Transition as Cookery:

Assembling the

ingredients of

community

resilience.

15th June 2011. RESOLVE conference

Rob Hopkins

Transition Network

“It is not like an ordinary recession where you

lose output and get it back quickly. You may

not get it back for many years, if ever, and

that is a big long-run loss of living standards

for all people in this country.”

Mervyn King, Governor, Bank of England, March 2011

Transition as... • Transition as an inner process

• Transition as leading by practical example...

• Transition as an approach rooted in place and

circumstance...

• Transition as a tool for turning problems into

solutions...

• Transition as a cultural shift...

• Transition as an economic process....

• Transition as a storyteller...

Coming Together as Groups (Belsize, London).

Community brainstorming tools

(Stoke Newington, London).

Inclusion and diversity

Transition Town Tooting’s Trashcatchers’ Carnival...

Visioning and Backcasting

(Koganei, Japan)

Engaging the Local Council

‘Towards a Resilient Taunton Deane’: October 2009

Practical manifestations

Transition Belsize’s ‘Draught Busters’

Practical Manifestations

Transition Malvern Hills’ ‘Gasketeers’.

Unleashings!

The first Unleashing in a Brazilian favela....

Local food initiatives

Transition Town Tooting’s annual ‘Foodival’

Local food initiatives

Transition Town Forres’s community garden.

Speaking up for Transition

‘Transition Endorsements’: Malvern Hills Unleashing.

Education in Transition

Transition Newent work with their local school to support

them in teaching food growing...

Ensuring land access

Transition Dorchester’s new community farm

Social enterprise

Transition Town Kingston’s ‘From the Ground Up’ food co-op

Social enterprise

Transition Marsden and Slaithwaite’s Community Shop

Community supported farms, bakeries and breweries

The Handmade Bakery: a subscription based bakery

Community supported farms, bakeries and breweries

Transition Town Topsham’s ‘Topsham Ales’ community brewery

Energy Resilience Assessments

A tool developed by Transition Training and Consulting...

Tools for plugging the leaks

The Mayor of Brixton unveils the Brixton Pound

Community renewable energy companies

The Lewes Community Solar Power Station

Strategic thinking

Transition Norwich’s CSA farm

Strategic local infrastructure

Transition Town Portobello’s new market, Edinburgh.

Totnes

The ‘Totnes, the nut tree capital of Britain’ project, planting hybrid

walnut and almond trees, sponsored by local businesses

‘Garden Share’ schemes match

people who want to garden with

those who have unused garden

space

Transition Town Totnes celebrate being one of DECC’s ‘Low Carbon

Communities’, an award of £625,000 for ‘Transition Streets’

The UK’s first community-generated

‘Energy Descent Plan’,

produced in Totnes.

www.totnesedap.org.uk

ATMOS Project in Totnes,

seeking to develop a 8 acre site

for the community.

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