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One Minute Review: Behind the Green Door by Rotor

What is a sustainable building? A sustainable built environment? A sustainable city? The poor word ‘sustainable’ has been much abused, to a point where, for some, it has lost much of its meaning and relevance. Yet it remains a powerful concept, and a powerful lens for framing the debates as

Pandora Thomas on responding to the Prison Industrial Complex with permaculture and resilience

Pandora Thomas is a teacher, writer, speaker and designer. She currently lives in Berkeley, California and is a board member of Transition US, a founder of the Black Permaculture Network, a co-founder of Earthseed Consulting, and co-creator of the Pathways to Resilience programme. We’ve been trying to get an

Transitioners’ Digest (December 2014)

Welcome to our last Digest of 2014. Our theme this month was ‘Less is More’, and it began with an editorial that looked through the Christmas ads on TV and suggested what a Transition TV ad might look like. One reader even offered to organise a crowd-funding appeal to ensure

Results from the Transition Culture survey

A few weeks ago we asked you for your thoughts, via a short survey, on the Transition Culture blog. We thought we would share the responses with you, as well as some reflections on what we might do about them. In total 56 of you responded, and we’re very

If I Ruled The World

A couple of weeks ago the Western Morning News asked me to write something for a new feature they were starting called ‘If I Ruled the World’. “Feel free”, they wrote, “not to take it too seriously – after all (unless you know something we don’t) no one is really

Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part Two

So how did you set about researching the book? I was really fortunate because there are quite a few excellent researchers in Japan who have done a lot of the groundwork, and researchers overseas as well. Of course a lot of it was academic research. And again, the specialisation was

Appearing on Desert Island Discs, Totnes-style

On Friday, at St John’s Church in Bridgetown, Totnes, I was the subject of a rather unusual version of Desert Island Discs. The Winter Concert, organised by 2 local choirs, Global Harmony and Viva, and by The Bogg Boys, invites a local person to choose 8 tracks which are