Rob Hopkins' Transition Cookbook
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The document discusses the concept of transition as a means of fostering community resilience in response to long-term economic challenges. It highlights various practical initiatives and community engagement efforts across different towns, such as food co-ops, local energy projects, and social enterprises. The focus is on collaboration, diversity, and innovative problem-solving to enhance sustainability within communities.
Rob Hopkins' Transition Cookbook
- 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.
- 40. www.transitionnetwork.org www.transitionculture.org or follow me on Twitter @robintransition . Coming soon! The Transition Companion