The impact of Transition. In numbers.
By rob hopkins 23rd April 2014
Here’s something we’d love your help with. How can we capture the impact of Transition in numbers? We’ve done our best with what we can find, and we’d love to know what you would add from your local initiative. Any numbers you can put to your impact? Number of meetings? Amount of funding? Amount raised in a share option? Number of carrots grown on a train station? It’s over to you. Let us know (use the comments box below), and we’ll publish the final version at the end of the month…
The Impact of Transition in numbers |
|
Number of countries with active TIs |
44 |
Number of Transition initiatives registered with Transition Network |
1,130 |
Number of initiatives in Japan registered with Transition Network |
5 |
Number of initiatives in Japan registered on national Japanese Transition site |
40 |
Percentage of those involved in Transition who are women |
58% 4 |
Subscribers to the Transition Network newsletter in March 2014 |
17,929 |
Subscribers to the Transition Network newsletter in January 2011 |
9,309 |
Number of people who have done Transition Training in the UK and US |
3,637 |
Percentage of those still active in Transition 4 years after doing Transition Training |
86% |
Number of UK pupils who have been involved in Transition Network’s Schools in Transition pilot |
Over 3,700 |
Percentage of Bristol Mayor George Ferguson’s salary paid in Bristol Pounds |
100% |
Number of members of the EU’s Economic & Social Committee who spent a day with their local Transition initiative |
19 (all of them) |
Percentage of TIs considering themselves “very” or “fairly successful” |
75.7% 1 |
Number of times ‘Transition’ appears in UK government’s ‘Community Energy Strategy’ (2014) |
10 |
Number of Transition Trainers in the world |
137 in 25 countries |
Number of initiatives in Brazil registered with Transition Network |
4 |
Number of initiatives in Brazil registered on national Brazilian Transition site |
61 |
Number of people involved in the average successful TI |
189.5 1 |
Transition Network’s Twitter followers |
13,500 |
Percentage of TIs that are legally constituted |
64% 1 |
Theme most frequently tackled by TIs |
Food 1 |
Amount raised through share launch by Transition Bath/Corsham’s community energy company (Bath & West Community Energy) |
£750,000 |
Amount West Solent Solar Co-op (set up by New Forest Transition) is seeking to raise through shares for a community solar farm |
£2,200,000 |
Average percentage of TI core group members who’ve done Transition Training |
3 1 |
Turnover of 20 highly replicable Transition-oriented enterprises identified by the REconomy Project
|
£3.5m |
Number of people they employ between them
|
109 |
Number of national Transition hubs formulating a strategy to support REconomy type activity in their country
|
7 |
Outside temperature that didn’t put off 100 people from attending the first ever Latvian REconomy event |
20 below |
Percentage of TIs who think they are “not good at diversity” |
55.9% 1 |
Number of initiatives in Sweden registered with Transition Network |
7 |
Number of initiatives in Sweden registered on national Swedish Transition site |
192 |
Amount of CO2 saved per household by Transition Streets participants in Totnes |
1.2 tonnes 5 |
Number of households in the town that took part |
550 5 |
Amount of Google returns for the term ‘Transition Town’ (although some will also be people who live in towns and are undergoing gender realignment) |
75,800,000 |
Number of times 2013 Guardian article about Transition was shared through social media |
Over 10,000 |
Number of weeks The Power of Just Doing Stuff was No 1. In the Guardian Bookstores best sellers list |
2 |
Number of times In Transition 2.0 was viewed on YouTube in its first 6 weeks there |
26,000 6 |
Number of page views on TransitionNetwork.org during 12 months up to March 2013. |
1,182,360 |
Number of downloads for Transition Network’s 3 recent Economic Evaluation reports |
4,922 |
Percentage of people for whom Transition is their first experience of activism |
32% 2 |
Number of States in the US where Transition is active |
37 |
Number of languages in which In Transition 2.0 is subtitled. |
22 6 |
Number of UK local currency schemes inspired through Transition |
6 |
Bank of England’s estimate of amount of local currencies in circulation in the UK |
£385,000 |
And their estimate of the amount of Sterling in circulation |
£54.2 billion |
Percentage of TIs that are city-based |
27.5% 3 |
Percentage of TIs engaged in projects around food and growing |
40% 4 |
Number of initiatives in New Zealand registered with Transition Network |
11 |
Number of initiatives in New Zealand registered on national Transition site |
70 |
Number of Transition initiatives set up by local councils. |
0 4 |
Percentage of TIs reporting “attracting wider interest” as their biggest obstacle |
76% |
Percentage of TIs who have begun ‘building a bridge to local government’ |
83% 4 |
Numbers of people estimated to read each edition of Transition Free Press |
30-40,000 |
Number of people attending a Transition Training in Nagymágocs, a central-south Hungarian village. |
8 (should have been more but “most of the participants chose to go to a pig slaughter instead”. |
References
1: Feola G., R J Nunes (2013) Failure and Success of Transition Initiatives: a study of the international replication of the Transition Movement, Research Note 4. Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading, August 2013
2: Seyfang, G. (2009d) Transition Norwich: a fine city in Transition. Report of the 2009 Membership survey. University of East Anglia.
3: Haxeltine, A., Seyfang, G. (2009) Transitions for the People: theory and practice of ‘Transition’ and ‘Resilience’ in the UK’s Transition movement. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Working Paper 134.
4: Seyfang, G., Haxeltine, A. (2012) Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2012, volume 30, pages 381 – 400
5: Beetham, H. (2011) Social Impacts of Transition Together SITT: Investigating the social impacts, benefits and sustainability of the Transition Together/Transition Streets initiative in Totnes. Research report, Transition Streets, (June 2011).
6: In Transition 2.0 is online at http://youtu.be/FFQFBmq7X84
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