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.
Read MoreLast 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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreIf 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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