“When Transition forgets what it’s called”: the Arts and Social Change
When we started Transition, I imagined it as an environmental process. Now I see it as a cultural process.
When we started Transition, I imagined it as an environmental process. Now I see it as a cultural process.
Interestingly the similarities between a healthy human body and a healthy Transition group are both about taking an holistic view of what is happening in order to prevent problems by checking that all the different parts are working well.
One local Councillor wants to use the report’s findings to help combat a new supermarket being proposed for the town.
Working to establish a City-to-Valley flow of Transitioners to and from the NYC Metro area and the Mid-Hudson Valley with food security and relationship building in mind.
Resource depletion and climate change effects various demographic groups in vastly different ways.
What does the Power to Convene look like in the work of Transition Stroud?
It was in a small sideroom at the Resilience Hub in Portland, Maine, that I first heard the term ‘The Power to Convene’. It fascinated me, and finally gave me a name for this thing I’d been seeing for years.
People are also the environment, we are our own ecological system integrated into the larger systems.
I have sometimes been asked "if you had a prime time TV advertising slot to promote Transition, what would you put on it?"
The beauty of the Transition movement is that it is not a ‘one size fits all’ approach.
FULL engagement with transitioning asks us to recognize the power of goodness in others, our neighbors and most difficultly, to accept it in ourselves!
Transition Market Harborough’s attempts to influence development in their town.