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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

The challenge of scaling up well – Transition Alive 2

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. 
Cam Elizabeth
17 April 2024
6 minute read

“This is a Time for Serious Play” Transition Alive 3

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
Cam Elizabeth
17 April 2024
6 minute read

Transition farm throwing open its gates

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.
Chris McCartney
17 April 2024
6 minute read

“Facing the climate crisis is so much easier in good company”

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.
Katharine Lewis
16 April 2024
3 minute read

“The Future We Want” guide to community visioning

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...
Chris McCartney
15 March 2024
2 minute read

Peat bog restoration thanks to Transition group

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.
Pippa Jones
5 March 2024
3 minute read

Sowing seeds and tending – how training supports Transition

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.
Daniel Balla
21 February 2024
8 minute read

Putting justice at the heart of Transition

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.
Rona Hardie
6 February 2024
6 minute read

Bringing the planet to the heart of a Welsh town

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.
Susan Holmes
6 February 2024
3 minute read

Exploring how to shift control back to communities

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.
Chris McCartney
5 February 2024
10 minute read

The Story of our Second Year

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.
Chris McCartney
9 January 2024
9 minute read

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