About
World in Transition was founded by one person and is developed with feedback from readers and reviewers. There is no organization behind it, no funding source, no political affiliation. It exists because the ideas and the evidence deserve to be accessible to everyone.
A note on who we are
World in Transition was founded by one person and is developed with feedback from readers and reviewers. The ideas were developed over many years, drawing on science, history, and a willingness to follow the evidence even when it meant abandoning earlier assumptions.
It is built to grow beyond its founder: contributions, critique and collaboration are welcome, along the lines of open-source projects. Nothing here asks you to trust a person. Every claim links to its source, and every correction is logged publicly.
We are not leaders. We are not gurus. We found a path through the evidence and we're sharing what we found. If it holds up to scrutiny, it will spread on its own merits. If it doesn't, it should be corrected or discarded.
The books were written under the pen name Vittorio Hugo Svoboda. The original transition strategy involved a coordinated, overnight shift — an approach that could have provoked retaliation from entrenched interests with enormous resources to protect. A pseudonym was a practical precaution. The strategy has since evolved toward gradual, transparent, community-based change, which substantially reduces that risk. We mention this because transparency is a core operating principle of this project, and the choice of a pen name deserves an honest explanation.
This site was built with the help of AI tools, for research, drafting, design and translation. The ideas, the direction and every decision are the founder's own, and nothing is published without the founder's review and approval. Claims are checked against their sources, and when we get something wrong, we correct it publicly.
World in Transition is independent. It is not affiliated with Transition Network or the Transition Towns movement, or with the Foundation for a World in Transition (worldintransition.org).
If you want to help — with translations, expertise, ideas, or just by sharing what resonates with you — you're welcome. There's no form to fill out and nothing to sign.
What Transition is — and what it is not
A clear statement of purpose. Not a political party, not a religion, not a product, not a belief system. What it actually is, in plain language.
Operating principles
Nonviolence. Transparency. Evidence over ideology. Self-correction. Respect for every person's dignity and autonomy. These aren't slogans — they're the rules we hold ourselves to.
Evolution of the approach
The transition strategy described in the books has been revised — from overnight transformation to incremental community-building. Why the change strengthens the work, not weakens it.
Privacy
We don't track you. We don't collect your data. We don't want your email address. Here's exactly what happens — and what doesn't — when you visit this site.
Official addresses
Every genuine address, mirror and contact for the project, so you can recognise real copies and spot impersonation.
Corrections
Every factual correction we have made, with dates. We would rather show our mistakes than hide them.
A note on scope and cultural context
This project is intended to reach the entire world, but it has to start somewhere, and it cannot be localized to every country and language at once. The United States is a natural starting point — one of the most prominent and globally impactful countries, currently undergoing a late-stage oligarchic capture of its democratic constitutional government. The structural dynamics visible there — wealth concentration, institutional erosion, manufactured scarcity — are present in most countries, even if the specifics differ. The analysis, examples, and language on this site currently reflect that US origin.
Localization is an ongoing project, not an afterthought. The site will be adapted to other English-speaking countries, then to other languages and cultural contexts — not by imposing one culture's framing on another, but by working with people in each context to develop analysis and language that reflects their own realities, issues, strengths, and ways of doing things. Every country and culture has its own structures of power, its own forms of resistance, and its own wisdom about what works. We are not here to overwrite any of that.