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The EU wants to block Romania’s 51% local food shift. Who cares?

Amid all the mayhem and turmoil of recent weeks, here’s a news story you may have missed. The Romanian parliament unanimously passed an amendment to the country’s “Law on the Sale of Food Products” bill which states that every large supermarket in the country must ensure that 51%

‘Tomorrow’ (‘Demain’) premieres in London: article and podcast

On Friday 1st July, at the Everyman Cinema in Muswell Hill, London, the film that has proven to be a phenomenon in France, ‘Tomorrow’ (or ‘Demain’) has its first formal screening. The film’s producers, Cyril Dion and Melanie Laurent, travelled from Paris to be there, as did some of

The Forest Economy: woodland as New Economy metaphor

I spent Sunday afternoon having a beautiful walk in the woods with my son at Venton Brook, near Holne on Dartmoor, one of the most beautiful places on earth. As we walked down through this ancient woodland, with its stream, its waterfalls, its trees, moss and lichen, the sun breaking

Iceland’s 4 Keys to Real Wealth – a Love Letter

By Naresh Giangrande: What do I know? I just visited Iceland for nine days, having been asked to be a keynote speaker at a conference recently- titled a Tool kit for survival at the edge of the world. I am also one of the founders of Transition Towns. What I

7 things a Local Entrepreneur Forum can unlock

Thursday May 12th was the fifth Local Entrepreneur Forum in Totnes. I’m not going to write the usual blow-by-blow report of the event, as I’ve done that in previous years, and in many ways this one stuck with the format of previous years, albeit with a

An evening in Stroud: ’10 years and beyond’

Transition Stroud were the 8th ‘official’ Transition initiative, forming in 2007. Its first big event was the visit of Richard Heinberg to the town, who gave both a public presentation and also a talk for Stroud District Council. Since then, the group has been extremely active, and as it enters

The beer that innoculates against Philip Green

Every February, the Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, brew a beer called ‘Pliny the Younger’. Nothing too remarkable about that you might think. But what would you say if I told you that their brewing this one particular beer leads to $4.88 million in economic impact