REconomy

When Transition folk take part in visioning a better world, technologies like wind and water turbines and solar panels usually play a big role in providing the energy needs we imagine for our homes and communities.  Many of us also use mobile phones, personal computers and ipads as we develop our transition visions, activities and practical projects. I’m using one now.

Standing on the dark slate tomb of some long-forgotten eighteenth-century family, (children dead in infancy, parents living no more than 30 or 40 years), our bright red and stainless steel community apple press looked, even to us, a little…well…."incongruous”.

It can be no accident that the main Sunday session of this year’s conference involved the visioning of a high street, the creation of a bustling hub of the everyday businesses and services we imagined to be central to the Transitioned Town of the future.&nbs

The Transition Network Conference held a space for four plus days offering a little something for everybody: creative venue, amazing interpersonal experiences, practical knowledge, profound insights, synchronicities and incongruencies, proposals and critiques, Bacchanalian abandon, and an utterly depressing book reading. A successful event by any measure.

The current job market is not particularly enticing for young, enthusiastic, inexperienced and transition-minded individuals. Young people across the country are struggling to get any kind of job, let alone a meaningful one, and once you do get a job there are no guarantees you are going to get to keep it.