Rob Hopkins

The Transition Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781907448713
• Artikelnr.: 38445254

Autorenporträt

Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. His achievements include setting up a permaculture course at Kinsale Further Education College, and coordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission. He is author of The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion, among other publications.

Rob is the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He previously served as a Soil Association Trustee, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK's top 100 environmentalists. Rob is the winner of the 2009 Observer Ethical Award in the Grassroots Campaigner category, and was voted the Energy Saving Trust / Guardian's 'Green Community Hero'. He has completed a PhD on Transition and Resilience at Plymouth University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Richard Heinberg
Introduction: tantalising glimpses of resilience
Part 1 - The Head: why peak oil and climate change mean that small is
inevitable
Part 2 - The Heart: why having a positive vision is crucial
Part 3 - The Hands: exploring the transition model for building local
resilience
Some closing thoughts
Appendices
Resources