There has been a renewed groundswell on local sustainability discussions and actions on food, economics, communication and mobility.  The transition towns movement seems to be an amalgamation of a lot of previous strands of grassroots activity. I still see conflicts in the localism vs. globalism strands of debate. I can’t help but feel the localist perspective is like the old “cut and run” strategy i.e. the wealthy and comfortable retreating from an increasingly unstable world….

Putting that aside, I was happy to see Jody Boehnert of Eco-labs open up the discussion on transition and design. While it may well be a reformulation of old processes it will be interesting to see over the coming years if the vocabulary of transition will move the agenda in new directions.

Read Jody’s paper here