story

This is a brief overview of findings from the Social Reporters' end of pilot survey, and a call for new writers to share their experiences of being in Transition.

“Once, there was a city that was 3 towns, it lay between the Plum Tree River and the mighty dark Tamar. Born on the Southern Farm down by the Sound, it had grown and grown, and perhaps because of its mighty Sound, or perhaps because it had grown and grown, it had sent adventurers out across the oceans, to conquer the peoples and resources it found, and been destroyed over and over, from the Bretons who burnt it, to the bombs which blitzed it.

 Before the Christmas holidays  I was lucky enough to be invited to two very different cities; Sheffield, city of steel, nestling amongst 7 hills and 5 river valleys, the Don, Loxley, Rivelin, Porter and the Sheaf, and Edinburgh, capital city of Scotland, perched on the side of the remains of an ancient volcano.