Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition: Food, livelihoods and bridging race & class divides
Economic resilience is multivalent, and JP is full of people with great ideas for building it.
building resilient communities
The struggle to defend La Famantina is forever: how social movements in Argentina are close to changing history
La Rioja, Cordoba and other movements in Argentina are showing, not only how to defend what they have, but also how to transform it together in order to create new ‘commons’ – new spaces that are held and used collectively.
Researching Transition
One of the most in-depth pieces of research on Transition published recently was Failure and Success of Transition initiatives: a study of the international replication of the Transition movement by Giuseppe Feola and Richard Nunes at the University of Reading.
Sophy Banks on the impact of Transition Training in Israel and the West Bank
I felt connected to the resilience of the healthy part of us as humans, the part that longs to heal the past and create peace in the present – which is as strong among Israeli activists as it is in this country.
Michael Shuman: “I would say that we are winning”
I mostly follow evidence inside the United States and from that I would say that we are winning. There’s just been study after study that’s come out showing that localisation is good for job growth and good for per capita income growth, good for reducing poverty and good for environmental restoration, good for resilience.
Postcard from MedellĂn: A Big WUF for Urban Equity
…if we invest in the most marginalized communities within our cities that are trapped behind invisible social and economic borders, everyone, including the planet, benefits.
Creating A Durable Local Economy: Lessons from the Burlington, VT model
An interview with local activist Bruce Seifer who co-authored the book Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy.
The Catalytic Effect of Community-led Action
Transition groups and other local community-led initiatives play a key role in engaging with and mobilizing local communities.
Five pathways to post-capitalist ‘renaissance’ by a former oil man
In my first post on Leggett’s new book, I focused on his analysis of our "risk blindness." But despite his trenchant and uncompromising stance on the potentially catastrophic consequences of business as usual, Leggett is no doomer.
Reachable Moments: Transition-Interfaith Dialogue
The hundreds of millions of Americans affiliated with organized religion, 40 % of whom self-identify as "conservative," will be as affected as anyone else by accelerated climate change.
After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi’s Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision
“The most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time, and I think that’s what we are,” Mayor Lumumba told me this February in Jackson.
Foreward from Notes to Nowhere
The illusion that progress will solve the problems of the future is presented to obscure the ancient truth that future-problems are created by the present.