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List of Useful Transition Town Resources
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11:09 pm
November 10, 2009


haydn

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Post edited 5:13 am – November 11, 2009 by haydn

There have been a lot of great suggestions for resources.  At the 10-11 October meeting we had a whiteboard full of them, try complementing your reading list with some of these:

Books:
Soul of a Citizen (Book), Paul Roegat Loeb – Living with conviction in a cynical time
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Climate Code Red – David Spratt, Phillip Sutton
HEAT – George Monbiot – How to stop the world from burning
Re-inventing collapse – Dmitry Orlov
Cradle to Cradle – Bill McDonough
Waste Equals Food – Michael Braungart
The Long Descent – John Michael Green
The ecotechnic future – John Michael Green
The Transition Timeline – Shuan Chamberlain, Green Books 2009
Outdoor Classrooms – Janet Millington, Carolyn Nutall
The state of the world – by World watch institute
Affluenza – the all consuming epidemic, John de Graaf
Metaphors We Live By – Mark Johnson, George Lakoff
Moral Imagination – Mark Johnson

Futures Scenarios (Books):
Questioning the Future – (The Futurist 4 P's) – Sohail Inayatullah – Tamkang Press
The knowledge base of futures studies 2005 – professional edition
World – made by hand, James Kunstler
News from Nowhere, William Morns
The Great Turning, David Korten from Empire to Earch community

Web:
The Oil Drum
Peak Moment (U-tube – programs from the US – includes TT, lots of useful stories)
Story of Stuff (web)
http://www.wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup – for the feeback loops
http://www.aaee.org.au

Philosophy:
The Seven Essene Mirrors to Relationships
The 3 (4) P's of Futurist Studies:
– Possible
– Probable
– Plausible
– Preferable

Music:
Lilly Allen song: “The Fear”

Here's a snapshot of the whiteboard:

Whiteboard - Resources
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5:25 pm
April 21, 2010


John Symond

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Post edited 10:27 pm – April 21, 2010 by John Symond
Post edited 4:18 am – April 28, 2010 by John Symond

I have recently begun a book buying project I have named JOAD

This acronym stands for “Joint Ownership And Donation”. Until now I have only made this known to some of my friends. 

It works like this:

  1. A small number of people, usually three so far, agree to buy a specific book that interests them
  2. They each read it in turn, hopefully in a short time frame

  3. They agree who they would like to give the book to, and give it

I expect we may give the books to any of the following

  • An activist group library
  • An individual we know of, who could be expected to make good use of it to benefit the community
  • A public library
  • A recognised charity

So far we have four “buying partners” and we have bought three books. We are in the process of reading them. 

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