North Star Transition

Our mission: accelerate systems change.

North Star Transition is a not-for-profit that helps people and organisations align and create positive change in the environment, the economy and society - recognising that these areas are interdependent.

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News and Insight
Embedding NbS within infrastructure projects
Lea Jordan-Tank
Embedding NbS within infrastructure projects
Lea Jordan-Tank

Lea Jordan-Tank explores how the barriers that block investment into Nature-based Solutions can be tackled. The most effective path forward could be embedding solutions into commercially viable business models.

Lea Jordan-Tank
Monocultures and the law: how our legal structures undermine our society’s response to crisis
Vicky Vanderstichele
Monocultures and the law: how our legal structures undermine our society’s response to crisis
Vicky Vanderstichele

Vicky Vanderstichele explores how our legal structures mirror agricultural monocultures and why that creates problems in our age of high volatility and crisis.

Vicky Vanderstichele
Infra decisions: why water cannot solve water’s problems
Jyoti Banerjee
Infra decisions: why water cannot solve water’s problems
Jyoti Banerjee

The UK’s water companies proposed spending billions on nature-based solutions (NBS) in their last five-year spending plans. We will be lucky to see a tiny fraction of that number actually get spent on nature. Jyoti Banerjee gets behind the data to ask why infrastructure fails the nature and resilience test.

Jyoti Banerjee
Transforming farming towards profitability and resilience
Vicky Vanderstichele
Transforming farming towards profitability and resilience
Vicky Vanderstichele

North Star Transition joins forces with the Royal Agricultural Society of England and Innovation for Agriculture. Vicky Vanderstichele reports on our new partnership.

Vicky Vanderstichele
Fens Transition Lab - a video introduction
Jyoti Banerjee
Fens Transition Lab - a video introduction
Jyoti Banerjee

September 4th marked the launch of Fens Transition Lab, Phase 2. Jyoti Banerjee introduces the video made of the proceedings.

Jyoti Banerjee
Phase 2 of Fens Transition Lab starts with wide engagement
Lea Jordan-Tank
Phase 2 of Fens Transition Lab starts with wide engagement
Lea Jordan-Tank

As Phase 2 of Fens Transition Lab launches across the east of England, Lea Jordan-Tank asks her colleagues at North Star Transition what they are hoping to achieve.

Lea Jordan-Tank
New update report from Wye-Usk Transition Lab
Jyoti Banerjee
New update report from Wye-Usk Transition Lab
Jyoti Banerjee

After more than two years of activities and over 200 stakeholders, where has Wye-Usk Transition Lab got to? Jyoti Banerjee introduces the Sept 2025 progress report.

Jyoti Banerjee
Fera Science and North Star Transition partner to drive systemic change
Vicky Vanderstichele
Fera Science and North Star Transition partner to drive systemic change
Vicky Vanderstichele

Vicky Vanderstichele lays out the thinking behind the announcement of a partnership between Fera and North Star Transition to drive systemic change initiatives.

Vicky Vanderstichele
An agroforestry transition in the Fens
Matthew Phan
An agroforestry transition in the Fens
Matthew Phan

Stephen Briggs is helping design and lead a nation-wide farm transition plan. Matthew Phan caught up with him in his Fens base to hear how Stephen has fared in transitioning his own farm.

Matthew Phan
Stale to fresh: shifting how water companies work
Vicky Vanderstichele
Stale to fresh: shifting how water companies work
Vicky Vanderstichele

UK water companies need to change if they are to operate successfully in the long-term, even while the industry around them changes. Vicky Vanderstichele outlines three key areas of change water companies need to address.

Vicky Vanderstichele
Media
The Wider Lens - Episode 6: Financing a Transition
The Wider Lens - Episode 6: Financing a Transition

In the final episode of the first season of The Wider Lens, Jyoti Banerjee and Jenny Scott tackle one of the biggest questions of all. How do we finance transition? They explore the investment gap, what it would take for finance to support regenerative systems, and how good transition plans become investable.

The Wider Lens - Episode 5: The tools for a transition
The Wider Lens - Episode 5: The tools for a transition

In Episode 5 of The Wider Lens, Jyoti Banerjee is joined by Stephen Backhouse to explore the practical tools that support real systems change. From deep listening to connecting unlikely allies, they discuss how these tools are used across corporate, national, and landscape transitions, and beyond North Star Transition’s work.

The Wider Lens - Episode 4: Transitioning a landscape
The Wider Lens - Episode 4: Transitioning a landscape

In Episode 4 of The Wider Lens, Jyoti Banerjee and Jenny Scott explore what it takes to transition a landscape, where ecology, livelihoods, governance, and finance intersect.

The Wider Lens - Episode 3: Transitioning a Nation
The Wider Lens - Episode 3: Transitioning a Nation

In Episode 3 of The Wider Lens, Jyoti Banerjee and Jenny Scott turn their attention to governments, one of the most complex systems of all. Drawing on North Star Transition’s work with the Wales Net Zero Commission, they explore why national transitions are so challenging and what lessons might help unlock progress elsewhere.

The Wider Lens - Episode 2: Transitioning a Corporate
The Wider Lens - Episode 2: Transitioning a Corporate

Why are corporate and organisational transitions so widely discussed and yet so hard to achieve? In Episode 2 of The Wider Lens, Jyoti Banerjee and Jenny Scott explore what it really takes for businesses to move from degenerative to regenerative models.

Launching The Wider Lens - Episode 1: The Secret Sauce of Transition
Launching The Wider Lens - Episode 1: The Secret Sauce of Transition

We’re excited to launch The Wider Lens, a new podcast from North Star Transition. In Episode 1: The Secret Sauce of Transition, hosts Jyoti Banerjee and Jenny Scott explore what “transition” really means and what it takes to move from degenerative systems to ones that enable life to thrive and humanity to flourish.

Video: Introducing Fens Transition Lab
Video: Introducing Fens Transition Lab

Wondering what Fens Transition Lab is all about? Or what it is hoping to achieve? Wonder no more. This video, prepared by our friends at Anglian Water, covers the launch of Phase 2 of Fens Transition Lab, part of the Future Fens: Integrated Adaptation programme convened by Anglian Water.

Video: Introducing North Star Transition
Video: Introducing North Star Transition

So what does North Star Transition do? Jyoti Banerjee introduces our work in regenerating landscapes, organisations, and even nations.

Video: How a Transition Lab works
Video: How a Transition Lab works

Jyoti Banerjee, CEO and co-founder, explains how we have used the Transition Lab concept across the Wye and Usk catchments.

We need systems change.

Our systems need to adapt to economic crises, increasing inequalities, social breakdown, biodiversity collapse and the climate emergency.

No individual, point-solution or project can bring about the necessary change alone.

North Star Transition accelerates systems change.

We have designed a process based on listening and dialogue that helps the different players in a system identify their problems, understand their root-causes, and define the improvements they seek. We then tap into their shared knowledge and experiences to co-create solutions and find the resources and strategies to make them real.

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Jyoti Banerjee, CEO and co-founder, explains how we have used the Transition Lab concept across the Wye and Usk catchments.

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