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Postcard from Transition Bondi Beach, Australia

Recently Naresh Giangrande, Transition Network Training Co-ordinator, and Sophy Banks, formerly of TN, had an opportunity to visit Bondi Transition Initiative. Below is a blog from Transition Bondi about the evening, and following, a lovely exchange of emails between Sophy and some of the team. We thought it was a

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Christopher Lyon

1. Brief Introduction of your Work My work explores the social dimensions of resilience, adaptation and transformation. To date I have mostly focused on community resilience and the cultural and other processes that communities use to navigate challenge and change. I’m very interested in how people and groups understand

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: Juan del Río

Could you give us a brief introduction to your work? Since 2008 I have been working to develop community projects around sustainable living, local resilience and systems change. I have worked in several countries and with different organisations as a trainer, facilitator, designer, writer and researcher. Since 2012 I have

Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation: in Portobello – Justin Kenrick

Justin, could you give us a brief introduction to your work: I am an activist anthropologist working for forest peoples’ land rights in Africa (mostly in Kenya and DRC) in my work for the Forest Peoples Programme. I also work for community resilience in Scotland. My work in Africa is

Tom Henfrey unveils ‘Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation’

“I’m Tom Henfrey. I consider myself a practitioner and activist within the Transition and Permaculture movements. With a main professional background as a researcher I’ve often made research the main way I contribute to these movements: navigating the boundary between research and practical action in Transition, which I’

Riding a wave – our experience of the month’s public voting stage of the Aviva Community Fund

A guest post by Chuck Whitehead, Transition Town Tooting: TTT, CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers – a charity based in Tooting) and The Grange have just finished a month of seeking public votes in the Aviva Community Fund for Gardens of Refuge, a partnership project with refugees and

Breathing new life into old computers

By Bart Anderson of Transition Palo Alto: I have Eitan Fenson of Transition Palo Alto to blame for the piles of old laptops littering our living room. He’s the one who started me on a voyage of discovery about how to reduce the environmental impact of computers. And how