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Drew Dellinger: “If we had more imagination, we could have less capitalism”

This is one in a series of blogs exploring imagination that you will find at Rob Hopkins’ website. Listening to Drew Dellinger‘s poetry regularly gives me goosebumps. Very shortly it will give you goosebumps too. He is a US-based writer, poet, speaker and teacher whose passions revolve around ecology,

News from the world of Transitionese

News from the world of Transitionese A kit of resources is being released to support the international growth of the movement. This includes material for translators (a glossary, brief style guide, and video); for authors writing for Transition (a style guide with tips and hints about writing for an international

Sustainable St Albans Week – a model for engaging the local community towards change

“Creates good opportunities to discuss Sustainability with friends and colleagues as they become more aware of the issues’’ Feedback form We endlessly promoted the programme online and distributed thousands of brochures through the organisers and at market stalls. The Herts Advertiser, our media partner, gave us excellent coverage, as did

Falcon in the Storm #2: The Creep of Solar

In our second guest post from Gergő Benedek, he explores a city community trying to invest in renewables. Wekerle is a unique neighbourhood, situated where the outskirts meet the edge of the Budapest , Hungary. The square-shaped residential area is a protected heritage site, an unlikely ‘garden city’ experiment, built at

The right structures have power – Simon Mitambo on reviving cultural and biological diversity

You are the coordinator of the Africa Biodiversity Network (ABN), you run the Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation (SALT), you participated in the inaugural Earth Jurisprudence programme, and you just founded a school in your home village. This is quite a lot, what links these 4 things you are

Going farther together – the Lake Victoria Peace and Sustainability Centre, Rusinga Island

Why a network and not a group, I asked Solomon Owiti, founder of LVPSC. He asked himself, “How can I reach more people?” and realised that rather than starting an organisation himself, forming a network to bring all the organisations working on Rusinga Island together under a banner of peace,

“Always the same, always different”: a response to Ted Trainer

The late John Peel once said of The Fall that they were “always the same, always different”. The same could be said of Ted Trainer’s critiques of Transition. He just published another one, many of the points in which he has made before, and I have already responded to