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Carbon Leapfrog and support for community energy projects
We are at an interesting junction in the evolution of community energy in the UK. The path to creating ownership of energy generation at the local level has never been easy, but as we make our way through 2013, it seems that the government has...
30 maps to help local change-makers and community organisers
Mapping a community’s needs and resources is one of the first things that many community groups do, when beginning their journey into local change-making. See also this post from the Transition Network that positions community mapping within the context of lots of other “ingredients” needed for...
The inspiring response of a place when told it probably won’t exist in 20 years
This is a guest post from Filipa Pimentel, the Transition Network national hubs co-ordinator and she’s from Portugal. This is based on an email that she recently sent, and which I found moving and inspiring – so Filipa kindly agreed to share it with you…...
The potential of the co-operative business model
We’d like to thank Kate Whittle from Cooperantics for this guest post responding to my TEDx talk (The unstoppable rise of the collaborative economy) and exploring further one of the key facets, which is the potential of the co-operative business model. Here’s the talk just...
Are social enterprises doing enough…. good?
Or do we need to embrace their good work and, for those of us so inclined, push the envelope further towards a new orientation? Social enterprise is the new buzzword – and many are flocking towards it for the associations it produces. At REconomy, we’re...
Totnes Local Economic Blueprint launched today
This post by Rob Hopkins is replicated on Transition Culture and the Transition Network website. Today sees the publication of what may well turn out to be one of the most important documents yet produced by a Transition initiative. Over the next few weeks...
Transition Lab – preparing the next generation of REconomists?
This is a guest blog post from Russell Evans of Transition Lab, based in Montrose, Colorado, USA. They are doing a wonderful experiment with young people that incorporates the gift economy, enterprise and resilience building as he explains below… Most of us would love...
Do you want to organize a local REconomy event?
The REconomy Project is very keen to see more local events themed around building new local economies. As such we want to develop an ‘event in a box’ toolkit that helps organisers and activists put on events that are relevant to your community. Do...
Why mainstream community economic development? Because it works.
This guest blog is from Karen Leach of Localise West Midlands, who has just completed some important research which helps grow the evidence base for community economic development. We are already referring to this work in our Economic Evaluation work. Here’s a summary of the...
The community finance canvas
The community finance canvas helps you produce a financial plan to bring your design for a resilient community into being. This approach has been developed by a group within Transition Sweden, through a process of trial and error. Thanks to Steve Hinton for sharing this...
