Come to the Regenerative Communities Summit!

By John Foran, Resilience.org

This impulse toward activism is the sound of love when it roars–when it demands to be heard. The universal is deeply personal.

Hubs of Resilience

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?

A revolution of the imagination

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.

Hide Enomoto on his new book about the story of Transition in Japan

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. 

The What Next Summit: a pivotal moment for social justice in Transition?

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?

Community Resilience in the Face of Disaster

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?

Transition Voices on Social Justice – Part Three

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.

Transition Voices on Social Justice – Part Two

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?

Transition Voices on Social Justice – Part One

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.

Permablitzing Our Way to Community

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!

Resilience lacks radicality. Let’s cultivate our imagination seriously

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.

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.”