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A letter from Cascis, Portugal
[Here's a great story from Portugal. My thanks to Isabel and Luis for sending it in]. Hello everyone. We are Isabel and Luis, from Cascais, in Portugal. We have lived here (in Cascais) for the last 15 years, with the blue sea and fabulous sand beaches nearby, on one way and amazing mountain sides on the [...]
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The transcript of my TEDxExeter talk
I posted the video of this a couple of weeks ago, but I am deeply grateful to Vanessa Kroll who has transcribed it, in case such a thing would be of interest/use to anyone. Here it is: “Hello. I want to tell you a story which pulls together a lot of what we’ve heard already [...]
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The Festival of Transition has begun!
Here is some updated information on the Festival of Transition: The nationwide ‘Festival of Transition’, coordinated by nef (the new economics foundation) and the Transition Network, has begun, running until 20th June, the first day of the 20th UN Earth Summit in Rio. Instead of flying to Brazil, the Festival gives people the opportunity to [...]
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On construction, cake, and local economic regeneration: why we should start with the materials
What might we learn from the construction, between1438 and 1448 of the Hospital of St. John in Sherborne (see above) that might shape the way we think about construction in the 21st century? While the bulk of the building was built using local oolitic limestone, it was dressed with Lias stone from Ham Hill, some [...]
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Transition Town Cheltenham using the Transition Ingredients card game
One of the key outputs from the creation of ‘The Transition Companion’ was the ingredients card game which was launched last October. Each card represents a different ingredient, a different aspect of the process of creating Transition in your community. We have had good feedback from different events where people have used them, and so I [...]
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An interview with Nick Shaxson, author of ‘Treasure Islands: tax havens and the men who stole the world’
I recently read Nick Shaxson’s excellent book which explores the extent of off-shore banking in the world, shocking stuff. I was honoured to be able to interview Nick recently, you can either listen to our conversation below, or read the transcript. You can find out more about the book here. Nick, thanks very much for [...]
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Rebecca Mayes ‘The Lights’ is now released as a single!
A while ago here we posted the video to Rebecca Mayes’ song ‘The Lights’, her beautiful song written for the closing credits of ‘In Transition 2.0′ (the one everyone goes out after the film singing). I am delighted to announce that the song is today released as a single, and is now available via. iTunes. [...]
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Filipa Pimentel on Transition in Portugal: “we try to reduce money exchange in everything we do”
I wrote a while ago about Transition Network’s recent one day conversation on ‘Peak Money and Economic Resilience’, and how it had included a session where people from Portugal, Ireland and Greece gave a sense of what is happening in each place. Filipa Pimentel, who is co-ordinating the networking of the national Transition hubs, spoke [...]
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