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WORLD NEWS Finding hope among the ruins

During the next few weeks we will be featuring key articles from the second issue of Transition Free Press. We start today with the news pages and a frontline report from Athens by Lia Zorzou. Our news pages cover the … Continue reading

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Grassroots news feeds the heart and mind

As printed media struggles financially and the diversity of the world’s free press diminishes, small publications like the Transition Free Press make their way through the cracks. It’s key, we feel, that the presses keep rolling and our home-grown news … Continue reading

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Merry May Day and welcome to our new summer edition!

Merry May Day everyone! And welcome to our on-line summer edition. We’re 24 pages of full-on, full colour news and views. Great photographs, great articles, contributed by Transitioners and community activists working in the field. Ordinary people doing extraordinary stuff in … Continue reading

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summer edition is here!

Our bright new edition is arriving at over 50 distributor hubs today. So do let us know what you think when they arrive. This issue we are welcoming new distributors from Transition initiatives, community groups and local businesses all over … Continue reading

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we’ve gone to press and new summer edition is on its way!

We sent our second edition (May-July) to the printers last week and on Tuesday bundles of our sparkling new newspaper will be arriving on Transition doorsteps around the UK. As well as giving a unique Transition twist on news and … Continue reading

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April update: revving up to issue 2

Here in our TFP virtual office the editorial crew are hard at work, finishing the second edition of Transition Free Press. We’re really looking forward to seeing this issue spring into action (well, looking forward to Spring actually!) and sending … Continue reading

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Tips for Distribution #1

Here are a few tips from and for TFP distributors for getting Transition Free Press out of your bundles and into people’s hands. These are by no means the last words on distribution, and everyone and each group will have … Continue reading

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Hold that page! March update from the Transition Free Press

A really great paper – a good balance between wide-reaching articles about climate change, general topics about renewables etc., and case studies of local projects and achievements. Most of us got involved in green groups because we thought governments would … Continue reading

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Introducing local broadsheets

Alongside our regular national paper the TFP crew has been quietly road-testing local TI newsletters, trying out new designs  and ways of reporting from their own initiatives and neighbourhoods. From the outset we promised the distributor hubs any design or … Continue reading

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TFP gets into the groove on the Transition (radio) Show

Transition Show on Stroud FM is a terrific one-hour slot that has been running weekly for two years with local news, Transition announcements and one guest interview. Last Friday, Transition Free Press editor Charlotte Du Cann spoke to the show’s presenters … Continue reading

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