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A really simple but interesting book
It's a simply writeen book, but interesting and attractive. It presents aspects of everyday life and its importance on environmental impact.
How we can modify our behaviour for mitigation of climate change
The Transition Towns movement has the potential for bringing together disparate groups working for sustainability into an effective campaigning body but its effectiveness is limited at the moment because of lack of awareness of its aims and objectives. In the Transition Handbook, Rob Hopkins explains climate change in simple terms and provides examples of how groups and communities can adapt to mitigate climate change. Hopkins provides the manual that the Transition Towns movement has been waiting for.
inspiring 
I just finished The Transition Handbook from Rob Hopkins. I expected it to be a useful guide for developing a transition town. Not only was it an extremely useful guide, but also an inspiring read. In fact one of the best books of any category I've read in while.
Can't wait to get TT Bamberg started!...
read this now before it's too late
By the year 2015 our future on Earth will have been sealed. If we get our act together we can avert run away climate change and overheating. If not, we're toast.
Rob Hopkins' book is a very readable and frank look at where we stand today, and the momentous opportunity we have in our hands to shape a better future. It's a handbook, so it's full of good practical advice and vision.
The Transition movement may be the most powerful force for change of our times, I can't implore you strongly enough to look into this.
a "compelling and engaging vision of a post carbon world"
`The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience` is the guidebook to the Transition Towns movement. It explains the problems of peak oil and climate change, presents re-localization and resilience as responses that will transition us to a post-carbon future, and describes how you can set up your own transition initiative.
All of this is divided into three broad sections, `the head', `the heart', and `the hands'. First, the problem, and Hopkins explains peak oil and climate change in simple and straightforward terms. He avoids the controversies, and focuses on the local - these are things that will affect each of us, in our every day lives.
`The heart' deals with motivation, and Hopkins draws on addiction therapy and psychology to talk about how people perceive threats, and how they handle change. The environmental movement is failing because it lacks a "compelling and engaging vision of a post carbon world". Instead,the Transition Towns model us a positive articulation of the future. It captures the imagination, empowers and energises.
`The Hands' gets down to the practical details, from the principles of Permaculture, how to write a press release, working with a local council, films to show, the experiences those who have gone before. There are sections on running productive meetings or discussions with large numbers of people. It's practical and realistic, and really does feel like a handbook or a manual. (I should also mention that from a design point of view, The Transition Handbook is a nice piece of work. It's big and square and has wide margins that invite you to scribble notes.)
Transition Towns is the rarest of things, being a response to climate change and peak oil that is positive and proactive. "Too often environmentalists try to engage people in action by painting apocalyptic visions of the future as a way of scaring them into action" says Hopkins. "What would happen if we came at this the other way round, painting a picture of the future so enticing that people instinctively feel drawn towards it."
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