Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Peterborough – Justin Kenrick
By Rob Hopkins, Justin Kenrick, Transition Network
Our chapter explores the Transition Movement of grassroots responses to climate change, peak oil and economic contraction, and seeks to place it in the broader context of commons-based responses to climate capitalism.
EU Referendum: 2 Transitioners debate ‘In’ or ‘Out’
By Justin Kenrick, Alexis Rowell, Transition Culture
There is just over a week to go until the UK votes on whether it wants to stay in the European Union, or to leave.
The Transition Movement in Global Perspective
By Tom Henfrey, Justin Kenrick, Transition Culture
The importance to Transition of both community and cultural commons is deep-seated.
Everyone is the Mother of Victory
By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia
Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat.
Recognizing our rights to live in our forests is part of the solution to climate change
By Justin Kenrick, New Internationalist Blog
The Sengwer community has been repeatedly evicted by the government’s forest guards from their forests and glades at Embobut, high in the Cherangany Hills in Western Kenya.
The Climate and the Commons
By Justin Kenrick, Feasta
The premise of this chapter is that there is a proliferating movement of initiatives seeking to defend the commons (mostly in the Global South) or restore the commons (mostly in the Global North), to ensure our survival and well-being. This chapter is also premised on the notion that we still have time to act to restore our socio-ecological sustainability.
This hugely hopeful moment
By Justin Kenrick, Scottish Left Review
Even though there is huge fear, dislocation, unemployment and suffering powering through Europe and America just as it has been powering through so many other parts of the world for so long. Even when it becomes absolutely clear that in the current system, in order to keep those at the top ‘safe’’, everyone else is being pulverised as the financiers and their professional and political accomplices are rescued with the money of the rest of us. Even though that financial crisis is fast becoming a sovereign debt crisis and the free market’s gun is being held to country after country’s heads in Europe just as the IMF has done for decades elsewhere. Even though the oil tanker of economic growth is fast developing huge holes that no billions of dollars can plug. Even though, or should we say, because of this: we are living in a hugely hopeful moment.
Transition branching out? Land reform: losing and recovering the Commons
By Justin Kenrick, Transition Network
The power of the Transition to Unsustainability relies on the threat of physical force backed up by the story that there is no alternative: that there is no way of belonging. Here in Scotland (as I am sure elsewhere) that story has been given the lie over the last 15 years as communities on the west coast have taken back their land into community ownership.