Storytelling plays a crucial role in how we share knowledge and learn about the world around us. Not only do stories teach us about life, they can also inspire us, fuel our imaginations and encourage us to act.
We are collecting stories of change rapid transition to share and demonstrate how rapid transition has happened in the past and to remove excuses for inaction and show the way ahead.
Transformative changes are called for to prevent climate breakdown and create the conditions for people to thrive together. These types of large scale, rapid changes can seem difficult to achieve but through our storytelling, we aim to show that this type of rapid transition is not only possible but has also been done before in many different ways.
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Rojava in Syria – growing local democracy and defending ecology in the midst of conflictIn 2012 in Rojava, Northern Syria, a group of Kurds set up a secular, ethnically inclusive and bottom-up democratic system, in which all ethnic and...
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The post-Cold War Cuban food experimentWith the rising awareness of the speed and scale of action needed to prevent climate breakdown, is a nervousness about our ability to meet the challenge....
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The simple strike goes global, led by young peopleIt might seem strange that bringing things to a standstill might help bring about a rapid transition, but that is exactly what a huge number of young people...
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Work less, gain more? The 4 day working weekResponding to a recession in the early 1990s, the public sector in the Netherlands began offering a four-day week to staff to save money. Since then it has...
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How Whatcom County opposed fossil fuel expansion and showed how to winFor more than two years now, the small community of Whatcom County, in Northwest Washington State in the U.S. has been working with local leaders to take...
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The decline of the single bottom line and the growth of B-CorpsBusiness is rarely a byword for sustainability. Sometimes a founders’ own ethics build a corporate culture of greater environmental care. Now, the B Corps...
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Space to breathe: From garden cities to cities in gardens – the rise of National Park CitiesOver half of the world’s population (55%) live in urban areas with that share expected to grow to over two thirds by 2050. In North America the figure...
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Iceland – independent economic policy, holding finance accountable and experimenting with local democracyIn 2019 Iceland is in the news for erecting a memorial plaque to its glacier, known as Okjökull, or Ok, which shrank so much due to the raised temperatures...
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Adblocking – the global cities clearing streets of advertising to promote human and environmental healthAdvertising fuels consumerism and overconsumption. One graphic representation of how much we are living beyond our environmental means is that in 2019, the...