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How effective is your Transition group? Let us help you find out.

A guest post from Naresh Giangrande on an exciting new research opportunity: I recently had an email exchange with Katherine from Transition Montmorency, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. She wants to be part of the ‘Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainable Communities’ (MESC) project we are running. I asked her what

How to discuss Transition with … No.4: Local government

The challenge One of the keys to scaling up Transition will be a healthy and mutually beneficial relationship with the local authority. How best to nurture, build and sustain such a relationship? Key points * Recognise that officers in local authorities are usually people like us trying to do good things

6 reasons why there’s no community in fracking

This month we’ve been looking at the potential of scaling up Transition, what the obstacles to doing that might be, and a range of perspectives on what’s needed to enable that to happen. Right in the middle of that, David Cameron announced last week that the UK is

How to discuss Transition with … No.3: Young People

The challenge How might Transition be made more interesting, relevant and fun for younger people? What are the aspects of Transition that will appeal and what is the most skilful way to communicate it? Key points * Make it part of you, it’s really important to model the change in

The January 2014 Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition

Due to Christmas, things have been a bit quiet on the Transition front, so this is a smaller round up than usual. We’ll start in Gloucestershire in England with a new video about the work of Transition Stroud. Transition Stroud have many themes of their work running, events coming

Can earth building scale up to the mainstream? 2: Kevin McCabe’s cob citadel

As part of our month’s exploration of the theme of ‘scaling up’, I recently visited Ottery St. Mary in East Devon to see Kevin McCabe, his wife Rose, and the extraordinary new cob house he has spent the last 3 years building. In the recent edition of Grand Designs

Can earth building scale up to the mainstream? 1: ClayWorks and clay plasters

Academic Gill Seyfang wrote in 2009 in a piece about natural building that such materials and techniques will only make the step across into the mainstream if they succeed in “scaling up the existing small-scale, one-off housing projects to industrial mass production”. Over the next 2 days we’