Lesley Malpas is the Founder and CEO of Operation Future Hope, a programme for schools designed to educate young people about the state...

Sometimes I come across a book that confirms and clarifies a worldview I had held for some time but never quite managed to articulate....

Regenesis, which is lucid, genuinely exciting, insightful and scary, but simultaneously gives us hope...

The workshop on 11th June, attended by 15 adults and one child, was both relaxing and inspiring. After a leisurely walk in the heat, we...

Feeding the world without devouring our planet is the subtitle of this absolute gem. This was a friend’s choice for our book group of six...

This year Climate Action Day took place on 6th November and was organised by XR Waltham Forest and kindly hosted by St John's Church...

Back in February 2020 it was impossible to imagine what the year ahead had in store for us. I was already a couple of months into...

Transition Leytonstone holds a fantastic collection of books on topics from ecology to gardening, renewable energy to social justice....

I want to share a couple of statistics. One: every £10 spent at a locally owned shop generates £25 for that area; the same spent in a...

The Community Fridge continues to go from strength to strength - securing grant funding and attracting donations of food from local growers.

The latest member of Transition Leytonstone takes a moment to introduce herself and talk about what she hopes to do with the organisation.

Sandra reflects on how a lack of opportunity to learn about and spend time in Nature might lead to a lack of engagement with 'green' issues.

Initial thoughts on what the current crisis might mean for Transition towns and for local communities.

Leytonstone Methodist Church asked Transition Leytonstone to help them design and create a new garden at the front of the church.

Do you grow your own food? How about mushrooms? - highly nutritious but also crucial to the health of soils and ecosystems.

An account of a recent workshop at the Museum of London on air quality and plants which help clean our air of pollutants. On 17th March I...

Vertical Veg Workshop The next event in our Community Garden will be a suitably seasonal affair, with free soup, artisan bread, cake, and...

The newest and most energy-hungry methods of food preservation are well known to all: refrigeration and freezing – and of course,...

SHARING FOOD, SEED AND SPACE Waltham Forest’s very first urban food growing festival, will be kicking off on Friday March 21 with Grow...

Last Sunday’s weather was miserable, marked by bone-chilling humid air, an absent sun, sodden, squelchy soil, with a monotonous pall of...