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A brief natural history of the Transitioner

Because they knock on doors. Because they always want to discuss something. They stick up posters. Strike up conversations. Ask questions. Make notes. Gather together with their kind. They are always eating heartily with one another. They have felt tip pens for flipcharts in their bags. They are always organising

Municipalities Project invite you to harvest

Ana Huertas, Project Coordinator of the Municipalities Project, invites Transition Initiatives to harvest their experience and examples of successful collaborations with their local Municipality. Dear Transitioners, I am writing on behalf of the Municipalities in Transition Core Circle to invite you to participate in the first stage of our mapping

Inspirational Wise Woman Interviews

In this second post in our Guest Editor series, Steph Blom interviews Odete, an inspiration to Steph at an important moment in the journey of this project. I interviewed Odete, the grandmother of my friend Catarina. Odete was born in Angola, and later on moved to Lisbon, where she still

Connecting with our Inner Wise Woman

The meetings and conversations I had in Buenos Aires made me realize these connections we experience with others; are in a way a reflection of the connection we have with ourselves. The one type of connection seems to feed the other, and vice versa. Inspired in part from “The Artist’

Experimental Community Organising – Transition Hungary

Everyone’s story contributes to our favourite tale: a Hungarian chapter within that much-needed narrative, where we are little by little creating so much momentum, the “Great Turning” is inevitable. Where do we put our energy? Into being and creating the change we want to see happen. Cliché, yes,

Meet your 2017 Guest Editors!

Hello from the Comms Team at Transition Network. You all know by now that Rob is away on sabbatical writing a new book about Imagination. We felt it was the perfect time to build on our community of ideas from both inside and outside the network- of topics, happenings, and

This beer kills pipelines

The TransCanada pipeline (called Energy East) is intended to transport oil from the tar sands in Alberta to St. John in New Brunswick, a route of 6,400km across Canada. Once built, 1.1 million barrels of oil are intended to flow through it every day. Every day. In the