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Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’: A Review

The release of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film ‘Before the Flood’, near the end of a US election in which climate change has gone all but unmentioned, is to be celebrated. As is the fact that it has been made available free online, and within the first 2 days of

Breathing new life into old computers

By Bart Anderson of Transition Palo Alto: I have Eitan Fenson of Transition Palo Alto to blame for the piles of old laptops littering our living room. He’s the one who started me on a voyage of discovery about how to reduce the environmental impact of computers. And how

Are smoking cannabis and saving the planet mutually exclusive?

This blog has a deliberately provocative title, because I think this is something we really need to talk about. It is a question that has been in my mind after my recent trip to the ‘Education for Life’ conference in Mallorca. Psychiatrist Jose M. Fabregas gave an excellent talk which

Transition in Action 2 – Living the Life, Walking the Walk in the Transition Age

Transition in Action 2 was a success: young people from five EU countries came to an eco farm in Kunszállás, Southern Hungary, where they made their mark on the homestead, the surrounding town, and maybe most importantly: on themselves. We asked an organiser, Tracey Wheatley from Transition Hungary, how it

Amatrice Regeneration – rebuilding resilience after the Central Italy earthquake

By Deborah Rim Moiso: My story with Transition seems to be fraught with disaster. The first event I ever took part in, in 2009, was a workshop training on Open Space Technology organised by Transition Italia, the Italian hub of Transition Network, together with the facilitation school Genius Loci. This

Can Funders do Systems change? Learning From Supporting the New Economy

By Fiona Ward: Clearly funders are an essential part of the work to bring about deep-rooted systemic change, and they wield great influence. Is this power wielded well today? On behalf of a small international foundation, we recently spoke to 25 organisations and individuals who are actively trying to