TRANSITION RESOURCES

[Michael Brownlee]

Here is a listing of key books, films and websites related to Transition.

BOOKS

• The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, Rob Hopkins
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, James Howard Kunstler
• World Made by Hand: A Novel of the Post-Oil Future, James Howard Kunstler
• The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, John Michael Greer
• Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, Dmitry Orlov
• Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change, Pat Murphy
• Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Paul Hawken
• The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Richard Heinberg
• Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, Richard Heinberg
• The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse, Richard Heinberg
• Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines, Richard Heinberg
• High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis, Julian Darley
• Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty, Daniel Lerch
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
• Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front, Sharon Astyk
• The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times, Albert Bates
• Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community, Heather Flores
• Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our World, Ourselves, Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown
• When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, Matthew Stein
• The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis, Greg Pahl
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
• The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, Thomas Homer-Dixon
• Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, Mark Lynas
• Peak Oil Prep: Prepare for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Collapse, Mike Winter
• The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology), Joseph Tainter
• Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, William Cantor

FILMS

• The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
• Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
• Crude Impact
• Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
• Dr. Albert Bartlett: Sustainability 101—Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis
• What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
• David Holmgren on Relocalisation: How Peak Oil Can Lead to Permaculture
• The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
• The Future of Food
• King Corn
• The Real Dirt on Farmer John
• Kilowatt Ours
• An Inconvenient Truth

WEBSITES

Transition Colorado: http://transitioncolorado.ning.com
Transition U.S.: http://transitionus.ning.com
Transition Boulder County: www.transitionbouldercounty.org
Transition Network: www.transitiontowns.org
Rob Hopkins' blog: www.transitionculture.org
Post Carbon Institute: www.postcarbon.org
Post Carbon Cities: www.postcarboncities.net
Relocalization Network: www.relocalize.net
Global Public Media: www.globalpublicmedia.com
Peak Moment TV: www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv
Association for the Study of Peak Oil USA: www.aspo-usa.com
Energy Bulletin: www.energybulletin.net
The Oil Drum: www.theoildrum.com
Sharon Astyk’s blog: www.sharonastyk.com
Dmitry Orlov’s blog: www.cluborlov.blogspot.com
James Howard Kunstler’s blog: www.jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com
Richard Heinberg’s Museletter: www.richardheinberg.com/museletter/current
John Michael Greer’s blog: www.thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com

[Donald Studinski]

Please consider adding The Crash Course (film) and the web site associated with the Crash Course, www.chrismartenson.com You can find this referenced as essencial viewing on Rob Hopkins blog. I have DVDs of the Crash Course. I will make one available for your library if you have a library going. Thanks ... Don