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Workshops - From Sheds and Swarfega to Hot Beds and Gemütlichkeit

When I was growing up workshop meant the shed out the back where my Dad repaired wind instruments and fashioned our kitchen cupboards from scrap wood and old insulator crates from the railway. Where the tools were well-kept and tidy and there was a smell of swarfega.

Published on March 29, 2013, by Mark Watson

Well-being and the Community - a local perspective

What makes up community well-being in a time of financial constraints and climate uncertainty?

Published on March 18, 2013, by Mark Watson

Some Winter Dispatches from East Anglia in Transition

It’s early January and I’m sitting in the Green Dragon pub at Sustainable Bungay’s first event of the year, a Green Drinks session on the theme of Well-Being and the Community.

Published on January 21, 2013, by Mark Watson

Money, Moss Side, Small Things and Roses

Last January when we looked back over the Social Reporting posts that had struck us particularly, we'd been going just three months and there were 'only' 90 to choose from. This year there are around 300, so the four pieces I've chosen here represent under 1% of the total. But that's just the stats.

Published on January 9, 2013, by Mark Watson

Energy Descent is Cool! Even When It's Bloody Cold

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Creating an “Energy Descent Action Plan” (EDAP) is one of the key 12 steps in the original Transition Handbook and the first ingredient in the Building section of the Transition Companion.

Published on December 21, 2012, by Mark Watson

What has this #SHAMELESSPLUG for the TRANSITION FREE PRESS got to do with LIVELIHOODS?

More than it appears at first glance!

For many of us, at least in the modern UK, the very concept of livelihood is in transition. In this week’s posts on the subject so far, one recurrent theme emerges: as the one secure job/career/pension for life becomes less common, some people are developing ‘multiple pathways for meeting their needs’.

Published on November 23, 2012, by Mark Watson

Trees in Transition

There is an oak I go to visit. Sometimes I just go there and sit under its huge spreading crown, and look over the fields and we keep each other company. Sometimes I visit when I feel fractious or discombobulated, or when a certain restlessness happens. I always greet the tree. Then I sit down and wait.

Published on November 15, 2012, by Mark Watson

Some People More than Others

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We live in a society and culture that is shot through with class and hierarchy. We are brought up living and breathing it whether we like it or not, with our monarchies and corporate pyramids, line managers, owners, renters, professionals, masters, servants, wage-slaves, the woman who has and the woman who does. 

Published on November 5, 2012, by Mark Watson

Being Here Now in Earth Time with Plants

Day of the Dead, Autumn 2012

Yesterday afternoon as I was gathering sweet chestnuts from a nearby wood I remembered an early post on the Transition Norwich blog by Jon Curran, Help from an Unexpected Quarter.

Published on November 1, 2012, by Mark Watson

Transition Network Communications - The Web Project

In today’s post I’m taking a look at communications in the Transition N(n)etwork.  And whichever way you look at it, in CAPS or in lower case, it’s about people. Transition doesn’t exist without people doing stuff; neither do communications nor networks.

Published on October 19, 2012, by Mark Watson
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