The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times
by Rob Hopkins and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Websites
Transition Palo Alto
transitionpaloalto.org
Booklist from Transition US
http://www.transitionus.org/resources/reading
Transition Culture
transitionculture.org/
Blog with news and discussion by Transition leaders, including Rob Hopkins.
Transition U.S.
http://www.transitionus.org/
“Nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, support, training, and networking for Transition Initiatives across the United States.” The official organization
Media on Transition
transitionpaloalto.org/2009/12/13/media-on-transition/
Transition Documentary now online (free!)
transitionpaloalto.org/2009/12/14/transition-documentary-now-online-free/
Transition
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Rob Hopkins (founder of the Transition Movement)
transitionculture.org/shop/the-transition-handbook/
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_transition_handbook:paperback (US publisher Chelsea Green)
The starting point for understanding the way this movement has grown over the last few years from an experiment in Kinsale, Ireland, via Tansition Town Totnes to an international phenomenon.
The Transition Timeline –
For a local, resilient future
Shaun Chamberlin
transitionculture.org/shop/the-transition-timeline
A map of the landscape we have to find a way through. ” A hugely valuable manual…use it to change your world.” Caroline Lucas MEP
Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change
Pat Murphy
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3992
Peak Oil
Richard Heinberg
The Party’s Over
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3878
PowerDown
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3862
Peak Everything
Waking Up to the Century of Declines
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/4066
Simplicity
Less is More
Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness
Cecile Andrews and Wanda Urbanska (Local author
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/4046
Slow is Beautiful
New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
Cecile Andrews (Local author
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3928
Affluenza – John de Graff et al
Escape from Affluenza
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/
Affluenza is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption. (PBS)
Small is Possible
Life in a Local Economy
Lyle Estill
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3993
Food
Cool Cuisine – Taking the Bite out of Global Warming
Laura Stec with Eugene Cordero, PhD (Local author
http://www.globalwarmingdiet.org/book
How to grow more vegetables than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine
John Jeavons.
“If there is one book that has dramatically changed the way people garden, it is How To Grow More Vegetables*, * than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine.
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter
June 2009, Penguin Press
Climate
An Inconvenient Truth (video)
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Lester R. Brown (climate change)
http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/pb4
More on Oil
The End of Oil:
On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Paul Roberts
the-end-of-oil.com/
Out of Gas: The End of the Age Of Oil
David Goodstein
(Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech)
pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v38/oil.html
A Thousand Barrels a Second:
The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World
Peter Tertzakian
business-oriented overview
http://www.1000barrels.com/
Beyond Oil:
The View from Hubbert’s Peak
Professor Kenneth S. Deffeyes
http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
The Tyranny of Oil
The World’s Most Powerful Industry–and What We Must Do to Stop It
Antonia Juhasz
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061434501/The_Tyranny_of_Oil/index.aspx
Transport
Two Billion Cars
Driving Toward Sustainability
Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon
Lives Per Gallon
The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
Terry Tamminen
http://www.livespergallon.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.livespergallon.org/images/stories/pdf/tamminenpr.pdf
Divorce Your Car!
Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
Katie Alvord
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3683
Other
The End of Suburbia
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
When Technology Fails
Matthew Stein (reskilling)
http://www.whentechfails.com/
The Long Emergency
Surviving the Convering Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
James Howard Kunstler
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency
http://www.kunstler.com/books.php/#TLE
Ishmael
The Story of B
My Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
http://www.ishmael.org/index1.cfm
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs & Steel
Collapse – how societies choose to fail or survive
The Great Turning: from Empire to Earth Community
Korten, D.C. (2006)
http://www.davidkorten.org/GTbook
A Prosperous Way Down: principles and policies,
Odum, H.T. & Odum, E.C. (2001)
University Press of Colorado.
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/3813
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
David Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture Concept.
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/permaculture
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Dmitry Orlov
http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3991
Rather than focusing on doom and gloom, Reinventing Collapse suggests that there is room for optimism if we focus our efforts on personal and cultural transformation. Presented with characteristic dry humor,
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23259
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil (co-writer and co-producter)
