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Four reasons why too much local democracy can be a bad thing

So the European and local elections are over, and once again it looks like a result underpinned by low turnout and a general lack of interest, especially from young people. Parties seemed to be falling over themselves to say how much they love communities and want to give them more

Web and Comms high level review of the past year

The May 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Crystal Palace Transition Town’s market is celebrating its first birthday. The market has been a huge success since its inception, with local paper the Croydon Advertiser reporting “Extremely strong winds caused havoc among stallholders at Crystal Palace food market on Saturday. But despite forcing three traders to pack up

Angela Raffle of Transition Bristol: “Health and sustainability are like twins”

Angela Raffle is a founder member of Transition Bristol and a public health worker in the city. She was one of the people that produced the Bristol Peak Oil Report. But her experience was that because the government says that fossil fuel depletion isn’t a concern, the NHS finds

Sarah Timmins: the Low Carbon Nurse

Sarah Timmins is a qualified adult nurse who is now doing a postgraduate qualification to become a health visitor. She recently started the blog ‘UK Nurse Against Climate Change‘ which she describes as “my own private journey into a year, and hopefully much longer, of trying to raise awareness of

The Impact of Transition Training in Israel and the West Bank

The question “what’s our impact?” went with me to Israel and the West Bank, where Naresh and I were invited to run the first Transition:Launch training. As part of our trip we ran a one day Transition workshop in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Although it’s just

Frances Northrop on ‘Caring Town Totnes’

When people talk about ‘green jobs’ the health and care sector is not often on the list. We often think first about green technologies, renewable energy production, retrofitting and food and it was no different when we first sat down to plan the Economic Blueprint work in Totnes. When we