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Podcast: “I’m welling up just talking about it”: the marvel of Totnes LEF6

This year’s Totnes Local Entrepreneur Forum was the sixth. This remarkable event, put on by the Totnes REconomy Project, is one of the highlights of my year. It was also timed to coincide with Global Divestment Week, organised by 350.org, in part to explore the question of “once

Postcard from Transition Bondi Beach, Australia

Recently Naresh Giangrande, Transition Network Training Co-ordinator, and Sophy Banks, formerly of TN, had an opportunity to visit Bondi Transition Initiative. Below is a blog from Transition Bondi about the evening, and following, a lovely exchange of emails between Sophy and some of the team. We thought it was

“You only get so many Mays in your life”: why our imagination needs the dawn chorus.

Rob Hopkins gets up at the crack of dawn to hear the dawn chorus, and reflects here on why it matters for our imagination, our curiosity, our empathy. [Originally published at robhopkins.net]. It’s still dark on the early May morning when we gather. It’s quiet, apart from

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Christopher Lyon

1. Brief Introduction of your Work My work explores the social dimensions of resilience, adaptation and transformation. To date I have mostly focused on community resilience and the cultural and other processes that communities use to navigate challenge and change. I’m very interested in how people and groups understand

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Juan del Río

Could you give us a brief introduction to your work? Since 2008 I have been working to develop community projects around sustainable living, local resilience and systems change. I have worked in several countries and with different organisations as a trainer, facilitator, designer, writer and researcher. Since 2012 I have

Podcast: How ‘Grown in Totnes’ are reimagining the local food economy

Rob Hopkins reflects on what it looks like when the economy begins to turn in favour of the local. .

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Portobello – Justin Kenrick

Justin, could you give us a brief introduction to your work: I am an activist anthropologist working for forest peoples’ land rights in Africa (mostly in Kenya and DRC) in my work for the Forest Peoples Programme. I also work for community resilience in Scotland. My work in Africa is