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Transition as Social Medicine?: health leaders discuss

One of the following quotes comes from the Transition movement. The other 3 come from public health professionals. Can you tell which is which? A: “A sustainable system protects and improves health within environmental and social resources now and for future generations. This means reducing carbon emissions, minimising waste and

How public health + grassroots creativity = innovation

Mark Dooris is Professor of Health and Sustainability at the University of Central Lancashire. A lot of his work is about managing the delivery of programmes related to public health, wellbeing and sustainability. We started by asking him “would it be fair to describe you as somebody who is trying

Inner Transition for everyone.. who wants it

What helps Inner Transition to be accessible to as many people as possible? This was the question of a recent International Inner Transition conversation, with some great ideas from people in places as diverse as Brazil, Europe, Canada and Australia. There was general agreement that many people who might benefit

Meet the man bringing Transition to the NHS

David Pencheon is a public health doctor and Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit. His interest is, as he puts it, in “promoting health in the best sense of that phrase, rather than just as a large illness treating machine”. He is one of the people behind the NHS

Can we assess Transition’s health impacts?

Is Transition good for a community’s health? Janet Richardson is Professor of Health Services Research at Plymouth University in the School of Health and Human Sciences and is the first person to do a Health Impact Assessment of a Transition initiative. In 2011 she did a “rapid” Assessment for

EcoBricks and Education

Here is the latest blog I have written for The Guardian’s Live Better Challenge section: EcoBricks and education: how plastic bottle rubbish is helping build schools It began in Guatemala, and now a South African town is using recycling bottles as building material as part of an inspirational and

Sophy Banks on Bringing Systems Back to Health

“What is the change we want to see in the world, and how will that change happen?” These were the two rather intimidating questions we posed ourselves at the recent Transition Network Awaydays – our twice-yearly retreat for staff and board members. This post shares one piece of the our wide