Transition Network – our New Purpose!
We’re pleased to report that the Transition Network team has agreed a new organisational purpose as part of our recent strategic review.
building community resilience
Public Spaces in an Era of Climate Change
Resilience is a result of connections between people, not a physical feature of a place. So, as we adapt to a changing climate, public spaces are the key to strengthening the community ties that help us bounce back from disaster.
Championing Community Resilience in a Federal Leadership Vacuum
Here at the Island Press Urban Resilience Project, we’re committed to uplifting the voices of a diverse group of activists, academics, and practitioners who are championing these and other issues.
“Always the Same, Always Different”: a Response to Ted Trainer
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.
Getting Past Trump, Part 3: The Futility of “Big Green” Activism: A Conversation With Tim DeChristopher
DeChristohper emphasizes that simply getting rid of Trump as first priority will not solve the environmental crisis. If the system wasn’t sufficiently self-correcting before, and if the status quo is irreparably broken, then it’s clear that some other change in strategy is needed.
Puerto Rico Teenagers take Post-Maria Water Safety into their Own Hands
Water activist Steve Tamar expected just a dozen students to show up to his citizen-science training at Maricao High School in western Puerto Rico this past October. Instead, the sweltering hot auditorium was packed with teenagers looking to help test the island’s water.
Richard Heinberg on Sustainable Nation Podcast
Richard Heinberg joins Sustainable Nation to discuss:
The current state of energy and its contributions to the climate crisis
The shale gas and tight oil bubble
Community resiliency
The transition to a fossil fuel free future
Recommendations and advice for sustainability leaders
From Gut to Gaia: The Internet of Things and Earth Repair
The way ahead will be based on a combination of knowledge obtained remotely, using modern tools and devices, and ways of knowing that are local, experienced directly, contextual, and embodied. When we connect with living systems emotionally, and not just rationally, and focus on the informal, the local and the conversational – things will really begin to change.
Can Folks in the US Find the Peace to Make Sense of the Present and Dream of a Future worth Fighting For?
What strikes me now in writing this, is just how extraordinarily privileged I am to have the peace and space for contemplation and dialogue. My clarity is the product of thousands of miles of travel, hundreds of conversations, days of writing. The major question I’m left with is how on earth can folks in the US find the peace to make sense of the present and dream of a future worth fighting for?
Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Christopher Lyon
For me, resilience is much more complicated than the capacity to ‘bounce back’ from or respond to changes or ‘disturbances’ or other similar definitions. To be useful, resilience must be about what people are doing with the idea, how they know it and apply it, and what happens when they do.
Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Peterborough – Justin Kenrick
Our chapter explores the Transition Movement of grassroots responses to climate change, peak oil and economic contraction, and seeks to place it in the broader context of commons-based responses to climate capitalism.
Where They Teach Students How to Revitalize Their Local Communities
Searching for ways to reconnect and renew, a non-profit organization called the Community Learning Partnership is providing students, instructors, and community groups a model for preparing the next generation of local leaders and activists.