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Archive for “Transition Network” category
Showing results 106 - 110 of 132 for the category: Transition Network.
17 Nov 2009
Last Saturday, in spite of the atrocious weather, 55 people from 19 Transition initiatives across the east of England gathered in Diss in Norfolk for the second meeting of Transition East. Transition East is made up of Transition groups in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. In honour of the event, Charlotte Du Cann and Josiah Meldrum pulled together a really quite extraordinary document, “Transition in the East: co-operation, collaboration, support and influence”, which you can download here. It offers an extraordinary insight into what is happening there, the range of groups and what they are up to. It also includes a brilliant section on ‘Troubleshooting’, or as they put it, “everything you wanted to know about Transition but were too correct to ask…”, which looks at some of the common problems they are running into. It is an exemplary look at the spread of Transition on a regional scale.
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7 Nov 2009
I travelled up last Friday to Slaithwaite in Yorkshire for first Transition North conference, which was supported by the Co-operative and attended by people from the Transition and Co-operative movements across the North of England. It was a wonderful day. Dynamic, positive, creative and very well attended. Hosted at the Civic Hall in the town, it was supplied with wonderful local food, and was very well organised by the Transition Marsden and Slaithwaite group.
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23 Sep 2009
I am delighted to be able to announce that Transition Network has been chosen as one of three finalists for the Curry Stone Design Prize. The Prize is, according to the organisers, “an annual award to exceptional emerging design innovations that contribute positively to living circumstances for broad sections of global humanity. It is awarded to an individual or group of designers for extraordinary design projects or innovative ideas. The Curry Stone Design Prize rewards and supports new design projects and/or ideas that improve global, societal, and/or humanitarian conditions and represent innovative thinking. It is supported by the Curry Stone Foundation of Oregon and administered by Architecture For Humanity”.
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11 Sep 2009
Here is the response to the previous post. These are offered in the hope that they inspire some kind of a discussion/debate around this. Please feel free to contribute and share your thoughts. In case you missed it in yesterday’s post, you can read the MoU document that is the subject of all this conversation here.
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11 Sep 2009
The Transition Network recently produced a Memorandum of Understanding for emerging national Transition organisations, which now are up and running in Ireland, New Zealand, the US, Sweden and Italy. The idea is to enable and support the transfer of the jobs Transition Network does (in particular assessing applications for ‘formal’ Transition status) to a group in that country. Recently, in New Zealand, a fascinating debate has emerged about the MoU in its current form, and to what extent it is ‘top down’, and whether it is even desirable at all.
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