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Transition towns

January 2023

  • Transition Town Wellington volunteers at work on Fox's field forest garden in Tonedale.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The joy of growing something from nothing

    Wellington, Somerset: Our local Transition Town group is turning a scrubby field into a forest garden – and the word is spreading

October 2022

  • The industrial town of Lithgow faces an uncertain future as coal reserves dry up and the Mount Piper power plant faces closure.

    Where once there was coal smog, a cloud of uncertainty now hangs over Lithgow

    The NSW town is in a hurry to transition from mining and power generation – but attracting new industries has its own pitfalls

May 2021

  • A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 31, 2010.

    Investing in coal power would be an expensive mistake

    Trent Zimmerman and Philip Dunne
    The UK has enormous capacity to increase its energy supply from offshore wind. Australia too has vast potential for wind and solar power

September 2015

  • Cambridge CropShare

    Rethinking prosperity
    Food waste cafes and urban orchards: five ways people are building a new economy

    Grassroots projects are springing up across the UK to empower local people and build communities

July 2015

  • Banners at G20 protest

    Rethinking prosperity
    Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism

    Ashish Kothari, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta
    All over the world, environmental justice movements are challenging
    growth-oriented development and neoliberal capitalism

June 2014

  • Live better Green gym

    Live Better: health and wellbeing
    A healthy society is just as much about community as healthcare

    Public health is often treated as a separate issue to the environment, but they are inseparable, argues Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Network

May 2014

  • live better ecobricks

    Live Better: reduce, reuse, recycle
    EcoBricks and education: how plastic bottle rubbish is helping build schools

    It began in Guatemala, and now a South African town is using recycling bottles as building material as part of an inspirational and regenerative campaign against rubbish. Rob Hopkins went there to investigate

September 2013

  • A banner reading 'Capitalism isn't working' at the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest

    Earth insight
    The crisis of civilisation is an unprecedented opportunity

    Nafeez Ahmed: Converging climate, energy, and economic crises signal the potential to transition to a prosperous post-carbon era

June 2013

  • Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition network

    Local, self-sufficient, optimistic: are Transition Towns the way forward?

    Locally grown food, community-owned power stations, local currencies … can small-scale actions make a difference? Yes, according to the Transition network – in fact, it's our only hope

October 2011

  • 0430 ENVIRONMENT Kites

    The Northerner
    Can York take environmentalism beyond the white middle class?

    Being green is widely accepted as 'a good thing', so why then do so many people take so little action? Guest blogger Dr Gary Haq of the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York looks at green localism

September 2011

  • Benedictine

    Cif belief
    Lessons on sustainable living, with the green monks of Mucknell

    Clare Bryden
    Clare Bryden: Spending a year with Benedictine monks has taught me how to cultivate a healthy environmental idealism rooted in reality

June 2011

  • Transition Town Totnes wins green award - video

    A community scheme led by Transition Town Totnes that encourages groups of neighbours to embark on a low-carbon path together has been named one of the winners of the 2011 Ashden Awards

February 2011

  • Roofs of Totnes, Devon, Great Britain, Europe

    Gordon Roddick's big ideas
    Totnes: Britain's town of the future

    Totnes in Devon might be the most forward-thinking eco settlement in the world. As fossil-fuel reserves dwindle and the economy contracts, will resident-led Transition Towns become the way that we all live?

September 2010

  • Brixton pound

    Will the Brixton pound stick around?

    Brixton, like other 'transition towns', has its own currency. But, a year after its launch, is it more trouble than it's worth?

March 2010

  • A convert to communities

    Madeleine Bunting
    Madeleine Bunting: New Labour's one-time champion of globalisiation and individualism has finally woken up to the vital role of community

January 2010

  • Still cool about green technology

    Letters: The UK leads the world in the design and development of micro-CHP units. However, the government is risking seeing investment, jobs and manufacturing go abroad

September 2009

  • Brixton Pound notes launched

    Green living blog
    Brixton's community cash

    Zoe Jewell
  • Brixton market

    Will the Brixton pound buy a brighter future?

June 2009

  • The Observer ethical awards 2009: Rob Hopkins

    Grassroots campaign award-winner Rob Hopkins has produced a blueprint mapping out how society can continue to function in a future without oil. So far 400 towns have agreed to trial his ideas

May 2009

  • Digging for victory

    Alastair Harper
    Hay festival: Alastair Harper: Climate change, claim 'transition town' activists, may leave us no choice but to return to growing our own food
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