One of the most fascinating recent studies into the impact of Transition was Local Communities Leading the Way to a Low Carbon Society, a report published by AEIDL (Association Européenne pour l’Information sur le Développement Local. It looks at Transition,...
It is a rare occurence that I disagree with David Holmgren. One of my heroes, and the co-founder of permaculture, I generally find his intellect formidable, his insights on permaculture revelatory, and his take on the wider patterns and...
When I was in the US in October I met Doria Robinson, Executive Director of Urban Tilth. Urban Tilth is a non-profit urban agriculture organisation in Richmond, California, in the northern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. I was blown...
While running the risk of sounding like a Hello! Magazine reporter, I must introduce this post by saying that while in the US recently, I joined Richard Heinberg and his wife Janet in their beautiful permaculture garden in Santa...
One of the most inspiring Transition initiatives I visited in the US recently was Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition in Boston. With our theme for this month focusing on austerity, JPNET (as they are known to their friends) have...
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins spoke about what communities can do to meet the challenges we face by “making the politically impossible politically inevitable”. This talk was given at Tufts University. Rob was one of 3 speakers. Rob’s talk...
Post Carbon Fellow and Transition Network founder Rob Hopkins tells the story of how Transition works.
Post Carbon Fellow and Transition Network founder Rob Hopkins was interviewed by Tara Lohan at Alternet while on his US tour. From the article: TL: So what are the tools that communities need to be resilient? RH: Communities need...
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins was interviewed by the Ecologist on the Transition experiment. From the article: So what is Transition precisely? Hopkins says honestly: “Well, it’s something different most days I’m asked,” but after more thought he describes...
This provocative paper makes a convincing case for why the environmental community must embrace post-growth economics and community resilience in their efforts to address the climate crisis.