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In 2012, an article in Troy Media entitled How Transition is starting to rebuild Ontario looked at the 30 Transition initiatives underway in the province.  The author, Bruce Stewart, wrote: “For Ontario, the Transition movement has the potential to do what it’s done in the UK: be the engine

I was lucky to grow up during the much maligned 70s when we learnt so much about how to deal with what the future might bring. I heard and read Schumacher. I drew the peak oil curve for myself. Then I became an actor and director. In 1999 I did

While getting my Master’s degree I studied our planet’s rising greenhouse gas levels, including their implications to the health of our natural resources and climate.  After graduating I worked for a nonprofit for a while, gave birth to twins, and then suffered a major health setback.  For years

Today Transition Network launches the first version of our Funding Primer (“Tips, suggestions and advice for getting your Transition group’s projects funded”).  We hope you find it useful. Originally developed for the Transition Thrive training, it offers an overview of approaches and options for Transition initiatives seeking funding for

We recently posted Part One of our Transition Town Totnes Reunion, looking at what the resources were needed to get TTT up and running with strong foundations, and at what actually were the resources that were needed alongside funding.  Today we post Part Two, which picks up the story from

Looking back now, it feels that I have been Transitioning since I know myself.  As it happened with many people in Transition movement, for me it started with increasing a sense of objective investigation of the inner and outer world. I come from a background of Buddhist meditative practice, which