Rob Hopkins

Jean-Claude Mensch is the Mayor of Ungersheim in the north east of France. Ungersheim is the last of Transition Network's '21 Stories of Transition', and in this short message (in French) he offers some reflections.

Rob Hopkins spends a day at the Crystal Palace Food Market and catches up with Karen and Laura who founded it, as well as some of the traders. http://www.crystalpalacefoodmarket.co.uk/

We hear a lot about local currencies, but never from the designers of them. So we asked Rick Lawrence (see image left), designer of the Totnes Pound, Charlie Waterhouse, designer of the Brixton Pound, and Owen Davis, one of the designers of the Bristol Pound, what advice they might give to anyone setting out to design a local currency note. www.transitionnetwork.org/pre-order-ou…s-transition

We hear a lot about local currencies, but never from the designers of them. So we asked Rick Lawrence, designer of the Totnes Pound, Charlie Waterhouse, designer of the Brixton Pound, and Owen Davis, one of the designers of the Bristol Pound, for their thoughts on a recent statement by Dan Crane in the New York Times, who wrote of Transition currency notes, “it’s easy to imagine such notes being fetishized as audiophiles do vinyl”. www.transitionnetwork.org/pre-order-ou…s-transition

We hear a lot about local currencies, but never from the designers of them. So we asked Rick Lawrence, designer of the Totnes Pound, Charlie Waterhouse, designer of the Brixton Pound, and Owen Davis, one of the designers of the Bristol Pound, what they bear in mind when designing a local currency note, one that captures the spirit of their place. https://www.transitionnetwork.org/pre-order-our-new-publication-21-stories-transition

We hear a lot about local currencies, but never from the designers of them. So we asked Rick Lawrence, designer of the Totnes Pound, Charlie Waterhouse, designer of the Brixton Pound, and Owen Davis, one of the designers of the Bristol Pound, what they consider to be the ingredients of a good bank note. https://www.transitionnetwork.org/pre-order-our-new-publication-21-stories-transition

Rob Hopkins visits the heart of Brussels in the heart of Europe to see the Potager Alhambra, a remarkable food growing project in the middle of a street. He met Sébastien Mathieu from Transition 1000 Bruxelles who told him more about it. You can also see a great video about the group's work at https://vimeo.com/143176993.

Julie Brown is Director of Growing Communities in Hackney. Here she talks to Rob Hopkins of Transition Network about food, fairness and the experience of Growing Communities.

Nicole Vosper writes at www.emptycagesdesign.org and her work focuses on permaculture and prisons, and also on prison abolition. Here she talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

We spoke to Julien Bernard about the role 1000Bxl en Transition played in an incredible community-led response to the refugee crisis in Brussels, a response founded on Transition values. It's as heartwarming a story as has ever been posted here...