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 Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The function of imagination is to bring “longing into the world”—I’d say that what this does is to create a narrative gap that we are then moved to fill.
By Rob Hopkins, Hide Enomoto
If everyone in every local community starts to believe that and starts to take action, then there will be a synergy and this kind of community transformation would accumulate.
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 Jessica Alvarez-Parfrey, Transition US
Community Resilience in the face of disaster… What does it mean to care for your community in unprecedented times, and how do you successfully navigate a rapidly shifting landscape of needs, opportunities, and challenges?
By Abigail Sykes, Marissa Mommaerts, Transition Network
Young people aren’t going to be attracted to Transition if it stays in its little bubble. I think there’s widespread understanding that Transition needs to reach beyond the choir.
By Nick Amin, Abigail Sykes, Transition Network
But we have to recognise our own part in perpetuating the system. If you don’t care for another human being, what is the point of life?
By Sarah McAdam, Abigail Sykes, Transition Network
I think what’s fundamental to the Transition approach is that we bring people together to find new solutions to entrenched problems. Essential to that is to have the perspectives of all the people who are affected.
By Mark Juedeman, Shawn McFarland
Developed in Australia, a permablitz is an informal gathering in which a group of at least two people come together to: a) create or add to edible gardens, b) share skills related to permaculture and sustainable living, c) build community, and d) have fun!
By Anthony Cara, Rob Hopkins, OuiShare
In the Transition movement, we saw resilience as a way of “bouncing forward”. We wanted to use the anticipation of these shocks to design different and better systems.
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
People often ask, “So what do Transition Town groups do?” One answer to that question would be, “We take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.”
By Wolf von Leipzig, Transition Network
In 2010, after the failure of the Copenhagen World Climate Summit, a new idea paved the way: Transition. Ten years later, the movement has also taken root in Luxembourg.