Sign in Subscribe

Blog

Introducing the first book about Transition in Spanish

This month sees publication of the first new book about Transition not written in English, a landmark moment worth celebrating. Guía del movimiento de transición (‘A Guide to the Transition movement’) is the work of Spanish Transition activist and trainer Juan del Rio. We will be speaking to him soon

Which great moments tell the Transition story?

When you talk about the Transition movement, what works, and just as importantly, what doesn’t? When you read things others have written about the Transition movement, what delights you, and what infuriates you? Transition Network is undertaking a project with Jon Alexander of the New Citizenship Project who is

The Transition Agony Aunt on Initiating Groups that can’t agree on anything.

Dear Auntie. Please help! I am finding our Initiating Group’s meetings very frustrating! It seems to me that everyone wants something different, we can’t even seem to agree on how to hold a meeting. It’s driving me mad because it’s paralysing the group and it means

Planning: the untapped power of community consent.

When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story? What options remain open to them? As South Hams District Council planners grant the Duke of Somerset permission to close down the last working dairy farm in Totnes to replace

Obituary: Transition Free Press (2012-2015)

We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our dear friend, Transition Free Press. TFP, as it was more affectionately known, had, in its short life, become a lighthouse for those bobbing on the seas of Transition, a shining beacon of our collective emergent culture. Ever since its

Zero Carbon Powys Conference

I was up early on a Saturday morning to get up to Centre for Alternative Technology in Mid Wales to the Zero Carbon Powys conference organised by Powys Transition and Low Carbon Communities Network (PTLCC) which is made up of a range of groups in the Powys area. In the

One Minute Review: Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn.

Shelter, originally published in 1973, is one of my favourite books. Large format, black and white, a celebration of hand built shelters around the world. I’ve had my copy for 20 years, and still pick it up and find new stuff in it. Tiny Homes is Kahn’s latest