By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Under the right conditions society, with all its structures and systems, can change as rapidly as the mercury in the thermometers is rising.
By Jennifer Harvey Sallin, illuminem
It’s worth noting that all integration work – in our relationship with the climate and in any area of our lives – is not a “holy grail” we find at one moment in time and then the work is done.
By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog
July 28 was EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. On July 29 we went into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature.
By Angelica Almazan, Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
After four years of struggle, the Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán in Mezquitic, Jalisco, will directly receive federal resources to manage amongst themselves without the intervention of local officials or political parties.
By Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence
I don’t want to prepare for the end of the world. I want to prepare for tomorrow, and I don’t want to do it alone. I want to do it with you, my family, our community and a few more people who know a little bit more than me about how things work. Tomorrow is definitely coming and that is all we really know about it.
By Jeremiah Castelo, World Water Reserve
By collaborating with our community members and fellow growers, and sharing a variety of crops throughout the landscape, the diversity of food will expand beyond what we’d be able to manage singlehandedly.
By Russell Arben Fox, In media res
[T}he legacy of Occupy Wall Street was "something that touches our deepest spiritual yearning," in a very un-Walzerian sense; "its practice says: 'We will no longer live in hatred and competition. We will live in love and community.'"
By Amy Scaife, Transition Network
What if the plans for the thriving future became widely available? With accessible language, beautiful art and friendly faces to discuss and plot new plans with? What if these hubs of information, inclusivity and imagination popped up in a park, or a high street corner, or place of worship?
By Tom Llewellyn, Shareable
As we’ve discussed at length on The Response podcast, climate change-fueled disasters are destructive, scary, and rapidly increasing in both frequency and impact all over the world.
By Nick Anim, Transition Network
How do we turn those visions from rewilded imaginations into reality? How might ideas of initiatives for environmental sustainability and social justice drive transformative collective action?
By Rachel Klucewicz, Transition US
CH’s Mini-Garden project was the perfect solution to reaching those with limited lawn-space and reducing in-person contact during the pandemic.
By Robert Somerville, Resilience.org
A craft that is rooted in its materials inevitably places you within the natural world rather than being simply an observer of nature. You develop a personal relationship with the landscape and the lives of animals, insects, birds and plants within it.