Why Resistance Matters: Resistance & Regeneration
The growing movement for regeneration offers a much needed reframe of how to fully show up in our humanity at this critical moment in our planet’s history.
building resilient communities
Building Community Action Through Climate Hubs
Community-led climate hubs are springing up across the UK. They’re a response to inaction by global governments on the climate crisis, and the realisation that to avoid the worst we need to take action ourselves, while constantly pressing governments for ambitious policy matching the scale of the challenge.
Our Politicians in Washington Are Behaving Like Kindergarteners on A Playground!!
We need to intentionally create a more mature and evolved collective human consciousness. And we are rapidly running out of time to do that essential work.
Democracy Rising 13: Getting Started with Dialogue and Deliberation, Part 2
The first step in deciding where and how to start with deliberative dialogue is to ask, what is your environment and how are you placed and rooted in it?
Developing an immune system for the Transition movement
What changes to ourselves, our groups and wider society would help us to build new systems? Systems that can deliver fundamentally different outcomes to the one that has given us climate change and the many other environmental and social issues that we are struggling with globally.
Putin and the Power of Collective Action from Shared Awareness — Part 2: The Social Grammar of Creation
The future on this planet depends on each one of us — alone and together — and our capacity to realign attention and intention on the level of the whole.
Stories from the movement: Transition Toronto
The principle in Transition of focusing your energy on what you are passionate about is beautifully captured in the work of Transition Toronto in Canada.
Discovering the Ecobarrios of Latin America
The book Ecobarrios en América Latina: Alternativas comunitarias para la transición hacia la sustentabilidad urbana (Ecobarrios in Latin America: Community Alternatives for the Transition to Urban Sustainability) is an exploration of the committed and valuable work of a movement of people throughout the continent.
Building Your Engagement Ladder: Five Practices to Start Advocating for Resilience
Starting with our own homes, then moving into our neighborhoods and cities, the challenge is to figure out what resilience looks like and to identify meaningful action in that direction.
The Significance of Emancipated Neighborhoods for the Project of Direct Democracy
When the inhabitants of a certain neighborhood or complex of buildings manage to institute a radically different mode of collective co-existance, then the self-managed units, of which Castoriadis speaks, begin to emerge.
Democracy Rising 11: Doorways into Deliberation
Deliberation is key to public engagement work as well, enabling people to discuss the consequences, costs, and trade-offs of various policy options, and to work through the emotions that tough public decisions raise.
New municipalists in the UK must judge this moment correctly and calibrate accordingly
From Preston and Barcelona, to Naples and Jackson, USA, the last decade has seen towns and cities undergo a reimagining of how we can make them, and their economies, work for local people and communities.