Yarrow tea with Rosie
Activism and creativity lie the heart of Transition Initiatives. Most function as inspiration within traditional communities, but some of them also pioneer another way of being.
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Agency on Demand? Holmgren, Hopkins, and the Historical Problem of Agency
All these questions are questions of agency: to what extent, if any, can humans be purposeful agents of historical change. This question, I will suggest, has up to now been given something like a free pass in much post-carbon discourse, for reasons that I will explain in depth later.
Charting Collapseniks
A ferment in the environmental movement, brewing for many years, has now bubbled up into the blogosphere. We are dipping our ladle in here to take a little taste of it, even though we are quite certain it is not done fermenting.
Economic Descent, hopefully with Skillful Means
In case I don’t use sufficiently ‘skillful means,’ please let me begin with stating: I am not advocating for intentionally creating an economic crash.
The 5 factors that will enable Transition to scale up
Our theme for January is ‘Scaling Up’. There is no route map to a powered-down, resilient future. No-one has done this before.
Scenari Dopo La Crescita
This is an Italian translation of the joint Post Carbon Institute/Transition Network report Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience.
Richard Heinberg: Puerto Rico in a world in transition
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
Reflections on a Transition Tour
Signs that Transition 3.0 is beginning to take hold were all around me during my time in Northern California, probably the biggest hot-spot for Transition in North America.
Powerdown: Let’s talk about it
Climate change is advancing at an incredible speed. We know we should do something, but we lack the political will to do what it takes to hold it to 2°C.
How I Became an Ex-Liberal
The issue of our collective state of denial had been bothering me for a year or two by the time Michael Moore showed up in Madison.
OI! You! Me ole fruit (‘n veg) or, Redbridge reborn
In the outer London Borough of Redbridge lives a person who has made it her mission to administer a life-enhancing injection of sustainable living to this complex social chequerboard of a borough, deeply divided by class, creed and ethnic origins.
To boldly train where no trainer has trained before: Taking Transition far and wide
May East is the Transition trainer who reaches the parts that other trainers don’t reach, geographically speaking at least. She has pioneered Transition with rubber-tapping communities