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Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Portobello – Justin Kenrick

Justin, could you give us a brief introduction to your work: I am an activist anthropologist working for forest peoples’ land rights in Africa (mostly in Kenya and DRC) in my work for the Forest Peoples Programme. I also work for community resilience in Scotland. My work in Africa is

Meet the Transition Pinball Wizards!

Roxane Rihoux, Mathilde Schmit, Roxane Jossa and Juliette Raskin (see photo below) are studying ‘Animation socio-culturelle et éducation permanente’ (Socio-cultural animation and life-long learning) at IHECS in Brussels. Their course is very practical, learning a wide range of communications skills including film making and graphics. For their

‘Tomorrow’ reaches the US!

On Sunday April 16th Cyril Dion, the inspired filmmaker of Tomorrow joined us at our local theater in Sebastopol, California. It was Easter evening and still we had an impassioned turnout (about 130 people) who came out to see Tomorrow then stayed for a very engaging Q&A with

Essential Guide to Doing Transition now published in Russian

We are thrilled to announce that our wonderful ‘The Essential Guide to Doing Transition‘, already available in English, Spanish and French, is now available in Russian! Our thanks to Victor Postnikov for his work on this. You can download it here. More languages to follow…

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Peterborough

To mark the release of ‘Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation’, the new book edited by Thomas Henfrey and Gil Penha-Lopes, we hear from some of the book’s contributors. For the first one, Andrea Connell, Cheryl Lyon and Dave Sumner of Transition Town Peterborough in Canada discuss their

Book Review: ‘Reclaiming Conversation: the power of talk in a digital age’ by Sherry Turkle.

This is one of the best books I have read in a very long time. Essential reading for any parent, for anyone who interacts with digital technologies, social media, smartphones, indeed for anyone living in the complex world of 2017. It’s a book that had a deep impact on

Lush Spring Prize showcases great regeneration projects

The Lush Spring Prize has just announced the 52 regenerative projects, organisations and networks from 27 countries that have been shortlisted for the inaugural Lush Spring Prize 2017. It’s exciting for us to see there are 3 in there that have emerged directly, or indirectly, from Transition initiatives. The