You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at...
Highlights from the keynote speech Majora Carter gave at the dinner of CEP’s 2013 National Conference, “Pursuing Results: Effective Foundation Practice.”
By Cat Johnson, Shareable I’m sitting in a cafe in downtown Oakland, just up the block from a HUB coworking space and a stone’s throw from a BART station. The wooden tables are full and sharing them is the...
If there was one picture that captured the times we are living through it is this. It appeared on the BBC website recently with the following caption: Kevin McGuire walks his dog past a vacant shop in Belcoo, Northern Ireland....
I spoke at the Hay Festival last week, a very well-attended and enjoyable session. Every day during the Festival, the Daily Telegraph produces ‘The Hayley Telegraph’, a free magazine given away at the Festival, which includes articles by, or...
This is the text of Wes Jackson’s Commencement Address at University of Kansas, from Sunday, May 19, 2013 Chancellor Gray-Little, faculty, fellow honorees, members of the board of regents. And now I come to the family members; sacrifices have...
This is the final part of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, “Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems“. This installment shows the big problem we have with...
The Sharing Solution and the Center for a New American Dream have launched a new 5-minute animation: Share Spray — A New Way To Do Everything. With creativity, charm, and a bit of fun, Share Spray explores how sharing could transform our lives and neighborhoods....
This video describes how housing might be owned in a more economically sustainable future, and explains how California’s Assembly Bill 1024 (Torres) can remove legal barriers to housing cooperatives in our communities. Learn more at http://www.theselc.org/AB1024. A video by...
On 27 February 2013 the University of Bonn invited Transition Bonn to take part in an event titled "The potential of the Transition Town movement to build a sustainable society." Among the speakers were Transition founder Rob Hopkins, filmmaker...