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 The Transition Handbook. From oil dependency to local resilience. Rob Hopkins,
Green Books 2008
Pbck; 240pp
Now available in directly from Transition Town Brixton for £10 - a savings of almost £3 off the cover price. Come get one at our next event.
** NOW ALSO AVAILABLE AT BRIXTON WHOLEFOODS **
The concept of energy descent, and of the Transition approach, is a simple one: that the future with less oil
could be preferable to the present, but only if
sufficient creativity and imagination are applied
early enough in the design of this transition.
Here's what people are saying about The Transition Handbook, out now.
This book by the visionary architect of the Transition movement is a
must-read labelled immediate. Growing numbers with their microscopes
trained on peak oil are convinced that we have very little time to
engineer resilience into our communities before the last energy crisis
descends. This issue should be of urgent concern to every person who
cares about their children, and all who hope there is a viable future
for human civilisation post-petroleum.
Jeremy Leggett, Founder of SolarCentury and author of The Carbon War and Half Gone
Click here for a review of this book by Graham Strouts on Zone 5
The Transition concept is one of the big ideas of our time. Peak oil
and climate change can so often leave one feeling depressed and
disempowered. What I love about the Transition approach is that it is
inspirational, harnessing hope instead of guilt, and optimism instead
of fear. The Transition Handbookwill come to be seen as one of the
seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age and which offered
a gentle helping hand in the transition to a more local, more human and
ultimately more nourishing future.
Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association
This is much more than just a book. It is a manual for a movement. And
not just any movement, but one which in avoiding the civilisational
collapse threatened by the twin crises of peak oil and climate change
could prove to be the most important social force humanity has ever
seen.
Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees
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