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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

Transition Emerging: a snapshot from Canada

We are grateful to Rivka Kushner, Chris Buse, Blake Poland and Rebecca Hasdell for the following, which came in just slightly too late for our month on impact but which we’re posting anyway. The Transition Emerging Study: Examining the Trajectory of the Transition Movement in Canada looks at the

Clive Hamilton on ‘Earthmasters’: deciding where to set the earth’s thermostat

Clive Hamilton is an Australian academic and author. His last two books were Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change and more recently a book published last year on geoengineering called Earthmasters: the dawn of the age of climate engineering. It is both a chilling

Comms delivery group meeting report 1 May 2014

The Circular Economy in a glass

William Blake famously wrote: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour”. I’d like, in this post, to invite you to imagine the local Circular Economy. In a

Our month on Transition and Health, and what would a Transition hospital look like?

Our theme for May is ‘Transition and Health’. This month we’ll be looking at how public health professionals are already responding to challenges of climate change and resource depletion and at how a more Transition-inspired approach might help to deepen that. We’ll be talking to nurses and

A Healthier Community: Monica Picavea on Transition Brasilandia’s Sustainable Health Fair

Health care is a very important issue to Transition Brasilandia, especially because in a low income community such as ours, many diseases appear frequently. To help with the prevention and awareness raising about taking care of your health, the event is promoted by 5 Basic Health Units of the Territory