On the Way to Taking Root
Ecodrom93 enables Roma families in the suburbs of Paris to grow their own vegetables and make a home for themselves in the community.
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The Other Side of the Coin
In a deprived district of the small Belgian city of Ghent, the local Toreke coin reveals how big the transformative impact of alternative currency systems can be.
A Tale of Two Supermarkets: One Transition Town’s Efforts to Respond to Gentrification
We must always ask: who is community resilience really for?
Resilience Reflections with Adrian Ayres Fisher
What gives me hope is meeting and reading or hearing about all the people all over the world from so many cultures who are working in so many ways to help ecosystems recover…
Inner Transition sans frontières!
About a year ago I started hosting on line conversations for people involved with Inner Transition in different countries.
A Community Resilience Take on The Great Transition
A review of Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition.
A Step Toward Transformation
In Reading, the United States’ second poorest city, the residents’ group Permacultivate is practicing and preaching local food production.
Economy, Ecology, Equity: Talking Resilience with Nikki Silvestri
You take away politics, take away whether you think trickle-down [economics] works, take away even what you think about race. Just look at this community. Are the families healthy and thriving? No? Okay. It’s not resilient.
1% Local Food?: Unveiling Transition Buxton’s Economic Resilience Study
One local Councillor wants to use the report’s findings to help combat a new supermarket being proposed for the town.
Where Do the Transition Environmental Movement and The Social Justice Movement Intersect?
Resource depletion and climate change effects various demographic groups in vastly different ways.
How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition
It was in a small sideroom at the Resilience Hub in Portland, Maine, that I first heard the term ‘The Power to Convene’. It fascinated me, and finally gave me a name for this thing I’d been seeing for years.