Transition Ecosystem Map

Purpose

This document maps organizations, movements, and public thinkers whose work overlaps with pieces of the Transition framework. Most are not advocating the exact same end-state, but many are building adjacent capacities such as democratic ownership, commons stewardship, regenerative economics, solidarity economy infrastructure, peer-to-peer governance, and post-growth thinking.

Organizations and Movements

• Transition Network: Builds community-led local resilience and transition initiatives internationally; useful as a propagation and local-group model.
• Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL): Provides a practical framework for regenerative and distributive economies and engages directly with governments and institutions.
• Platform Cooperativism Consortium: Supports worker- and stakeholder-owned digital platforms as alternatives to platform capitalism.
• The Democracy Collaborative: Focuses on democratic economy and community wealth-building strategies.
• RIPESS: A global network promoting Social and Solidarity Economy across continents.
• P2P Foundation: Researches peer production, commons governance, and post-capitalist transition pathways.
• Open Source Ecology: Develops open-source industrial tools and distributed manufacturing systems.
• New Economics Foundation: Produces policy research and public narratives for a people- and planet-centered economy.
• Participatory Economy Project: Explores participatory economic models as alternatives to capitalism and central planning.

Thinkers and Public Intellectuals

• Kate Raworth: Creator of Doughnut Economics; influential in reframing economic success around ecological and social boundaries.
• Michel Bauwens: Founder of the P2P Foundation and major thinker on commons governance and peer production.
• Trebor Scholz: Advocate of platform cooperativism and democratic ownership in the digital economy.
• Gar Alperovitz: Long-time strategist of democratic economy and institutional transformation.

How They Relate to the Transition Framework

• Movement-building allies: Transition Network, RIPESS, The Democracy Collaborative.
• Digital and institutional architecture allies: Platform Cooperativism Consortium, P2P Foundation.
• Policy translation allies: Doughnut Economics Action Lab, New Economics Foundation.
• Productive capacity allies: Open Source Ecology.
• Alternative economic design allies: Participatory Economy Project.

Strategic Conclusion

The Transition framework does not begin from zero. A substantial ecosystem already exists that is challenging core assumptions of the dominant economic paradigm. The strategic opportunity is to connect with these networks and identify where collaboration, translation, pilot projects, or shared research could accelerate the emergence of Transition.