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If your town is not yet a Transition Town, here is guidance for making it one. We have little time, and much to accomplish Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, California, author of Power Down
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We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most people don't want to think about what happens when the oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive effect. They can lead to the rebirth of local communities, which will generate their own fuel, food and housing. They can encourage the development of local currencies, to keep money in the local area. They can unleash a local 'skilling-up', so that people have more control over their lives. The Transition Handbook is the manual which will guide communities to begin this 'energy descent' journey. The argument that 'small is inevitable' is upbeat and positive, as well as utterly convincing. Please note, the printed edition of The Transition Handbook is currently out of stock, but it is available as an ebook. The Transition Companion by Rob Hopkins was published in October 2012.
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This review is from: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Paperback)
Concepts like "Climate Change" and "Peak Oil" can cause us to feel confronted by something overwhelmingly hgue we cannot do anything about. The central message of this book is that 'thsi state of mind is not the place to start from if we want to achieve something, do something, create something.' Indeed, by shifting our mind-set we can actually recognize the coming post-cheap oil era as an oppurtunity rather than a threat, and design our future low-energy societies to be thriving, resilient, and abundant-somewhere much better than our current alienated consumer culture based on greed, war, and the myth of perpetual growth.The transition concept emerged from work permaculture designer Rob Hopkins had done with students of Kinsale (Ireland) Further Education College in writing an "Energy Descent Action Plan." This looked at across-the-board creative adpations in the realms of energy production, heatlh, education, economy and agriculture... - Review by Graham Burnett
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This review is from: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Paperback)
The Handbook is a great reference for all and I would hope that more of our political and business leaders would read it.Rob Hopkins does a wonderful job applying the permaculture principles to social organization for the purposes of restoring local community resilience. I was like many who found the hard reality of peak oil overwhelming and very frightening. This handbook offers many ideas and solutions to overcome that pit of despair and downward spiral into apathy and extinction.
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So 2012...a must read and must DO,
This review is from: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Paperback)
If you haven't heard about gas prices and supply, you've been asleep for the past few years and have missed the contoversy about Peak Oil. Now is your time to catch up with The Transition Handbook. Author Rob Hopkins clearly outlines why we need to be concerned, what we as individuals can do about it, and how we can be successful in achieving results. This is not about the end of oil but about the end of CHEAP oil and the impact will change everything about how we live. This is your guide to not only making it through the challenges but actually producing a living environment that will be so much more enjoyable. A good news book that slays the dragon!
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