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Announcing the pilot Transition Roadshow event!

In a couple of weeks we will be inviting Transition initiatives across the UK to apply to host one of several Roadshow events we plan to run during late 2014 and early 2015. As we announced previously, there will be no 2014 Transition Network conference, at least, not in the

The Transitioners Digest (April)

It’s been a fascinating month here, with our theme of “what is the impact of Transition, and how do we know?” Feels like we only just started to scratch the surface of this huge subject. We started the month with an editorial which asked, in the light of the

Giuseppe Feola and Richard J Nunes on researching Transition

One of the most in-depth pieces of research on Transition published recently was Failure and Success of Transition initiatives: a study of the international replication of the Transition movement by Giuseppe Feola and Richard Nunes at the University of Reading. Giuseppe is a lecturer in Environmental Development whose research focuses

The Impact We’re Having: Sylvie Spraakman of TransitionKW

At Transition in Kitchener-Waterloo, we have recently achieved a lot of new things, and it’s been exciting. We have launched our Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit, and we have also become an official Transition initiative. We have a lot to be celebrating – and we’re definitely doing that – along with

Sophy Banks on 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

Comms delivery group meeting report 28 April 2014

Michael Shuman: “I would say that we are winning”

We last spoke to Michael Shuman just over three years ago. He is author of several books on local economic development, the most recent being Local Dollars, Local Sense. He is an attorney, an economist, and his current job title is Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets. Not every