Transition Culture

Sir David King is former Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government, and is currently the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change. Here he spoke to Transition Network's Sarah McAdam.

William Lana, outgoing Transition Network Board member, on his advice for anyone else thinking of applying to be a Trustee.

We asked William Lana, outgoing Trustee of Transition Network, how his time on the Board was...

Katharine Knox of Joseph Rowntree Foundation discusses the Foundation's work on climate change, communities, resilience and social justice. http://www.jrf.org.uk/topic/climate-change-and-communities

As part of our 'Living with Climate Change' series, we talk to Guy Watson of Riverford Organic Vegetables about the impacts of extreme weather and climate change on his ability to run a successful organic vegetables business. www.riverford.co.uk.

What are the qualities, the skills, the abilities that Transition Network is looking for in its new Trustees?

As part of Transition Network's search for four new Trustees, we ask Delivery Director Sarah McAdam what can people expect to get out of being a Trustee?

As Transition Network seeks four new Trustees, we ask Delivery Director Sarah McAdam what is a Trustee, and what do they do?

On Tuesday 25th February, Sophy Banks facilitated a webinar entitled 'Building Personal Resilience – How to Sustain Momentum'. Here is the podcast of it. For more information, and for upcoming webinars, see www.transitionnetwork.org/gaia-radio-p…ree-webinars.

George Marshall co-founded the Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) in 2004, and he is currently its Director of Projects. Here he talks with Rob Hopkins of Transition Network. www.climateoutreach.org.uk/

Professor Myles R. Allen is head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department. Here he talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins about living with climate change and the recent floods in the UK.

On Tuesday 18th February, Nick Osborne facilitated a webinar entitled 'Creating an Effective and Engaged Team'. Here is the podcast of it. For more information, and for upcoming webinars, see http://www.transitionnetwork.org/gaia-radio-partnership-transition-network-presents-transition-conversations-series-free-webinars

In the first in the 'Transition Conversations' series presented by Gaia University and Transition Network, in partnership with the REconomy Project, , Tina Clarke and Nicola Hillary discuss funding and financing for your projects, and what needs to be in place before you can move towards funding. For more information on the rest of the series, see http://www.transitionnetwork.org/gaia-radio-partnership-transition-network-presents-transition-conversations-series-free-webinars

What resources does Transition take? We spoke to Cheryl Lyon of Transition Town Peterborough http://transitiontownpeterborough.ca/

Paul Kingsnorth is a writer and poet who lives in Cumbria, England. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. His latest book, published in April, is called 'The Wake'. http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/

Zenrainman (also known as Viswanath Srikantaiah) works on sustainable water management and sanitation systems and ecological architecture in Bangalore in India. He runs Biome Solutions, and has a dream to cover the roofs of Bangalore with rice paddies.

Andy Lipkis of Tree People (www.treepeople.org) discusses issues around scaling up with Rob Hopkins of Transition Network.

Andy Lipkis of Tree People (www.treepeople.org) responds to a question about David Holmgren's recent assertion that the best way to avoid runaway climate change is to deliberately engineer a "crash on demand".

Rosie Boycott is Chair of the London Food Board and founder of Capital Growth. She writes and speaks regularly about the importance of food in improving health and in reducing the carbon emissions, which cause climate change. You can read more about Capital Growth at http://www.capitalgrowth.org/

Kevin McCabe is a cob builder based in Ottery St. Mary, Devon. He has revolutionised the construction of cob buildings in the UK which had pretty much died out. His company, www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk specialise in both new cob building and restoration of old ones. He is currently building the largest cob building ever built, which recently appeared on Channel 4's Grand Designs programme.