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Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
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?”
Green Books have offered to send, free of charge, copies of The Transition Companion to 12 influential people who we feel would benefit from getting a copy and being introduced to Transition ideas, whether they are in politics, the media, scientists, celebrities, social media or just big ideas people. What is important is that in suggesting someone, we actually have a way to get the book into their hands. To just say “David Cameron” without a surefire route to actually getting the book to him isn’t much use. So please, post your suggestions below, and some indication of your confidence that a copy could actually reach them, and when we’ve a good list we’ll go through them and choose some. If you felt like making a donation, using the donate button below, it would increase the number of people we could send copies to. Thanks.
Today sees the launch of three exciting new developments and outputs from Transition Network, the results of many months of work, that finally emerge blinking into the daylight. We are sure that they will greatly deepen your understanding of Transition, bring depth and richness to your work, re-inspire and energise you. They represent a radical shift in how Transition is understood and communicated.
They are, in no particular order, the book ‘The Transition Companion’, the online version of the ingredients and tools of Transition, and a beautifully designed set of Ingredients and Tools Cards which can be used to better understand all this. Together, they represent a sea-change in how we understand what Transition is and how to do it. So, let’s have a look at those things one-by-one.
Thursday is the proper launch date for The Transition Companion, and some other exciting new developments will be unveiled on Thursday too. You’re going to love them. In the meantime, here is the wonderful foreword for the book written by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
“Observing the growth of the Transition movement over the past five years has been inspiring in so many ways. While governments and big business struggle (to put it politely) to tackle the enormous environmental issues that face us, this movement has forged ahead with its collective bid to find a creative, passionate response to the question ‘where do we go from here?’
With The Transition Companion formally released this Thursday, it’s time for another ‘Story of Transition in 10 Objects’ film, this time about the Green Valley Grocer in Slaithwaite. It’s one of the stories people particularly enjoyed from September’s round up.
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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Here is another review of ‘The Transition Companion’, this time by Jeremy Williams at Make Wealth History.
