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How to discuss Transition with … No.5: Church groups

The challenge How might Transition initiatives most skilfully approach local church groups, and what common ground might they find upon which a good working relationship might be built? Key points * Identify the best people to talk to * Seek common ground around issues of peace and justice or ‘common good’ * Many

Rosie Boycott on Capital Growth and scaling up urban agriculture

Rosie Boycott is the Chair of the London Food Board, working for the Mayor, Boris Johnson. She was the force behind the Capital Growth initiative which has been a remarkable catalyst for urban agriculture across London. We wanted to hear her thoughts on what she has learnt about scaling up,

Film review: ‘Local Food Roots’

The growth of the local food sector over the last 20 years has been remarkable. As we, this month, reflect on how Transition might scale up, what lessons and insights can we draw from the local food movement? A new film Local Food Roots, by f3 local food consultants cooperative

Josué Dusoulier asks “why not use a regional support team as a strategy for scaling up?”

What Transition initiatives do is just fantastic. We see “little buds” of ways of living that are more resilient and happy arising everywhere. The question is: how do we go from “little buds”, that are indeed fantastic projects developing outside of the current system, to mature and extensive “forests”, formed

Les Robinson on Changeology, scaling up, and solutions that “stick”

One of the books I read recently which had useful insights to offer for our current discussions about scaling up was Les Robinson’s book Changeology, subtitled “how to enable groups, communities and societies to do things they’ve never done before”. Sounds like just the thing. It’s a

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