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Hubs of Resilience
Hubs of Resilience In December of last year, thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the Transition: Bounce Forward project distributed £140,000 to 112 Transition projects across England. One of those projects was hubRen, a Hub of Resilience imagined by Amy Scaife of Transition Leytonstone who asked herself: What if the plans for the thriving future became widely available? […]
Bee Roadzz
Bee Roadzz Transition Marlborough wanted to help save the bees so they started joining up landscapes to connect pollinators and people. This is the story of a small, local project to help bees. They are in trouble, along with all flying insects, and we can all do something to help. There are 25 native species of […]
My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.
My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat. For those who care about the world and the people and creatures we share it with, the last 6 weeks has offered a barrage of dire news. The new IPCC report called for “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. We learnt that since the […]
Falcon in the storm #04 – Critical Mass Heaters
Falcon in the storm #04 – Critical Mass Heaters In our 4th guest post from Gergő Benedek, we look at rural energy issues across Hungary. While Hungary is preparing to invest into the most ambitious energy project of its entire history – building a new nuclear power plant – the rural areas of the country […]
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 […]
Some Thoughts on Systems Change
Some Thoughts on Systems Change It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change. There is an ongoing litany of alarming and depressing news regarding climate change and the growing gap between our aspirations for addressing […]
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 […]
Shaun Chamberlin on the Ecological Land Coop.
Shaun Chamberlin on the Ecological Land Coop. Food is an issue that galvanizes so many Transition communities, but many of the classic Transition activities around food, like Landshare and Abundance projects, are to some extent ways of making the best of the ever-shrinking space available for ecological growing. Nothing wrong with that, but it meant […]
