Turn Off the Lights on the Way Out
I started this blog with a longing familiar to many: stop the world, I wanna get off!
Society
On Convening Faith Groups
It behoves us as Transitioners to try to diffuse a message to invite people to consider how we’re moving towns and villages and hamlets towards resilience to create that space, because we bump up against so many different types of people here.
The Precariat and the Basic Income
The concept of the precariat, from Wiktionary: “People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.”
Design for a Shared Future
Sharing with others is one of the positive stories to tell in the face of a harsh future, but how we tell that story is paramount.
Agribusiness and Food Corporations Are not People
Five years ago today, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating setback to those working to reform our food and farm system.
The Mariner’s Rule
One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all.
The Journey of Setting up a Reuse and Repair Centre – a Solution for a Circular economy
As consumers, we are taught to be dissatisfied with what we have.
Socially Smart Sanitation
What if sanitation is not just about the kit? If sanitation solutions cannot be mass-produced at will, like a box of software, what, then, is the alternative?
Why We’re Not Ditching Resilience Yet…
What does it mean to live in this time, and how might we keep some sanity?
What Does the Power to Convene Look Like in Stroud?
What does the Power to Convene look like in the work of Transition Stroud?
Resilience Roundup – Jan 18
Why some teams are smarter / Local food pioneer Joan Gussow / Bitcoins / Deep democracy
Is “resilience” the new sustainababble?
Suddenly, “resilience” is everywhere. It’s the subject of serious books and breezy news articles, of high-minded initiatives and of many, many conferences. After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey “A State of Resilience.”
