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

One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown. Brown is director of the Konazawa Institute of Technologies Future Design Institute and has lived in Japan for the last 30 years. It is a

Inez Aponte: From dismal science to language of beauty – Towards a new story of economics

Humans are storytelling beings. In fact one could argue that it is impossible to make sense of the world without story. Storytelling is how we piece together facts, beliefs, feelings and history to form something of a coherent whole connecting us to our individual and collective past, present and future.

My year without Amazon

Exactly a year ago today I wrote a piece on this blog called The day I closed my Amazon account. It set out why, and how, I had decided that Amazon was so at odds with my values that I was withdrawing my support for good. It turned out to

Fukushima – living with the aftermath of a disaster

Fukushima. We all arrive by bullet train and take a photo of the station sign. Not just our small group of visiting foreigners but other visiting Japanese are doing the same thing. Fukushima. The name has resonance these days. An ongoing tragedy worthy taking a picture of the station sign

One Minute Review: Incredible! by Pam Warhurst & Joanna Dobson

Incredible!: Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution is the story of Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET), the food-growing project in Yorkshire which has inspired people around the world to look at their urban spaces in a very different way. In Todmorden you can pick sweet corn in front of the police station,

Our new support framework is here – give it a go and let us know what you think

A guest post from Michael Thomas, Transition Network’s Support Co-ordinator. For the past 9 months we have been creating a new support framework which draws on the various resources that Transition Network has produced over recent years, experience gained from Transition Training and feedback from across the movement. We

Looking Back Over 100 Years: an interview with Douglas Matthews

In 2008, when I was researching my PhD looking at Transition Town Totnes, I went out to visit Douglas Matthews at his farmhouse near Staverton. Douglas was 99, and still slept in the bedroom he had been born in. He died a few months later having just reached the age