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Sustainable St Albans Week – a model for engaging the local community towards change

“Creates good opportunities to discuss Sustainability with friends and colleagues as they become more aware of the issues’’ Feedback form We endlessly promoted the programme online and distributed thousands of brochures through the organisers and at market stalls. The Herts Advertiser, our media partner, gave us excellent coverage, as did

“Always the same, always different”: a response to Ted Trainer

The late John Peel once said of The Fall that they were “always the same, always different”. The same could be said of Ted Trainer’s critiques of Transition. He just published another one, many of the points in which he has made before, and I have already responded to

’21 Stories of Transition’ now available to download, in English and French.

‘21 Stories of Transition‘, the book we published for COP 21 in Paris in December 2015, is now available here as a free download, both in English and in French. The book, comprising stories harvested by Rob Hopkins from many Transition groups around the world, and designed by Jane Brady,

Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn on ‘The Bank Job’

When I was recently at the #CTRLshift conference in Wigan, one project that many people were talking about was Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn’s ‘The Bank Job’, currently underway in a former bank in Walthamstow. It had just been featured in The Guardian under the headline ‘The rebel bank,

A dazzlingly delicious taste of the future in Liége

Something really amazing is happening in Liége in Belgium. I was last there 4 years ago, where I gave talks and did meetings in support of Liege en Transition, and to attend a meeting to promote a project they had just launched called ‘Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise’ (‘The Liége Food Belt’

Game Over?

This is the second blog from guest editor Helene Oakley on the theme of “Transition from the edge and in-between”. In October last year, a volcano went off in the conversation around gender and power. You most likely heard it. Catalysed by courageous first person accounts of sexual harassment and

News from the world of Transitionese

Sparking conversations I will regularly bring you “News from the world of Transitionese”, highlighting work being done on translations of resources and support material around the world, followed by a “Word of the month” and by a longer reflection. We hope to spark conversations on the many different ways words