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Today we have a guest post from Luis, an active member of a Transition Initiative in Portalegre em Transição in Portugal.    “We are in a semi-rural area, with a quite old population. There are still a lot of people we know who lived all their lives in direct contact

I live in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.  From 2006, there was an organisation called Marlborough Climate Pledge, which worked to raise people’s awareness around the issues of peak oil and climate change.  In 2011, at a Green Drinks, there was a visiting speaker from Romsey, Hampshire, talking about how they

In the market town of Totnes in Devon, a small group of volunteers are redistributing produce that would have otherwise gone to waste, with inspiring results (an article I wrote for the Live Better section on the Guardian’s website).    It’s a Thursday afternoon and I’m in a

Through Transition I’ve been active in my community for years, trying to help people understand the importance of climate change and how it could impact on the lives of them and others in the future. I’ve seen all the hard data, digested all the scary graphs, seen all

I am in Israel. A place where my knowledge of history and religious upbringing shape what I know about this place. Catholicism, the Bible, and our modern media have created a picture in my mind of what this place, Israel, the Holy Land is. And yet now that I am

While the ecological and infrastructure impacts of climate change are becoming ever more self-evident, what about the social impacts?  Do the impacts of climate change show that “we are all in this together”, or are its impacts unevenly felt across society?  Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) recently published a report

To situate this blog post, we’re in Kitchener-Waterloo, two cities that act as one, but can never quite become one because of decades or maybe even centuries of bickering. We are in southwestern Ontario, or west of Toronto for those who don’t really know Canadian geography. We