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How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong
How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong I have written many posts relating to the fact that we live in a finite world. At some point, our ability to extract resources becomes constrained. At the same time, population keeps increasing. The usual outcome when population is too high for resources is “overshoot and collapse.” But this […]
Community-County Collaboration for Neighborhood Preparedness
Community-County Collaboration for Neighborhood Preparedness Port Townsend’s unique county-community neighborhood preparedness project, NPREP, grew from a big-hearted sister-city project that took volunteers from a coastal town in Washington State to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (pop 9,260). That isolated community had been hard hit by Hurricane Katrina. Federal aid dollars poured into nearby New Orleans, while […]
Nafeez Ahmed – Taking a Step Back to Move Forward in Times of Transition
Nafeez Ahmed – Taking a Step Back to Move Forward in Times of Transition Systems journalist Nafeez Ahmed joins us to discuss why it is so important to draw on systems thinking to understand global politics. Nafeez Ahmed guides us through the intricacies of systems thinking from within and outside the IR Academy, throwing light […]
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discuss panel orientation and spacing for a project on simultaneously growing crops under PV Arrays while producing electricity from the panels in South Dearfield, Massachusetts. The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE project seeking to improve the environmental compatibility […]
Building Community Resilience: Before, During, and After COVID-19
Building Community Resilience: Before, During, and After COVID-19 Dear friends and fellow Transitioners, So much has changed in so short a time: tens of thousands of people are now testing positive for the coronavirus daily in the US, most of the world is self-isolating at home, large sectors of our economy have ground to a […]
10 Stories of Transition in the US: The Evolution of Transition Town Media
10 Stories of Transition in the US: The Evolution of Transition Town Media The following story is the fourth installment in a new series we’re calling “10 Stories of Transition in the US.” Throughout 2018, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Transition Movement here in the United States, we will explore 10 diverse and […]
10 Stories of Transition in the US: The Spread of Repair Cafes
10 Stories of Transition in the US: The Spread of Repair Cafes In the midst of America’s Great Depression, merchants and manufacturers were looking for ways to quickly reboot the national economy. To get more people working and factories operating again, so the story goes, two main things needed to happen: First, people had to […]
Talking climate, taking action – a quest for belonging
Talking climate, taking action – a quest for belonging This is the final post in a series of blogs from our Guest Editor Kate Heath, an ex-humanitarian worker now based in Paris – exploring how to have constructive conversations about climate change. In this, my final reflections on the value, science and art of talking climate […]
Transition in the Age of Denial
Transition in the Age of Denial
There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy
There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy Jason Hickel: You can almost feel the planet writhing. This summer brought some of the biggest, most destructive storms in recorded history: Harvey laid waste to huge swathes of Texas; Irma left Barbuda virtually uninhabitable; Maria ravaged Dominica and plunged Puerto Rico into darkness. The […]
New Stock Market Crash Inevitable
New Stock Market Crash Inevitable Every production phase or society or other human invention goes through a so-called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this article I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization and and that a new stock market […]
Book Review: ‘Everything Gardens’ by Luigi Russi.
Book Review: ‘Everything Gardens’ by Luigi Russi. Academic work on Transition can often be infuriating rather than illuminating. I was once asked to peer review a paper on Transition, a movement I was central in kickstarting and shaping, but I had to decline on the grounds that the paper was utterly incomprehensible. While some research […]
Beyond Extinction: Transition to post-capitalism is inevitable
Beyond Extinction: Transition to post-capitalism is inevitable In Margaret Atwood’s powerful essay on the reality of climate change — and its implications for the future of oil-dependent industrial civilization — she tells two vastly distinct stories of our future. The first is a tale of dystopia — a future so bleak, it would make Hollywood moguls looking for the next science fiction […]
