This month the Transition Free Press, a new national newspaper, launched its preview edition. It’s a blueprint of how the paper will look, and the kinds of subjects we aim to cover every quarter – news with comment and context, features and reviews.
As well as viewing it online, there will be printed copies that will be available at various events, including the Transition Network Conference in September 2012. Plus you can order copies by post (see bottom of page).
“Where are we going?” asks the editorial. “We’re heading for the future. We are not afraid to share our views, ask awkward questions, laugh or explore paths other papers don’t go down in order to get there. What we want is to capture the real-life experiences of people who are discussing and doing Transition, learning to share skills and resources, starting up social enterprises, thinking hard about alternative ways of organising the way we do energy and economics.
We’re looking at the small details in the big picture. We’re optimistic in the face of tough times. But we are also real. We’re real about the awesome challenges of peak oil and climate change and the economic collapse. We’re real about the hard work the projects featured in these pages take (including this paper!) We want to reflect that feet-on-the-ground reality, mixed with the cheerfulness that comes when you’re working with your fellows for a common purpose.
Most of all we want to connect the dots. Our old-style, fossil-fueled culture works by separating out all the important subjects, by keeping everyone separated and alone. We want to connect people in Transition, connect campaigners and thinkers and people who never heard of energy descent or alternative currency, open up a dialogue, write another story.”
To make future editions happen, we need your support too – in particular we hope you like it enough to want to have copies to give out in your community. Please fill in this short survey to give us an idea of your interest in distributing copies:
Please get in touch if you would like to contribute or advertise or get involved in any way with future editions.
For editorial contact Charlotte Du Cann charlotteducann@transitionnetwork.org
For distribution contact Mike Grenville mgrenville@gmail.com
Order print copies with Paypal. Click here: 4 copies or 8 copies
Please contact Mike for prices for more copies.
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I would love to read the paper online but how do you enlarge the picture? Even after enlargement I find the writing too small to read! Can we have it in an easier format please.
Hi Sue, i had exactly the same thought when I tried reading it first time. But you can see the print much more clearly by clicking on the single page icon to the right of the next/back buttons at the top of the magazine ‘app’. All the best, Pat