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This month our theme is “living with climate change”.  We’ll be exploring that from a variety of angles, speaking to climate scientists, hearing contrasting opinions as to what it could mean in practice, looking at the inner impacts it has on us.  We’ll hear from Transition folks around

No water.  That pretty much sums up living with climate change around here, in Los Angeles.  California is currently experiencing “the worst drought in 500 years.”  We had one minor “rain event” in October just before Rob Hopkins came to town, and another minor rain event in late January. Up

I was born in 1933 so my upbringing involved all those things associated with a wartime economy, food, clothes and petrol rationing all these things seemed natural and worth doing to achieve a result. Also I don’t remember feeling deprived! In 1944 I went to a Quaker school to

One tool that some Transition initiatives have been finding useful in thinking about resources in a different way is Streetbank.  Streetbank, as its founders put it, “puts you in touch with your community, bringing neighbourboods closer and making the world a bit nicer”.  Sounds pretty akin to Transition we thought.

I had been hanging around the periphery of Transition Town Tooting for a while, attending the occasional meeting and event, but without really absorbing what it was about. There was (to my uneducated mind) a sense of community, and of being responsible for your surroundings. There were of course some

The most commonly asked question I’ve heard from Transition initiatives that have been going a while is “How can we get people who come to our events, to start taking on responsibility, so our initiative can grow and those of us at the centre don’t get exhausted?” A