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Here’s something we’d love your help with.  How can we capture the impact of Transition in numbers?  We’ve done our best with what we can find, and we’d love to know what you would add from your local initiative. Any numbers you can put to your

At this year’s Political Studies Association International Conference in Manchester, Andrea Felicetti of the University of Canberra presented a paper called Radicals without rebellion? A Case Study on four Transition experiments. In it he explored “whether and how social movements can promote radical positions whilst refraining from adopting an

Aveiro em Transição is a Transition initiative in Portugal.  When they heard we were looking for tales of the impact Transition initiatives see their work having, they sat a group of people down who are active in the initiative and asked them the question.  Here’s what they had to

On 3rd April Naresh and I ran the first Transition: Launch training inHaifa. Around fifty people attended; a mix of activists from environmental, social and community projects. We mapped out our geographical spread, ranging from the north to south of this small country –and included someone from North Carolina,USA.

Hosszúhetény is the most populous village in Baranya county, in the south of Hungary, with 3400 inhabitants. It’s situated in beautiful natural surroundings at the foot of the Zengő peak of the Mecsek hills. People who live here are traditionally very proud of their natural environment, one famous example

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, permaculture and ecovillage networks, what it calls the “Silent

Earlier this week, a flaw in software that is used to secure Web communications across approximately 66% of the internet was disclosed. That’s a lot of the internet. The ‘Heartbleed’ bug introduced a security vulnerability (http://heartbleed.com) in the widely used OpenSSL cryptographic library. We use this security.