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One Year in Transition: becoming an international community of practice

One Year in Transition (1YT) has been running in the UK for four years now. When we launched in September of 2012 we had a pretty clear idea that there was a large gap in education. A gap between the desire of students to use their course learning to bring

Activity of the fortnight: Being part of the Transition Movement

Being part of the Transition Movement. Format: Checklist / activity People: All of your group (at least one person who can use the internet) Time: 30 minutes Resources needed: A computer with internet access, a place to meet Why do it “I can’t change the world on my own, I

REconomy On The Road From Wigan Pier

On a wet and windy day in early-February, the energetic Billinge and Orrell in Transition Group invited over 100 community leaders, members and to take part in the first REconomy North West event. Close to the site of George Orwell’s bleak social investigation The Road to Wigan Pier,

Bob Hudson on Devolution: “there are some very worrying questions being raised by all of this”

The word ‘devolution’ figures large in the UK at the moment. You’d think the idea of devolving power closer to the local level would be very akin to what Transition is working to achieve, but as Kerry-Anne Mendoza puts it, in reality it represents “the greatest shift of

New film: ‘8 days @ COP21’

We are delighted to present our new film, ‘8 days @ COP21’. It captures those days last December when the climate negotiations took place in Paris, and the experiences of some of the Transitioners who were there. Thanks to our wonderful team of crack Transition volunteer translators in Paris, we are

Transition Galway’s ‘2030 Vision’ report: “there’s no limit to what we could do”

Transition Galway in Ireland just published ‘A Vision for Galway 2030’, their Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP). It’s a fascinating piece of work, and so we caught up with Bernard McGlinchy (BM), Mary Greene (MG) and Caoimhín Ó Maolallaigh (COM) to find out more about it. There had been

On having a great vision, and not ‘blowing an uncertain trumpet’.

My friend Lucy Neal sent me a photo of me the other day, taken at the Transition Network conference in 2012 at Battersea Arts Centre. On the final day of the event, we did a remarkable exercise, the Transition Town Anywhere High Street, designed and facilitated by Ruth Ben-Tovim