A really important test case has just emerged around transformative adaptation. The Slapton Line is famous as a road that played host to the D-Day rehearsals of American soldiers. It's also famous for its beauty: cutting across Slapton Ley - a lake and nature reserve of significant ecological interest. It's also an economic and community lifeline for the many residents who live in nearby villages. It has also just collapsed, as a result of sea erosion: the primary enemy facing the community that of climate breakdown, rather than the Germans.

Something interesting is happening at University of Sussex. Today was Refreshers Fair, where student societies put on stalls to recruit new members for the coming term. It's pretty standard university activity and I was there on a stall with my Forest Garden Society. What made this refreshers fair different was the participation of a brand new student society at Sussex: Reform Society….

I met Jools just over two years ago, at the community Christmas light ‘switch-on’ at the Community-owned Moulsecoomb pub, The Bevy. I was living close by and Postcode Revolution had existed for only a few months …