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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.

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Given the depth of the challenges our world is facing - how can the good stuff that's happening be spread, replicated and scaled up - without causing some of the very problems we're trying to resolve?  In the second of her series inspired by our Transition Alive events, Cam Elizabeth explores how this works in practice, the joys and pitfalls, from projects and businesses to emerge from the Transition Movement. 

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Learning is a live journey which shapes the future - and one we must travel together. In the third of her reflections, Cam Elizabeth shares an experience of looking back into the history of the Transition Movement, and towards the future with humility, determination and a healthy dose of playful creativity

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Transition Town Dorchester’s community farm has a vision of becoming ‘an outdoor village hall’ for the whole community. This week, a new partnership with Dorset Mind will help it become a space for connection, wellness and growing food where more people feel like they can belong.

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Transition groups in Cornwall are building a network of climate cafes where people can safely explore the climate and ecological emergencies and the strong feelings it gives rise to.

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What If… we could reimagine our future as thriving, fairer, more resilient, more connected? How could that vision help us to move forward and take practical action? We're delighted to bring you our updated guide to holding a community visioning process...

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Transition Wilmslow’s long and patient campaigning to protect a unique peat bog habitat has paid off, as a landscape partnership they helped to launch secured a quarter of a million pounds to restore the site. Pippa Jones tells the story of how a small group, looking at a scarred landscape, was able to put Lindow Moss on the map and press for its restoration for climate, biodiversity, and local people.

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Transition Together’s new Training and Group Support Lead Daniel Balla has been planting bulbs. Here, he reflects on how, like gardening, our work for change can be nurtured and thrive with the right seeds, tools and the wisdom and experience of fellow growers.

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Our new Just Transition Lead Rona Hardie has been in post three months. Here she reflects on work already taking place in the Movement to centre justice, and how we can journey together to a fairer, thriving, better future for everyone in our communities.

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Susan Holmes, chair of Carmarthen Together, shares about their new bilingual community environmental centre. It's fast becoming a hub for practical action, connection and skills, and an amazing feat, less than a year after they launched the Transition town.

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In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, more than 200 organisations came together at CTRLshift summits, to look at new ways to collaborate, connect and build a broad movement for positive social change. It sparked five local experiments in innovative ways to build community power. We speak to those involved about their impact and what’s been learnt about how change happens - and share an invitation to join a fresh round of prototypes.

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A year ago, we looked back on the activity and impact of Transition Together. As upsetting and traumatic events are all too present in the world and in our minds, it feels important to look back again over the year just gone, to take stock, celebrate what’s gone well and renew our intentions to focus on the work that is yet to be completed.

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