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8 Nov 2011
Here is another review of ‘The Transition Companion’, this time by Jeremy Williams at Make Wealth History.
If you’re a transitioner yourself, chances are you’re well aware of this book. You may even have a hand in it somewhere, having sent in a story, a photo or a quote. You may have read the draft chapters as they were posted on Rob’s Transition Culture blog, or suggested a title. The Transition Companion: Making your community more resilient in uncertain times is the follow-up to The Transition Handbook. Where the first book proposed a movement and speculated about how it might be created, the second reports on a dynamic and growing world of Transition. It is packed with examples, stories, experience and friendly advice, gathered together from Transition groups around the UK and as far afield as Brazil and South Africa. It is a crowd-sourced answer to the book’s central question: “What would it look like if the best responses to peak oil and climate change came not from committees and acts of parliament, but from you and me and the people around us?”
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19 Oct 2011
Here is a review of ‘The Transition Companion’ by Maddy Harland from the new edition of Permaculture Magazine. You can download a pdf of the page on which it appears here.
Transition is now a worldwide grassroots movement that looks climate change and peak oil squarely in the face and dismisses the utter impossibility of endless economic growth on a planet of finite resources. It offers community based solutions to help people in villages, towns and cities adapt to the inevitable challenges of the oncoming reality of profound economic and social change unflinchingly and with a good degree of humility and good cheer. It’s a collection of recipes for building community, environmental regeneration, relocalised economies and so much more.
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5 Sep 2011
I have something to share in this post which I think is hugely exciting and which I think you are going to enjoy. A while ago I was sent a book called ‘SPIN farming basics: how to grow commercially on under an acre’ by Wally Satzewich and Roxanne Christensen. The book describes itself as a “step-by-step learning guide to the sub-acre production system that makes it possible to gross $50,000+ from a half-acre”. SPIN, which stands for ‘Small Plot Intensive’ (their website is here), has the feel of an important, big, and timely idea, and it is one that fits into Transition beautifully. So what is it?
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28 Jun 2011
When I reported here the recent death of my dear friend Dr. David Fleming I wrote, “and he never did get his bloody book finished!” Everyone who knew David will have seen one or other iteration of his book, whether it was known as ‘The Lean Economy’ or ‘Lean Logic‘, tucked under his arm, adorned with much scribbling and crossing out. Following his death, his family and friends have set to the task of making sure that his life’s work does finally see the light of day, and I’m delighted to announce that copies will soon be available. I’m delighted, as would he have been, to know that his insights, his humour and his brilliance, are now more widely available. Here is the text from a flyer I was recently sent announcing the publication. I’ve already ordered mine…
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6 Jun 2011
Dave Hamilton’s new book ‘Grow your food for free (well almost)’ was published a couple of weeks ago, and is rather wonderful (see this review, for instance). It shows how gardening can be done on the cheap, by recycling materials creatively and making the most of what you have. Organised season-by-season, it is packed with inspired ideas for avoiding the expensive solutions suggested at garden centres and in gardening magazines, and growing great produce on the cheap. It is bright, colourful and fun, but packed with ideas. Thanks to the generosity of those good people at Green Books, we have 5 copies to give away for free in our wildly challenging gardening-themed competition below. Fingers on buzzers, here we go….
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