Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local
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.”
Tag: Transition movement
Ten years of Transition in Luxembourg
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.
What If? there was a daily imagination lesson?
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
The imagination is radical. It is the only way to get us beyond what is and to get us to what if. It can get us beyond business as usual, beyond what is in front of us.
Wellbeing Farm, a “Slow Tech Living Laboratory” for the Hudson Valley Bioregion
By Andrew Willner, The Center for Post Carbon Logistics
Wellbeing Farm will explore an array of innovative heritage and leading-edge technologies by which individuals, communities, and the Hudson Valley Bioregion can thrive in decades ahead – designing and realizing pragmatic, environmentally and economically sound tools for peacefully, equitably, and intelligently transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Deepening our analysis: Connecting the dots between social justice, extractive economy, & ecological crises
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
Transition leaders from across the country came together to explore how Transition US could deepen, shift, or adapt our analysis of the crises we face: away from an emphasis on peak oil & resource depletion, and toward a more nuanced understanding of the extractive economy and its connection to both social justice and ecological crises.
Transforming the University to Confront the Climate Crisis, Part 3
By John Foran, Resilience.org
This final part of the series presents a vision of new type of university, exemplified in the world-spanning Ecoversities Alliance, and dreamed of in Transition U and Eco Vista U, two prototypes that I am involved in co-creating with students, staff, faculty, and community members in Santa Barbara, California, and in the Transition US movement.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 14 Rob Hopkins
By Vicki Robin, Rob Hopkins, Resilience.org
Rob Hopkins is an author and a Co-Founder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. He approaches the question of “What could possibly go right?” with a fascination in the power of imagination for our future.
Rob Hopkins Reviews ‘Human Kind: A Hopeful History’ by Rutger Bregman
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
Rutger Bregman’s new book, ‘Human Kind’, argues that, in essence, “most people, deep down, are decent”, and that the world would be a very different place if we were to recognise that. It may be one of the most important books you will ever read.
What the Transition Movement can Teach us About how to ‘Bounce Forward’
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea of resilience. Usually framed as the ability to ‘bounce back’, it is seen in the Transition movement as being better imagined as the capacity to ‘bounce forward’, i.e. to use it as the opportunity to move forward to something better.
From What Is to What If: A Green Stimulus and the Importance Envisioning the “Impossible”
By Don Hall, Transition US
Though many of our ideas may seem “impossible” now, history shows us again and again that today’s “what ifs” can become tomorrow’s “what is” during a time of crisis – but only if we take them seriously enough and put in the work that's necessary to bring them to fruition.
Eco Vista: Building a Transition Town in a Student Community in California
By John Foran, Resilience.org
“Eco Vista” was the name chosen in 2017 by a group of students at the University of California, Santa Barbara acting together with long-time community members to describe their vision of turning their rather unusual community of Isla Vista into an ecovillage in the next ten years. Unusual because 23,000 people live together in an area of just .54 square miles, with eighty percent of them between the ages of 18 and 24.
Transition Towns, Re-localisation, COVID-19 and the Fracking Industry
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
Thus, although Transition Towns thinking came about primarily through considerations about peak oil, all essential efforts toward re-localisation and community resilience may provide the strongest available single buffer against the many storms that are likely to prevail upon us.