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The ‘Transition Animal’: one Transitioner’s experience

This month, we’ve asked some people who’ve used the Transition Animal (an exercise that’s part of the Transition Health Check) for their thoughts on how it worked for them. Today we hear from Chrissie Godfrey, until recently part of Transition Taunton, for her experience: “In a Transition

Transition Penwith’s journey to a thriving west Cornwall

Transition Network’s Transition Initiative Support Coordinator Mike Thomas reports from the recent Transition Roadshow in Penwith, Cornwall: The Penwith ‘Rethinking our Economic Future’ event was great and I hope that Transition Penwith members have been taking a long deserved rest after organising an event that had several events in

Penwith Rethinking our economic future event report

The Penwith ‘Rethinking our Economic Future’ event was great and I hope that Transition Penwith members have been taking a long deserved rest after organising an event that had several events in the run up, a REconomy day, a talk by Rob Hopkins, a Procession through the high street, a

Lucy Neal on ‘Playing for Time’

Lucy Neal has lived in Tooting in London for nearly 3 decades. She has a background in the arts, used to run a festival called LIFT (The London International Festival of Theatre) and got involved with Transition in 2008, starting up Transition Town Tooting, which, she told me, “I’m

“When Transition forgets what it’s called”: the Arts and Social Change

Welcome to our month on Social Change and the Arts. It’s a theme that has been long overdue for exploration. It could be subtitled “Why the Arts need Transition, and why Transition needs the Arts”. The trigger for our finally sitting down to give it the attention it deserves

One minute Review – The Vegan Book of Permaculture

Not just a book for vegans Graham Burnett has just released a great book combining veganism and permaculture. This book is a really comprehensive introduction to both topics interspersed with a great range of vegan recipes. It’s almost three books in one, but in a good way. I am

Transitioners’ Digest (Jan-Feb 2015)

Our theme for these couple of months has been ‘The Power to Convene’. It’s been another busy couple of months. We opened with an editorial that set out what the term means and some examples of it, setting up the exploration that followed. We then looked at different aspects