Category: News

When Rob Hopkins helped us fall in love with the future…
To start the year, Transition Together hosted an online webinar in which Transition co-founder Rob Hopkins gave the first sneak peek of his forthcoming book ‘How to Fall in Love with the Future: a time traveller’s guide to changing the world‘.
About 150 people joined the call from across the world, and a fascinating deep dive into time travel, ‘temporal fluidity’, the power of longing, why beavers are so wonderful, the need to uncancel the future and much more then [...]
Chris McCartney
21 January 2025
2 minute read
21 January 2025
2 minute read

Vacant site to community ecosystem
Chris Gabe of Bridgehouse Garden Community Group describes an incredible journey from tarmac site in South London to thriving forest garden and a cosy wooden barn, hand built by the local community group after learning a host of new practical skills.
Chris Gabe
8 January 2025
2 minute read
8 January 2025
2 minute read

Transition Wilmslow ready to welcome you
Transition Wilmslow is the nearest group to our venue for the upcoming Transition Assembly. Find out more about the activities, and the chance to see them in person.
Chris McCartney
7 January 2025
4 minute read
7 January 2025
4 minute read

Reflecting on three years of impact
As the year draws to a close, we've taken the chance to reflect on our impact and what's changing for Transition groups and our communities as a result of the past three years of activity.
Chris McCartney
18 December 2024
1 minute read
18 December 2024
1 minute read

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