and the pursuit of external things to fill the sense that

Hide Enomoto on Inner Transition in Japan

Hide Enomoto, co-founder of Transition Japan, speaks to Michelle Denton about Inner Transition in the Japanese context. We also introduce the next two new videos in our Inner Transition series: How did you come to Transition? I had been a coach for about 10 years helping my clients focus on

Transitioners’ Digest (March-April 2015) Social Change & the Arts

To celebrate the launch of Lucy Neal‘s awesome book Playing for Time, we dedicated the last 2 months to our theme of Social Change and the Arts. And what a packed month it’s been. We started with an interview with Lucy herself, talking about the intention behind the

Mandy Barnett: “Make, be, dance, pedal, shape the future”.

“My name’s Mandy Barnett. I’m a…now, what am I?! I used to be a designer in the cultural sector. I worked in museums for years. Then I became a manager and I’m a manager consultant now. My work is all about social impact in the cultural