Taking Resilience to the Streets
By Maggie Fleming, Transition US
Transition Streets brings together small groups of neighbors and supports them in taking effective, practical, money-saving and carbon reduction actions.
Tag: Building Community
Re-Becoming Villagers Wherever We Live
By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television
Mark, founder of City Repair, helps create gathering places with projects like the famous painted street intersections. Brandy, founder of O.U.R. Ecovillage, discusses overcoming regulatory hurdles like narrow zoning laws by working with agencies to find innovative solutions.
The Power of Positive Spin!
By David Leyzerovsky, Project for Public Spaces
Reshaping communities and empowering kids with bikes.
ShareFests: Celebrating an Economy for the People in a City Near You
By Thomas Llewellyn, Shareable
ShareFests are the perfect opportunity to celebrate the city commons and to connect activists excited to create a sharing city together.
Dancing in the streets
By Cecile Andrews, City Living Seattle
It’s easy to be dismissive of all the articles on happiness these days. They make you feel shallow: There are so many problems in the world, and we’re talking about happiness? But, of course, happy people are more likely to vote, to be environmentalists, to be good parents and good coworkers.
The Rise of the Sharing Economy in my Community
By Davie Philip, Reconomy Project
This emerging collaborative way of living and working is a potential economic regeneration strategy for communities, particularly those in rural areas.
Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics & Community Resilience
By Asher Miller, Rob Hopkins, Post Carbon Institute
In this provocative paper, PCI Executive Director Asher Miller and Transition Movement Founder (and PCI Fellow) Rob Hopkins make a convincing case for why the environmental community must embrace post-growth economics and community resilience in their efforts to address the climate crisis.
How to win friends and influence the new economy
By Sarah Byrnes, Open Democracy
Lonely people are more easily controlled and scared, and they are more inclined to accept the status quo. Isolated individuals have little reason to believe in their own agency. It is only by forming networks and communities built on solidarity that most people can make a difference.
Thinking of starting a Transition Initiative?
By Sara Ayech, Transition Network
Are you thinking about starting a new Transition initiative in your town, village or city? I was among those who initiated Transition Dartmouth Park, in North London, around a year and a half ago.
Lost in Transition
By Nathan Baranowski, Iva Carrdus, Vala Publishing
This is a story about Transition Bath, from the eyes of two Transitioners – Nathan and Iva – as they become lost in Transition: moved, inspired and empowered by the achievements and possibilities, but also confused and challenged by the complexities of working with voluntary projects taking on a huge and pressing task.
On Building a Better (and More Resilient) World: Complexity, Community, and the Precautionary Principle
By Laurie Mazur, NewSecurityBeat
From the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to Superstorm Sandy, the last decade has seen an incredible array of natural disasters...The proliferation of disasters is raising awareness about our collective need to minimize vulnerability and to bounce back afterwards – our need for greater resilience.
Peak Moment 231: Columbia Ecovillage (part 2) — Shaping a Life Together
By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television
What’s it like, living in an urban ecovillage? Barbara Ford finds that this size community enables people to contribute while doing what they love.