Rob explains how Transition is set of ingredients and treats us to insights into how initiatives are developing in the UK.

1. Transition as Cookery:
Assembling the
ingredients of
community
resilience.
15th June 2011. RESOLVE conference
Rob Hopkins
Transition Network

4. “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

6. 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...

7. Coming Together as Groups (Belsize, London).

8. Community brainstorming tools
(Stoke Newington, London).

9. Inclusion and diversity
Transition Town Tooting’s Trashcatchers’ Carnival...

10. Visioning and Backcasting
(Koganei, Japan)

11. Engaging the Local Council
‘Towards a Resilient Taunton Deane’: October 2009

12. Practical manifestations
Transition Belsize’s ‘Draught Busters’

13. Practical Manifestations
Transition Malvern Hills’ ‘Gasketeers’.

14. Unleashings!
The first Unleashing in a Brazilian favela....

15. Local food initiatives
Transition Town Tooting’s annual ‘Foodival’

16. Local food initiatives
Transition Town Forres’s community garden.

17. Speaking up for Transition
‘Transition Endorsements’: Malvern Hills Unleashing.

18. Education in Transition
Transition Newent work with their local school to support
them in teaching food growing...

19. Ensuring land access
Transition Dorchester’s new community farm

20. Social enterprise
Transition Town Kingston’s ‘From the Ground Up’ food co-op

21. Social enterprise
Transition Marsden and Slaithwaite’s Community Shop

22. Community supported farms, bakeries and breweries
The Handmade Bakery: a subscription based bakery

23. Community supported farms, bakeries and breweries
Transition Town Topsham’s ‘Topsham Ales’ community brewery

24. Energy Resilience Assessments
A tool developed by Transition Training and Consulting...

25. Tools for plugging the leaks
The Mayor of Brixton unveils the Brixton Pound

26. Community renewable energy companies
The Lewes Community Solar Power Station

27. Strategic thinking
Transition Norwich’s CSA farm

28. Strategic local infrastructure
Transition Town Portobello’s new market, Edinburgh.

29. Totnes

30. The ‘Totnes, the nut tree capital of Britain’ project, planting hybrid
walnut and almond trees, sponsored by local businesses

31. ‘Garden Share’ schemes match
people who want to garden with
those who have unused garden
space

32. Transition Town Totnes celebrate being one of DECC’s ‘Low Carbon
Communities’, an award of £625,000 for ‘Transition Streets’

33. The UK’s first community-generated
‘Energy Descent Plan’,
produced in Totnes.
www.totnesedap.org.uk

37. ATMOS Project in Totnes,
seeking to develop a 8 acre site
for the community.

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