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The Transition Handbook

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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins.

Published on 6th March 2008.

http://www.DODGY TAX AVOIDERS.co.uk/Transition-Hand ... 758&sr=8-1
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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.

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 Handbook will 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.
Please accept my apologises if this book has been mentioned before. :)
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Has anyone read this yet? I've not bought it yet but am considering doing so.
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Eternal Sunshine wrote:Has anyone read this yet? I've not bought it yet but am considering doing so.
:oops: Thanks for the reminder, it's been on my shelf for a couple of months now...
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Make sure you let me know what it's like then. :D
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I read it almost as soon as it came out, and was impressed. Couldn't get my act together to write a review though, and now I'd have to read it again to write one!
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It's a must read, and a real antidote.

Only ?9.07 from DODGY TAX AVOIDERS... (buy 2, sell one on (you need those aware neighbours...), and get free P&P).

There are 75 Transition Towns as of now, but the number is growing fast even though it's not trivial to apply..., and over 600 'mulling it over'...
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Post by Vortex »

Flicked through it at Waterstones last weekend.

I don't think it will grab anyone who doesn't know the topic already.

Over busy pages, less than punchy writing.

It simply doesn't reach out and enthrall the casual book browsing public.

It also is quite large, which means it can't sit on the bookshop shelves properly.

Overall, low retail wow factor.

(This of course does NOT mean that the content is poor - I simply feel that only the already committed will be likely to buy this book)
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