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Climate Change

The Value of Values in Talking Climate (and not mathematical ones)

This is the third in a series of blogs from our Guest Editor Kate Heath, an ex-humanitarian worker now based in Paris – exploring how to have constructive conversations about climate change. The lessons I’ve learned along this journey seem to have come from stumbling into every possible pitfall. Want

We like life: Talking climate from the light side

How do you conceptualise climate change and energy issues? Disaster has been my day-to-day for the last 8 years. I appreciate this isn’t very normal. Working as a humanitarian, I’ve been trained and paid to live within and respond to it: conflict, Ebola, earthquake, drought. To operate day

Activism in the Anthropocene

Look out the window, see the air between your eyes and the horizon. This is the Anthropocene – a new geological age characterized by the critical impacts of human activities on the Earth’s systems. Every word you will ever speak will be articulated using this changed air. Look out the

COP23: Where is the place for community-led initiatives?

Robert Hall, president of Ecolise and Board member of the International Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) lives in the ecovillage of Suderbyn, Sweden. In January 2013 he quit his well-paid position with the Swedish government to become full-time ecovillage activist. Here, he talks to Christiane Kliemann about COP23, his hopes and

Building resilience

Rob Hopkins discusses efforts to understand, measure and build resilience across the Transition Network. This interview is published with thanks to the Institute for European Environmental Policy. It was featured in their November newsletter, Beyond GDP, which is published by the European Commission. Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of the

COP23 Demo in Bonn – Imagine all the people

For me as Transitioner climate change is a chance to overcome the habit of fighting and competition which is deeply embedded in our society, in the economic and the educational system, and in our bodies as well. Gesa Maschkowski The 25,000 who demonstrated in Bonn are a symbol for