20 Jul 2010
A Review of ‘Local Money’ by Peter North
Here is a review of ‘Local Money’ by Jeremy over at MakeWealthHistory. The book can be ordered here. It was also mentioned recently by Lucy Siegle in the Observer.
“I’ve really enjoyed the last three books to come out of the Transition Books stable, so I was pleased to see the latest instalment was out: Local Money – how to make it happen in your community. It’s another big square book, following Local Food, and it’s got the same practical, inspiring, can-do approach. This time, it’s all about creating local money networks.
Another piece of high quality research has just been produced, this time by Jonathan Balls of the University of Cambridge, entitled ‘Transition Towns: Local Networking for Global Sustainability?’
Every community that organises an Unleashing produces a very different event, a unique reflection of place, culture and people. Last night’s Unleashing of
I am feeling very guilty about the infrequency of posts here, dear Transition Culture reader, and so wanted to explain my lack of regular blogging activity. I am very close to finishing the PhD I have been doing over the last 3 years (alongside everything else), which is entitled “Localisation and resilience at the local level: the case of Transition Town Totnes (Devon, UK)”. A PhD, I am rapidly, and wearily, discovering, is rather like building a house. When you build a house, you reach a stage where you think you are 90% done, walls up, all the slating done on the roof, windows in. You soon find out though that you are only about halfway there, that all the fiddly bits and finishing things off take an inordinate amount of time. So it is with a PhD. I am aiming to hand it in by the end of this month, so am flat out tweaking, editing, cross-checking, throwing my hands up and wondering why I ever started it in the first place… . It will be more widely available from mid-Autumn, but I thought for now you might at least like to see the Contents, to give you a taster of what’s to come (click ‘Read More’ to see it). I do hope it will be something that you will all find useful… Right, back to it…
A few people have asked me what my thoughts are on the whole ‘Big Society’ concept being promoted by the new British government. I have attended a couple of events over the last week that have given me space to think about it all, so here I am with a few reflections. Last week 
