November 2025: Community Waves
In this issue: Community Waves; the Living Systems Alliance; Tech, Spirit and Earth panel; Life-Affirming Economics in Brazil; Imagining the Possible in a World Unraveling and more!
Dear friends,
In a world often flooded with bad news, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Remember, you are not alone. Even the smallest action creates a ripple of impact.
That’s why we’re excited to publicly launch Community Waves, our open-source social media platform. Built as a direct response to intrusive ads, algorithms, and big tech companies undermining our digital well-being, it’s a dedicated space for our community to connect, organise, and learn.
Yes, that’s what we previously referred to as ‘the Transition platform’ and, after some improvements, we’re now opening it to all transitioners and changemakers who want to explore and benefit from it!
Ready to expand your ripple effect? Join communitywaves.space!
With love,
The Transition Network international team 🌱
What's buzzing at TNi?
- A living alliance is growing! The Living Systems Alliance is here - a new collaboration between Transition Network international, The Biomimicry Institute, the Global Ecovillage Network, Kincentric Leadership, and the Permaculture Association - piloting new ways for place-based communities to design and decide in partnership with Nature.
Deborah Benham
- The Tech in Transition Series is coming to an end. Join the Tech, Spirit and Earth conversation happening on November 12, 2025. Find all the previous webinar recordings here.
Dennise Dueñas Riveros
- SAVE THE DATE: Friday, 17 April 2026, for the Day of Transition Practise 2026! We are currently preparing the programme and will share it in the coming month's newsletter. Stay tuned for some really inspiring sessions. If you’d like to receive updates directly about DoTP and other invitations from Practising Transition, you can join the Practising Transition newsletter here.
- Join Community Waves! The open source social media space crafted with love and ethics for people involved in community-led change.
Heartbeat of the Movement
- [PT] Transition Brazil: During November, we will have a Journey of events in Rio and São Paulo, about the Life-affirming Economics, with the presence of our dear partner Jay Tompt from Transition Totnes, Schumacher College and REconomy movement. We are firming partnership with Universities, collaborative spaces and local networks for new economics. Stay tuned for the journey!
- [EN] Beyond the Brink: Imagining the Possible in a World Unraveling, online event, 13 November, with Rob Hopkins and Jacqueline Patterson.
- [FR] Via Réseau Transition.be: From November 10 to 16, discover how solidarity finance works and what its beneficial effects are for society and the planet with Financité.
- Congratulations! The University of St Andrews won a prestigious EUAC Green Gown award in Birmingham last night in the Nature Positive category for their St Andrews Nature Networks project. The award recognises the collaborative efforts of landowners, volunteers and organisations, like Transition, working to support biodiversity in and around St Andrews. Well done all!
What's alive in your Transition group? We'd love to hear and spread it further. Email us at comms@transitionnetwork.org
Resources
Here are some practical ‘how-to guides’ to help you with REconomy work. They focus on running events, starting an enterprise and resourcing your activities.
- Full guide made by Transition Brasil (in Portuguese and English):
https://reconomybrasil.eco.br/reconomycanvas/ - How To Guides created by REconomy UK:
Events Toolkit for Transition Initiatives
Transition Enterprise Handbook
Transition Core Resourcing
How to do a Local Economic Blueprint
Five Steps to REconomy
Calendar
Check out the calendar and add your Transition events here. They'll be featured in the community space, as well as the upcoming e-news. Make sure to set them up as "Public". How-to instructions here (see "Route 1").
Opportunities
- Join the World Food Forum Youth Policy Board: Have you been interested in ensuring that youth perspectives are impacting food system solutions worldwide? The Youth Policy Board (YPB) is a youth-led governance body that guides the WFF's Youth Assembly, amplifying young voices in shaping global agrifood systems and policy advocacy. You can submit your application by 23 November 2025 23:59 CET.
- Project Drawdown is hiring for three roles: one on their science team, conducting cutting-edge climate solutions research, and two on their strategic partnerships team, building the partnerships that put those solutions into action.
- Apply for the MAPFRE Social Innovation Awards. If your initiative provides innovative solutions in well-being, social inclusion, or demographic transformation in Latin America, United States and Europe, you have the chance of winning €10,000-100,000. Deadline is December 15, 2025. Details here.
- The Impact Collaborative: A new nonprofit alliance model shows how previously siloed organizations can collaborate to scale services while retaining autonomy.
Which other opportunities would you like to share with fellow Transitioners?
Stay connected!
Would you like to have some of your content featured in the next newsletter editions? Please write to comms@transitionnetwork.org
For the December e-news, the deadline for submissions is November 30, 2025.
Let's keep the conversation alive on the Community Waves space and win a book by Jay Vidyarthi!
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Thank you so much for making it until the end of this edition of the Newsletter. We're looking forward to hearing from you all, amazing people. Stay tuned and hands-on!
