Reflections from the SHARE Conference
SHARE, which took place in San Francisco was dedicated to exploring the sharing economy, and highlighted both the innovation and challenges within this field.
Transition movement
What would a Transition hospital look like?
In many communities, the hospital is one of the largest employers, the largest procurer of food and energy, and a key focal point for many people in the community. What would a Transition hospital look like?
‘The Impact of Transition. In numbers’ – a note of caution
Transition is a wonderful melange of conversations, projects, interactions, inspirations, hard work, failures, successes and entirely unexpected events which we are altogether unsure what to make of!
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.
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.
Resilience, impact, and learning
Resilience is about the capacity of a system to be able to respond to change.
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.
The impact we’re having: Nicola Vernon of Transition Town Greyton
Our mantra is ‘Hands-on, heart engaged’. Whatever we do, it’s interactive or it just doesn’t take.
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.
Business as usual is planetary suicide. Time to slay Zombie Big Oil
It’s now increasingly recognised that the transition into the post-carbon era must involve not simply "adaptation" and "mitigation" but entail radical transformation of our societies at multiple levels.
On Transition’s impact and reimagining the road to Paris 2015
What is the impact we hoped Transition would have when we first came up with the idea, what impact are we actually having, and what could we be doing differently to increase that impact?
Essential Knowledge for Transition: Money and Banking System
The second in a 3-part series of teleseminars on economic transformation. Only a fundamental shift in the design of the monetary and banking systems will allow for a viable way of addressing increasing inequality, the mounting problem of public and private debt and make possible a shift towards a sustainable steady-state economy that works for everybody and is compatible with environmental stewardship.