What if Friday September 20th 2019 was the Day the World Tipped?

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

What would It feel like to live through an era-defining, seismic social, cultural and economic transition? A tipping point beyond which nothing felt the same and everything felt possible? Clearly such things don’t come along very often, indeed they are pretty rare. So rare in fact that we usually don’t allow ourselves to believe that they are possible. But they are. And we are in one right now. And it’s amazing. Let me explain.

Transition U: An Invitation to Join a Global Knowledge Action Network of Educators

By John Foran, Resilience.org

As the school year beckons, I would like to invite teachers to join me in co-creating an on-line knowledge action network – Transition U – as a space to share our thoughts, materials, best practices, syllabi, and any other resources we have for engaging our students both inside and outside the classroom in learning about the climate crisis, climate justice, and building resilient communities wherever we are.

Demise of Totnes Pound won’t Stop this English Town Pushing Back Against Austerity

By Brendan Barrett

The Totnes pound is just one example of the kind of outside the box thinking that has kept this local community resilient in the face of austerity. Since 2010, the pressure on local authority budgets across England has been intense, with a 50% decline in central funding support.

Transition Towns: An Evolutionary Perspective

By Don Hall, Transition US

It’s been said before, but these are truly the best of times and the worst of times. More frequent natural disasters, supercharged by climate change, as well as the ongoing circus in Washington, are waking more and more people up every day to the realization that we can no longer afford to be merely passive consumers of somebody else’s products.

Stepping Up and Reaching Out – Stories and Mapping

By Richard Couldrey, Mike Thomas, Transition Network

It was great to have 146 Transitioners, from 84 different groups, come along to the workshops. But what brought them here? What was their passion and when did they begin their Transition journey? All of this fed into the beginning of our conversations about connecting regionally.

‘So You’ve Declared a Climate Emergency, Now What?’ Event Review

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

What a climate emergency would mean for Exeter University, and what a genuinely low-carbon, resilient, localised, embedded, civic, ‘anchor institution’ would look like is a huge conversation, one that will need to cultivate an imaginative culture where anything feels possible, but on the strength of this event, that process has, hopefully, begun.

Le Pacte Pour la Transition (Transition Pact)

By Yaz Brien, Transition Network

The population covered by local governments that have declared a climate emergency now approaches 50 million citizens in 8 countries – and this movement of movements is growing.

‘Imagination Taking Power’: my Transition Tour de France

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

I’ve written this so that when my grandchildren ask me where I was when the great rebellion began, when the great Transition began its inevitable momentum, I can show them this blog post capturing a remarkable week in France

Transition Streets Gets an Update!

By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US

This 2019 revision of the Transition Streets handbook not only captures what's new, it includes additional information to consider in how we think about the lives we lead and the changes we want to make. 

Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness, Part 2

By Erik Lindberg, Resilience.org

How do we define “good” or “excellence” without imposing an ideology or world-view on others who have their own?  Who judges and according to what standards?  If such a reconciliation is impossible, will we be required to make a difficult choice?  Or is there no real choice at all?