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The Local Entrepreneur Forum in Totnes in May was the fourth, and it’s been an amazing incubator for new enterprises while also building a community around the idea of a more resilient, local economy, and generating over £70,000 of investment into new enterprises. But until now, it has never happened outside Totnes. Transition Town Brixton’s […]
This is the third part in our series of extracts from the Transition Enterprise Handbook. There are numerous possibilities around the involvement of people in an enterprise, from just you operating as a sole trader to “fully mutual” co-operatives where the enterprise is owned and controlled by everyone it trades with. The process of the running the […]
We are often asked “what would a Transition local government look like?” It’s a complex question, but one Council taking a pioneering approach to its local economy is Preston in Lancashire. Preston City Council, working with Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) recently published ‘Creating a Good Local Economy: the role of anchor institutions‘, a remarkable […]
Today we’d like to introduce two more free guides from the REconomy Project. We already heard from Jo Taylor about the Events Toolkit for Transition Initiatives, so we asked Anna Lodge from REconomy to tell us more about the other two… Can you tell us about these two new publications, and what led to those being chosen […]
Local currencies are being developed in locations around the world. An inspiring, effective and influential part of REconomy work within communities. Exeter, in the UK, is due to launch later this year. Rob Hopkins visited the team to hear more. A couple of weeks I took the short train ride to Exeter to meet Ian, Melanie, […]
For the next two months on the Transition Network website we will be talking REconomy, looking in depth at this aspect of Transition which is about creating new enterprises, new economies, new livelihoods. We’ll talk to entrepreneurs, to people in local authorities embracing this approach, to people about to launch local currencies, to people around the world […]
This post introduces the results of a recent REconomy campaign which highlights the enormous potential of the enterprises emerging from Transition, or similar places. We will be promoting the top twenty report, along with the Local Economic Evaluation/Blueprint findings, far and wide across government, the media, and other key organisations to help illustrate the opportunity […]
There’s a wide range of organisations that offer professional services aimed at entrepreneurs and new enterprises, usually on a fee-based arrangement. Some of these are listed in the Help for entrepreneurs from other organisations section. It’s not our intent to keep track of all of these organisations, but to highlight the kind of support […]
Features of the new economy…. and the awakening of the sleeping giants of economic shift change Many of you will know that the Transition Network has unleashed the beast, opened Pandora’s box and embarked on an economics adventure. This session will introduce you to this adventure and the REconomy Project, which was set up […]
In addition to addressing climate change impacts and working within natural resource limits, we propose that a new local economy integrates business not just with the natural world, but also with society, creating value that is shared more equitably, offering opportunities for everyone. Note. This suggested feature of the new economy is one in […]
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