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Chris McCartney

Chris manages our social media and creates our monthly newsletters. She has a background in journalism and campaigning and has worked for Oxfam and Friends of the Earth. She is a founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Belfast Tool Library, community projects which bring people together to share resources and skills and reduce consumption. She loves to tell stories that balance a glimpse of a better future and some practical steps to get there. She is a novice veg grower and fair-weather cyclist.

Made Up Kitchen

Eat, grow, share: Communities building food resilience

By Chris McCartney, Transition Together

Building resilient local communities is at the heart of Transition; and access to good quality, fresh food that is healthy, for people and planet, is a core element.

  • December 13, 2022
Waterworks Park

From waterworks to wild water park in community hands

By Chris McCartney, Transition Together

From a historic waterworks into a place for urban wild swimming, a community group in East London wants to buy up and rewild more than five hectares of concrete into a ‘brownfield rainforest’.

  • August 24, 2022
Kew the Transition

Meet the new Transition groups

By Chris McCartney, Transition Together

What’s it really like to start a Transition group? To stick your head above the parapet and see who in your community would like to engage in community action to build a better future? And how do you get something off the ground with all the constraints of a global pandemic?

  • January 27, 2022
Green Guardians guide page

Glasgow communities showing COP leaders the way

By Chris McCartney, Transition Together

Plugging in to a wider network of other groups also developing grassroots climate responses can help our local ideas and projects to flourish, help us learn and share with others that have the vision of more sustainable and equal communities where we have control over our day to day lives.

  • December 16, 2021
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