Last weekend’s dreadful events in Paris were appalling. Like many people I am still in shock and grief, and want to send huge love and support to everyone affected, especially our friends doing Transition across Paris. I hope they...
On Monday we launch our new book ’21 Stories of Transition’ and today we begin our build up to COP21 in Paris which starts at the end of the month. Often our default setting as people who are motivated...
Resilience Reflections is a series at Resilience.org which connects with contributors to the site to find out what it is that inspires their work, and what keeps them going. Read more Resilience Reflections here including Sandra Postel. Rob Hopkins...
This is a French translation of Post Carbon Institute’s report Climate After Growth. La croyance presque universelle de nos élus est qu’il faut s’occuper de la crise climatique en second lieu, après s’êtreassuré de la croissance économique. C’est faire fausse route – à...
Bill McKibben Chris Martenson Paul Gilding Richard Heinberg Rob Hopkins
A worldwide movement is emerging at the nexus of science, inspiration, and sustainability. Beliefs are secondary. What unites us is a pool of shared values and commitments—and the vision of a just and healthy future for humanity and the...
Post Carbon Fellow and Transition Network found Rob Hopkins was featured in the Montreal Gazette. From the article: He likens the Transition model to an app, insofar as it’s a design-based technology to get something done: in this case,...
Last year when I visited the US, Peter Lipman (Chair of Transition Network) and myself had supper with representatives from 3 large philanthropic organisations there. At one point, Peter asked “so do you invest in coal?” There was some...
Criticising Transition for being explicitly apolitical, and for not engaging in the political system in the conventional way feels, to me, like criticising a spoon for not being very good at cutting bread. Transition is a tool designed for...
Our theme for May is ‘Transition and Health’. This month we’ll be looking at how public health professionals are already responding to challenges of climate change and resource depletion and at how a more Transition-inspired approach might help to deepen...
We last spoke to Michael Shuman just over three years ago. He is author of several books on local economic development, the most recent being Local Dollars, Local Sense. He is an attorney, an economist, and his current job...