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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 333.79 EAN: 9781900322188 ISBN: 1900322188 Label: Chelsea Green Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: September 15, 2008 Publisher: Chelsea Green Release Date: August 10, 2008 Studio: Chelsea Green Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencies to keep money in the local area. There are now over 30 “transition towns” in the UK, Australia and New Zealand with more joining as the idea takes off. They provide valuable experience and lessons-learned for those of us on this side of the Atlantic. With little proactive thinking at the governmental level, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your town is not a transition town, this upbeat guide offers you the tools for starting the process. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Transition TownsThis is a great book for anyone who would like to work on self reliance as a community. I am amazed at how many people are waking up to the fact that it's time to take control of your life instead of letting big companies who only care about their profit margin or being in control of the worlds food supply. This book is a guide to help local communities with communities gardens, support you local shops, how to set up meetings, how to find other people who feel the same way. I think it's a great ... Read More Rating: - Not a Problem but an OpportunityRob Hopkins has tackled a complex inter-relationship between tow vitally important subjects in a completely new way. Looking at the problems of Climate Change and Peak oil together shows him, and then allows us to see, that relocalisation is the key to producing not just the answer to our problems, but the kind of high quality low consumption lifestyle we need in the future. He makes the future an attractive and exciting place in which to live and thus allows us to escape from the apocalyptic survivalist ... Read More Rating: - A 'must read' for environmental activists, city administrators, and governmental policy makersAll elements of the American political spectrum now agree on the importance of getting America off its dependence on foreign oil. Fueling this agreement is a collective awareness of the deleterious impact fossil fuels have upon the environment, the crippling impact of high fuel prices upon the American economy, as well as the national security implications of being so dependant upon the occasionally hostile foreign nations supplying our oil imports. Rob Hopkins draws upon his many years as a teacher of permaculture ... Read More Rating: - One of the Most Important Handbooks of Our TimeRob Hopkins writes about the context for starting a transition town and then follows with step-by-step instructions on the action steps involved with bringing awareness and hope to communities. Transition towns spring from a grassroots initiative to do something positive and cooperative in response to the impending triple crisis of peak oil, climate change and global economic collapse. It all starts with awareness and ends in an energy decent action plan. Every community is different, so Rob is very careful ... Read More Rating:  - An accessible, smart guide to a resilient low-carbon futureThere is a powerful current in our contemporary, post-industrial culture that is arguing for a simpler, more sustainable alternative to our wasteful, environmentally damaging way of life. Proselytisers rely on a varying mix of three sets of arguments: the environmental challenge posed by climate change, the energy supply challenge posed by peak oil and, finally, the spiritual challenge emerging from the newest science on personal wellbeing (in a nutshell: beyond a certain point more money and stuff doesn't make us happier.) ... Read More 
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