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One Minute Review: Happier People, Healthier Planet by Teresa Belton.  Reviewed by Jesús Martín. Published last September , this is a book which deeply touches its reader, not only from a mental perspective also but from an emotional and active one. This is probably a book that doesn’t need to

Dear Auntie, please help.  I love doing Transition, and I love the projects our group is doing, but I can’t bear our Core Group meetings.  They are lacklustre, tedious and I feel myself losing the will to live in them.  I would love to be able to take some

Heather Ackroyd (HA) and Dan Harvey (DH) work together as Ackroyd and Harvey.  Sculpture, photography, architecture, ecology and biology are some of the disciplines that intersect in their work, revealing an intrinsic bias towards process and event. For over 25 years their work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries,

I had never been to Luxembourg before.  Having recently visited France and Belgium to meet Transition groups, I had just about got used to the fact that in one (I can’t remember which) people kiss on one cheek, and in the other they kiss on two cheeks, and I

Today’s blog is a podcast recorded in poet Matt Harvey’s composing shed in his garden in Totnes.  A few weeks ago, SWIMBY The Musical (original working title ‘Transition Town: The Musical’) raised over £10,000 in a Kickstarter appeal, and this was followed by some Arts Council funding.

Here’s a piece from 2012 which is a great contribution to our Social Change and the Arts theme.  We also post it in loving memory of Battersea Arts Centre, whose magical space helped to make this exercise what it was, which was damaged badly in a fire a couple