Category: News
Cultivating Just Transition: reflections on a learning journey
El Herndlhofer, Transition Together’s Just Transition Lead shares what happened when 30 Transition groups gathered monthly to learn and share in principles and practices for weaving social justice into their community efforts
El Herndlhofer
5 December 2024
7 minute read
5 December 2024
7 minute read
Wealth in Our Hands – Community Wealth Building in Wakefield
In September, Just Transition Wakefield with the support of their local Unite community brand, Wakefield Council, Trade's Council Climate Action Leeds and Nova held a successful conference “Let the community be the solution – Community Wealth Building for our district“. Stuart Boothman from the group explains what community wealth building is, and why it's important for the Transition we're working towards.
Stuart Boothman
5 November 2024
7 minute read
5 November 2024
7 minute read
Young People and Transition: Making Space at the Table
This summer, the youth charity LIFEbeat supported Transition Together in exploring how Transition could engage and serve young people, their perspectives and concerns around the climate crisis, and what they might need to be able to participate in such movements and act on these issues.
Gina Umney, who recently joined Transition Falmouth, took part in LIFEbeat’s creative practitioner training and youth residential, and shares how it revealed how groups might empower young people to shape the future.
Gina Umney
5 November 2024
9 minute read
5 November 2024
9 minute read
What should a city do? Community-led change in Belfast and beyond
Within two days and an eight-mile radius, Chris and Rich from our team visited community-owned greengrocers, a solar- and people-powered women’s centre, projects reinventing food banks, back alleys and community food growing. Welcome to Northern Ireland, where we discovered much to inspire communities everywhere.
Chris McCartney
25 October 2024
14 minute read
25 October 2024
14 minute read
What is the Transition Assembly – and how to be part of it
The Transition Assembly is shaping up to be a key turning point in our Movement’s history. Over two days, together we will reflect on where we stand, who we are and the role we want to play in shaping a more just and sustainable future.
Why now? We recently reflected on why this is an important time for communities to come together and lead change, and for us to put the best of our experience and learning in the Transition movement [...]
Chris McCartney
1 October 2024
6 minute read
1 October 2024
6 minute read
“A stepping stone to the next part of the Transition movement”
A team of “Network Weavers” have set about building stronger connections across the Transition Movement, and preparing the ground for a first Transition Assembly in 2025. Chris McCartney eavesdrops on their conversations as they plan their work and explore how to strengthen and support the local work of community-led change.
Chris McCartney
10 September 2024
9 minute read
10 September 2024
9 minute read
Why Transition? And why now?
Chris McCartney explores how Transition can be the antidote to feeling overwhelmed and underpowered to respond to the many big challenges we're facing, and why this is great moment to get involved.
Chris McCartney
6 September 2024
6 minute read
6 September 2024
6 minute read
Looking back, looking forward on our Just Transition project
As our Just Transition Lead, Rona Hardie prepares to leave the role for further study, she introduces her successor and reflects back on the project so far.
Rona Hardie
31 July 2024
4 minute read
31 July 2024
4 minute read
Meet your Network Weavers
Introducing our three Network Weavers, who will spend the next nine months forging stronger connections across our Movement and preparing the ground for the first UK Transition Assembly.
Chris McCartney
4 July 2024
4 minute read
4 July 2024
4 minute read
What to do about the General Election?
How can communities positively engage with the election? We explore ways to bring care and common ground to the debate, find ways to bring people together, amplify community views and throw our support behind initiatives to build a better future for people and planet.
Chris McCartney
5 June 2024
12 minute read
5 June 2024
12 minute read
Seeking Network Weavers
“From talking and reflecting to doing and building”. Richard Couldrey shares the latest phase of the hub development process, to explore structures and ways to connect and give voice to the Transition Movement, culminating in plans for a People’s Assembly early next year.
Richard Couldrey
24 April 2024
3 minute read
24 April 2024
3 minute read
Making way for Justice in each community – Transition Alive 1
When you work for change, there are some questions which consistently arise. In Spring 2024, we convened three Transition Alive conversations to grapple with some of these knotty questions and explore projects which seek to answer them. Cam Elizabeth (writer, film producer and founder member of Welsh Transition group Usk Together for the Climate) shares her reflections on what emerged.
Cam Elizabeth
17 April 2024
6 minute read
17 April 2024
6 minute read