Climate change and sustainability have become a large focus in research as we try to cope with and prevent climate change. With that, many researchers have become interested in organizations and people working on sustainability issues.
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Today we are lucky to have a guest post, a graphic created by the lovely people over at invaluable.com. As world-wide awareness of the impact of our choices on the environment rises, it becomes easier and more important to live a sustainable life.
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There are many organizations out there hoping to contribute a sustainable transition. Yet, despite the effort they put into their work, it’s been a struggle for many of them to simply exist much less make progress in their goals.
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Thus far in the transition basics series, we have talked about transitions as a process through which one way of doing things is replaced by another and that in order to fight climate change we must go through a transition to a more sustainable society. Today we are going to give “the way we do things” a name: the regime.
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There are many charities, companies, and cooperatives working towards a more sustainable society. However, there are many issues holding back these organizations and one of the biggest factors is resource dependence.
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Last time, we explored what a transition is and learned that it occurs when we replace one way of doing things with another. This is important because currently our way of doing things is causing climate chance.
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Urban community gardens offer the potential to positively transform our urban landscapes. They provide us with space for recreation, community development, and help to mitigate the urban heat island.
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I think that the word “transition” means a lot of different things to different people. The word has certainly been around for a while – there is the demographic transition and transition economies, there is also transitioning from one field of work to the next.
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If you have been around transition research for a while, you know that it is full of jargon and other nonsense that makes it difficult to understand. The concept of a “community-based initiative”, sometimes called a grassroots initiative or simply a “CBI”, is one of those things with a complicated name, but in reality is quite simple.
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I must admit that I am a little nervous about finally starting a blog. It’s something that I have been thinking about for most of my PhD and kept putting off. There is nothing like the self-doubt of “I don’t know enough yet” or “who cares what I have to say?” that helps me put off even the easiest of tasks. Okay, so why blog now?
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I have long wanted to start my own blog. I have started, stopped, deleted, started again. I blame my PhD - after all who wants write MORE after writing all day? Not me. I admire all those academics who write lovely academic blogs in their free time. They are all so insightful and beautifully written. How do they do it and still find time to sleep?
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