Practical Projects: Northaw Community Orchard – Mud, Sweat and Volunteers!
Back in 2010 a few of us hardy souls formed Northaw Transition, in our little village in South Hertfordshire.
Society
A Good Place for Everyone to Walk
People have walked for justice and economic opportunity throughout American history.
Resilience Roundup – Oct 23
A roundup of news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere including: The Economic Cost Of Climate Change, What Your New Liberal Majority Government Means for Climate, Environment, Science and Transparency, Death by Fracking, IEA report on benefits of coal is ‘deeply misleading’…
Other Names, other Colours: Transition, Latino Style
To be sustainable, small and authentic is better.
Solar Panels and Solidarity
When 60 women in Edamalakudi carried about a hundred solar panels on their heads across 18 kilometres of hill, forest and wild elephant territory, they made history of sorts.
Thousands Reject the Extractivist Logic at the World Bank-IMF meeting in Peru
The annual governors’ meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank opened on October 5 in Peru’s capital city.
Syria on your Doorstep: a Community Response to Refugees in Hungary
If there is any good news, it’s that as transitioners we already have some ‘handles’ on dealing with reactions to overpowering issues.
Naturalizing Hierarchies
Over his lifetime, Jim Koplin made his analytical way through the hierarchical systems that define power in our world— patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism—always focusing on how systems operate not in isolation but as part of complex webs.
“Seeing Prisons as One Massive Design Opportunity”
My perspective on the prison system is that it’s inherently violent.
Resilience Roundup – Oct 16
A roundup of news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere including: Exxon’s climate lie: ‘No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad’ | The International Energy Agency consistently underestimates wind and solar power. Why? | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: North Dakota | Eagle Ford, Bakken, Niobrara shale plays set to lose nearly 115,000 barrels per day of production next month…
Retrotopia: The Scent of Ink on Paper
Our narrator, roaming the streets of the capitol of the Lakeland Republic, visits a newsstand and a public library, and discovers that information and knowledge are two different things…
Climate stories: Environment, Colonial Legacies and Systemic Change
Meaningful action on climate change today means nothing less than widespread paradigm shifts across social, economic, political, cultural, and built infrastructures.
