9 Feb 2011
Localisation and Resilience at the Local Level: The Case of Transition Town Totnes (Devon, UK)
By Rob Hopkins
475 pp. University of Plymouth, Devon, UK – Oct. 2010. £15.00; available only in PDF at Transitionculture.org.
For several years groups of innovative, environmentally conscious people worldwide have been part of a social change movement called Transition. It strives to create relocalized communities that are resilient to the looming climate and energy crises, and in which “the future with less oil could be preferable to the present.”
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3 Dec 2010
Here is the ingredient about World Cafe and Open Space. I would love to be able to weave into it your stories about when you have used them, when they worked, and perhaps even when they didn’t. Do post any thoughts as comments please…
Context
Thinking about the implications and responses to peak oil and climate change on your own can be dispiriting and lead to POST PETROLEUM STRESS DISORDER (1.1). Brainstorming tools such as Open Space and World Cafe can be a pivotal part of your AWARENESS RAISING (2.9) work, and can also give birth to a number of PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS (3.9) and to people FORMING WORKING GROUPS (2.11).
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29 Nov 2010
Councillors from Somerset County Council taking part in a Transition Training
Context
Building a constructive relationship to your local authority can be a very constructive thing for both organisations. Once your initiative has dealt with BECOMING A FORMAL ORGANISATION (2.7), it could set about BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS (2.12) with a range of organisations, including the Council. Such an approach can happen either as a single initiative, or could come from a NETWORK OF TRANSITION INITIATIVES (4.2).
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23 Nov 2010
Transition Town Totnes has been running now for just over 4 years, and recently a group of us sat down to try and capture what has actually been achieved by the process. It has been a very illuminating process, one that is very useful to do in terms of being able to get a sense of what has actually been achieved on the ground (I highly recommend it). The name of the report, ‘So, what does Transition Town Totnes actually do?‘, comes from the question often asked by visitors to the town who come to see a Transition town, wander round the High Street and wonder why there are still cars and not windmills everywhere. This report is designed to explain all that is going on below the surface (as well as on top of it…).
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Localisation and Resilience at the Local Level: The Case of Transition Town Totnes (Devon, UK)
