Transition Culture

A fascinating discussion I had with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition in Boston about putting public health on the Transition agenda.

Nick Temple is Director of Business and Enterprise at Social Enterprise UK. We talked via Skype while he sat in a London coffee shop, about social enterprise, innovation and scaling up.

Annie Leonard, director of 'The Story of Stuff' and the other films in the 'Stuff' series, talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

Adam Corner is a Research Associate in the Understanding Risk research group at Cardiff University. His research looks at how people evaluate arguments and evidence, the communication of climate change, and the public understanding of emerging areas of science such as nanotechnologies and geoengineering. The interview focused on a recent article he wrote for Aeon magazine entitled 'Ad nauseam: the more we hate it, the more it agrees with us. How advertising turned anti-consumerism into a secret weapon': http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/how-advertising-turned-anti-consumerism-into-a-secret-weapon/

Oliver James is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Psychologist, registered by the British Psychological Society. He is Britain's best known psychologist. He is author of 'Affluenza', 'The Selfish Capitalist' and, more recently, 'Love Bombing'. Here he speaks to Rob Hopkins of Transition Network.

Rupert Morrison of the wonderful Drift Record Shop in Totnes discusses the rebirth of vinyl and what it tells us about our relationship with music, materialism and our local economies. http://thedriftrecordshop.net/

Ruth Potts is co-author with Andrew Simms of 'The New Materialism' and one of the founders of Bread, Print and Roses http://breadprintandroses.org/.

Ugo Vallauri discusses Restart parties, the power of fixing stuff and thinking like a social enterprise. http://therestartproject.org/

Frances Northrop is Transition in Action manager with Transition Town Totnes. Here she talks about how the organisation is responding to austerity in its work.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Doria Robinson is Executive Director of Urban Tilth, an organisation which cultivates agriculture in Richmond to help the community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system". She's amazing. In this interview she talks about social justice, urban agriculture, having Chevron as a neighbour and her thoughts on scaling up. www.urbantilth.org.

Pam Warhurst of Incredible Edible Todmorden discusses the power of food growing, of the potential of food for reviving local economies, and as a response to austerity, with Rob Hopkins of Transition Network.