Transition Culture

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen, Independent Councillor for Frome and now the town's Mayor, shares his 10 tips for reinvigorating local democracy.

Peter MacFadyen is an Independent councillor in Frome, and was recently elected as the town's Mayor. He is one of the founders of Comic Relief, and author of the recently-published 'Flatpack Democracy'. http://www.flatpackdemocracy.co.uk/

Janet Richardson is Professor of Health Service Research in the Faculty of Health, Education and Society at Plymouth University, and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health with NHS Plymouth. In 2011 she did the first Health Impact Assessment on a Transition initiative, looking at Transition Town Totnes.

David Pencheon is a UK trained public health doctor and is currently director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (England).

Professor Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is also one of the authors of The Lancet's Manifesto for Planetary Health (http://tinyurl.com/k2z37hp). He spoke to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

Mark Dooris is Professor in Health and Sustainability at the University of Central Lancashire. He is one of the leading thinkers in the coming together of public health, sustainability and responses to climate change.

As part of our month on 'Transition and Politics', we talked to Natalie Benn, Leader of the Green Party.

Angela Raffle is a member of Transition Bristol and is a public health professional. We talked to her about Transition, climate change and the overlap between Transition and public health.

Giuseppe Feola and Richard J Nunes are researchers at the University of Reading. They recently published 'Failure and Success of Transition initiatives: a study of the international replication of the Transition movement'. It is one of the best-researched pieces about Transition, so we thought it might good to catch up with them for a chat. You can download their paper at http://www.walker-institute.ac.uk/publications/research_notes/WalkerInResNote4.pdf.

Sarah Timmins is a nurse who is training to be a health visitor. She blogs about her "own private journey into a year, and hopefully much longer, of trying to raise awareness of climate change and its devastating effects on human health". You'll find her blog at http://redandblackuk.wordpress.com/

Michael Shuman is author of several books on local economic development, an attorney, an economist, and is currently Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets. He spoke to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

Clive Hamilton is an Australian academic and writer of several books, including 'Growth Fetish', 'Requiem for a Species' and, most recently, 'Earthmasters: the dawn of the age of climate engineering'. We talked to him by Skype about climate change, and the implications of embracing geoengineering as a response.

Katrina Brown is a social scientist based at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter. She has written widely on resilience, so as part of our month on "The Impact Transition is Having", we thought it would be good to hear her thoughts.