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The Impact We’re Having: Aveiro em Transição in Portugal

Aveiro em Transição is a Transition initiative in Portugal. When they heard we were looking for tales of the impact Transition initiatives see their work having, they sat a group of people down who are active in the initiative and asked them the question. Here’s what they had to

Visiting Israel and the West Bank– the Vision and Reality

On 3rd April Naresh and I ran the first Transition: Launch training inHaifa. Around fifty people attended; a mix of activists from environmental, social and community projects. We mapped out our geographical spread, ranging from the north to south of this small country –and included someone from North Carolina,USA.

The Impact We’re Having: Zsanett and Zoltán of Transition Hosszúhetény

Hosszúhetény is the most populous village in Baranya county, in the south of Hungary, with 3400 inhabitants. It’s situated in beautiful natural surroundings at the foot of the Zengő peak of the Mecsek hills. People who live here are traditionally very proud of their natural environment, one famous example

Eamon O’Hara on the “important catalytic effect” of community-led action

One of the most fascinating recent studies into the impact of Transition was Local Communities Leading the Way to a Low Carbon Society, a report published by AEIDL (Association Européenne pour l’Information sur le Développement Local. It looks at Transition, permaculture and ecovillage networks, what it calls the “Silent

Heartbleed security issue

Earlier this week, a flaw in software that is used to secure Web communications across approximately 66% of the internet was disclosed. That’s a lot of the internet. The ‘Heartbleed’ bug introduced a security vulnerability (http://heartbleed.com) in the widely used OpenSSL cryptographic library. We use this security.

Why I despise self checkouts with a rare and unbridled passion

It’s time for a rant about SACAT. “About what?” you might most reasonably cry. ‘Semi Attended Customer Activated Terminals’, that’s what. In plain English, it’s those self checkout things that are taking over shops up and down the land. In 2008 there were 92,600 such units

Jo Hamilton on why monitoring and evaluation matters for Transition

What role does measuring and evaluating your impacts have to play for Transition initiatives? How important is it, and how straightforward is it in a group that is already busy “doing stuff”? Jo Hamilton is a researcher at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute whose research focuses on those very