Transition Towns – A Reply to Rob Hopkins
By Ted Trainer, Resilence.org
Thanks to Rob for his reply to my recent thoughts on the Transition Towns movement. Here are some brief notes in response.
Tag: Transition movement
Conservativism Now? Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture
By Erik Lindberg, Resilience.org
Growth is the social glue that has held liberal industrial societies together, which is one of several connected reasons why we won’t address our relationship to our natural ecology by becoming “more liberal” or “more progressive.” Sustainability, then, is neither liberal nor progressive.
“Always the Same, Always Different”: a Response to Ted Trainer
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
The late John Peel once said of The Fall that they were “always the same, always different”. The same could be said of Ted Trainer’s critiques of Transition. He just published another one, many of the points in which he has made before, and I have already responded to here and here. But there are some elements to his latest critique which, on behalf of Transition Network, I would like to address.
The Transition Towns Movement … going where?
By Ted Trainer, Resilience.org
The global predicament cannot be solved other than through a Transition Towns movement, and the emergence of such a movement has been of immense importance. But I fear that the present movement is not going to do what’s needed.
10 Stories of Transition in the US: Woodstock NY Transition’s Working Group Support
By Steve McAllister, Transition US
One of the biggest challenges faced by any Transition Initiative is that they are largely non-hierarchical, volunteer-based organizations.
10 Stories of Transition in the US: The Evolution of Transition Town Media
By Steve McAllister, Transition US
"Our Transition Initiative reminds us that our community doesn’t have to passively wait for a bleak future to crash down on us," says Myles. "We are building a new cultural standard in our local area, of caring relationships with each other and our earth.
Sustainable St Albans Week 2018
By Gail Jackson, Transition Network
Sustainable St Albans Week – a Transition St Albans initiative – does make steps to get the mainstream to engage with climate change – but we came at it, not from science, but from necessity, borne out of our personal motivations about climate change; tiredness and frustration that we couldn’t get more people on board.
A Report from #CTRLshift2018
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
It was billed as “an emergency summit for change”, and it was a call that drew around 150 people from across the UK, and even some from further afield. Hosted at The Edge, a community-funded church building in the centre of Wigan just round the corner from the actual Wigan Pier (yes, that one, the one with the road famously leading to it), the event, exactly a year before Brexit becomes (or doesn’t) a reality, was co-presented by at least 40 organisations.
Local and Regional Community Resilience Building is Going Global
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
The passion and enthusiasm at the Gaia Education/GEN/Transition Towns tent was infectious and nourishing. Overall, what most filled me with hope was that the conversations about local and regional resilience-building and the need for a deeper transformation are now global conversations, offering a common ground for collective action beyond multi-lateral dialogues.
10 Stories of Transition in the US: Transition Twin Cities’ Grove of Life
By Steve McAllister, Transition US
Two of the key goals for any Transition Initiative just starting out are to raise awareness about Transition and build a robust base of supporters. When members of Transition groups in the Twin Cities of Minnesota heard about the Northern Spark festival, they knew it was a golden opportunity.