Blog
What we engage with online can have a remarkable effect on the ground. It can accelerate change and extend our communities of support beyond physical boundaries. It is not entirely coincidental that many social movements of the modern day, including Transition, follow the same growth in participation as that of social media usage. There is […]
Some of you may have been to one of the UK roadshows Locality (with the Plunkett Foundation and UnLtd) ran recently to talk about Power to Change. Through Power to Change, a new stream of funding will be open for enterprises from early next year through the Big Lottery Fund. With £150m as potentially available, […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was in a workshop at the Transition Roadshow in St Andrews. We were discussing how Transition Initiatives (TIs) can maintain an energised core group, alongside delivering great projects. As we exchanged ideas on what the role of the ‘core’ of a Transition Initiative is, a phrase emerged that potentially […]
I’ve just returned from an eye-opening, mind-expanding week in Leipzig at the 4th Annual global Degrowth congress. This vibrant gathering brought together over 3,000, mostly young, ‘prosumer’ activists and practitioners from a variety of new economy movements from around the world. I learnt a huge amount from makers, hacktivists, anarcho-syndical cooperativists, collaborative-commoners, anti-capitalists, free-culturalists, buen-vivir, […]
About 18 months ago, I invited the women of the TN staff and board to an evening meeting to begin to explore our experience of working in the Transition movement. We discovered that our reasons for wanting to get together and our perspectives on gender were many and various. But some common themes emerged and […]
In October 2013, the Transition national hubs of Belgium, Croatia, Italy, Latvia and the Netherlands joined forces with the UK’s REconomy Project to explore what REconomy might look like in each country. We formed a working group that met only online, and we all enjoyed the wonderful experience of learning about different countries and situations. […]
A post by Robert Holtom. “It’s the economy stupid” was one of the taglines for Bill Clinton’s 1992 election campaign. And still the machinations of the economy are affecting us – conservative governments imposing austerity agendas on societies hugely dependent on public services, the banking sector resolutely not learning any lessons, and yet more of […]
One of the REconomy Project’s aims is to find new ways that communities can provide support and investment to local enterprises, who in turn offer benefits back to the community – not just in terms of jobs – but also strengthened local resilience, minimal environmental impacts and fairer ways of trading and profit-sharing. Jay Tompt […]
We want community-led economic development, the kind that’s just, ecologically regenerative, inclusive and equitable. But it’s easier said than done. Yet for the past three years, we’ve been doing something that seems to be working. It’s relatively cheap and easy to do. And now it seems like a good time for this innovation to start […]
A post by Frances Northrop, manager of Transition Town Totnes, reporting on her recent trip to Zagreb. “From the moment Fiona’s email dropped into my inbox to ask me to represent REconomy at the inaugural Good Economy Conference in Zagreb I had a good feeling. Of course that was partly the opportunity to travel to […]
Connect