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1% local food?: Unveiling Transition Buxton’s Economic Resilience Study

January 14th saw the launch of a new Economic Resilience Study (following in the footprints of the Blueprints/Evaluations undertaken so far by various communities), this time produced by Transition Buxton in Derbyshire. The report, which included a Foreword by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby, was unveiled at

Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon

Christophe McGlade is a research associate in energy materials modelling at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. He recently co-authored, with Paul Ekins, a paper called “The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2°C”, a paper whose stark call to leave the substantial majority

Book review: “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. Really?

I first heard about Alex Epstein’s book ‘The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’ via an unsurprisingly fawning review over at the SkeptEco blog. Its premise is so ludicrous that normally I wouldn’t read it, never mind review it. There is no “moral case for fossil fuels”, just as

How Transition Town Tooting convene through celebration and imagination

The words of the ‘Sankofa’ bird were written during one of many dancing, singing, making and music workshops that took place in the lead up to the Trashcatchers’ Carnival in July 2010. On Fishponds I will find my flock And fly in formation and Nest on our Rock’ Sankofa is

The Transition Agony Aunt on how to talk about peak oil

How we got started: Transition Black Isle

The story of how Transition Black Isle got started is told by two founder members, John Wood and Wendy Price, Ann Thomas and Maggie Price. Our thanks to all of them for making the time to sit down and think back to those founding days. “Hope it’s of some

“The Fierce Urgency of Now”: 3 days in Belgium

Something very powerful feels to me like it is starting to move. I see it in the victory of Syriza in Greece on a platform of localisation, resilience building and sustainability as an antidote to austerity. I see it in the explosion of craft breweries, farmers markets, community energy companies