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Food in Community: keeping community groups fed in Totnes

In the market town of Totnes in Devon, a small group of volunteers are redistributing produce that would have otherwise gone to waste, with inspiring results (an article I wrote for the Live Better section on the Guardian’s website). It’s a Thursday afternoon and I’m in a

Living with Climate Change: Jonathan Smith on the Isles of Scilly

Through Transition I’ve been active in my community for years, trying to help people understand the importance of climate change and how it could impact on the lives of them and others in the future. I’ve seen all the hard data, digested all the scary graphs, seen all

Transition Trainings in Israel part 1

I am in Israel. A place where my knowledge of history and religious upbringing shape what I know about this place. Catholicism, the Bible, and our modern media have created a picture in my mind of what this place, Israel, the Holy Land is. And yet now that I am

Katherine Knox on what ‘climate injustice’ means for poorer communities

While the ecological and infrastructure impacts of climate change are becoming ever more self-evident, what about the social impacts? Do the impacts of climate change show that “we are all in this together”, or are its impacts unevenly felt across society? Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) recently published a report

Living with Climate Change: Sylvie Spraakman of Transition Kitchener-Waterloo

To situate this blog post, we’re in Kitchener-Waterloo, two cities that act as one, but can never quite become one because of decades or maybe even centuries of bickering. We are in southwestern Ontario, or west of Toronto for those who don’t really know Canadian geography. We

Living with Climate Change: Adrian Tait on the Somerset Levels

Transition Athelney links five villages on or bordering the Somerset Levels. At the February meeting of our organising group we were asking ourselves what contribution we could possibly make in response to the disruption and suffering caused by the prolonged flooding. An answer presented itself a few days later when

Prof. Myles Allen on climate change, flooding, and carbon capture as a ‘silver bullet’

Today we talk with Prof. Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford’s Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. He is a prominent and widely published climate scientist. He also wrote a recent article in the Mail on Sunday called Why I think we’