Awakening to a Path Beyond the Hero’s Journey
If we want a Planetary Awakening, we need to be thinking new story forms that celebrate interdependence, cooperation, and resilience.
Society
Blessed are the Cheesemakers
Until relatively recently in human history, making cheese was an intensely local, home or village craft passed down and adapted generation to generation.
Ireland in a Strange Time
My American friends and family will be interested to note that their country is not the only country having a bizarre election.
New Guide Will Help You Take Action in the Streets
If these projects inspire you, it’s probably time to launch an intervention of your own.
No Organism is Truly Autonomous – Including Us
Many people say we need to focus on solutions that scale, but to me that’s globalisation-thinking wearing a green coat.
One Year in Transition: becoming an international community of practice
Gaps are good, they invite innovation, but the odd things about this gap is that almost no one I meet from the world of learning is talking about the fact that education is no longer fit for purpose.
Telling the Story of the Bristol Pound
Prosperity Parade, funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, includes eight tales about the new entrepreneurial spirit, where people are finding ways of kickstarting their local economic engines, often in very poor areas, and by doing so increasing their independence from central and local government.
New film: ‘8 days @ COP21’
We are delighted to present our new film, ‘8 days @ COP21’. It captures those days last December when the climate negotiations took place in Paris, and the experiences of some of the Transitioners who were there.
Recoded City
Recoded City is filled with inspiring confirmation that, when it comes to shelter and placemaking in an age of limits, a city’s primary resource is the energy and motivation of its inhabitants.
A Tour Around my Toilet
After a string of posts on eco/modernism, it’s time for something earthier.
Energy policy and uninformed opinion
Famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith used to respond to questions about the direction of the economy and financial markets by saying: "I answer because I’m asked not because I know."
On Having a Great Vision, and Not ‘Blowing an Uncertain Trumpet’
A dream is a fantasy, an aspiration that has yet to touch the ground. We have them all the time. A vision has power to it.
