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Filipa Pimentel on talking to students in Levallois, Paris

Our Transition team had been very busy running around in Paris for almost a week covering various official and fringe events of COP21. In spite of the constant running around, I accepted an invitation from Olivier, a member of the Transition Initiative Levallois en Transition (a neighborhood in the outskirts

Reflections on a week in Paris at COP21

Corinne reflects on COP21 in Paris.

We are at the end of the two weeks of the COP 21 Climate talks here in Paris. I never thought I would get so much out of this event. A year ago, I thought, “Oh, great, another set of Climate talks. It will probably be like Copenhagen, a lot

‘A Moveable Feast’: Chris Bird reflects on COP21

If Ernest Hemingway was still alive he might well have said: “If you are lucky enough to have been in Paris for the past two weeks and been part of the movement against climate change, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it will stay with you,

The Transition Story: reflections from Chile

Continuing our exploration of the Transition Story project, we asked different National Hubs for their reflections on the blog that opened our theme on the Transition Story. Today Silvana Bañados of the Transition Chile Hub shares her thoughts: “During our first Chile National Hub meeting, different answers were generated referring

Of climates past: 1963, the last time the River Thames froze

I don’t remember a winter as mild as the one the UK is currently experiencing. Today was only the second frost of the year and it’s the 9th of December. That comes, of course, in the context of what climatologists argue looks 97% likely to be the hottest

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Eight.

The Solutions COP21 event at Grand Palais that I had visited the previous day was, thanks to its paucity of actual solutions, potentially liable to being sued under the French version of the Trades Descriptions Act. Anyone wandering its halls would have been hard put to find much that actually