[OKC] energy transition vision

[Shauna Struby]

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imageHey all - here's a little bit on Rob Hopkin's new book The Transition
Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience, from my blog post
yesterday . I plan to blog about what I'm learning as I read it.

Are you ready for the transition vision?

Sometime in early 2006 I read about Rob Hopkins and the Transition movement
in Ireland at treehugger.com <http://treehugger.com/> , and that led me to
Hopkin's blog and Web site, transitionculture.org
<http://transitionculture.org/> , <http://transitionculture.org/>  one of
the links you'll see in Useful Web Stuff on this blog.  At the time I
remember feeling so relieved to read his encouraging yet realistic take on
the future of life I almost cried. I promptly bookmarked the site and have
returned again and again when I needed just a tad more promising outlook on
where the world is headed -- something besides the dystopian vision that
often seems more prevalent. 

What I discovered at transitionculture.org <http://transitionculture.org/>
is a knowledge-based, user-friendly approach to the end of cheap oil,
climate change, and a future that seems increasingly uncertain. Rather than
give in to dire predictions, despair or doom, or stick his head in the sand
and hope for a miracle, Hopkins has staked a claim in the hopeful realm of
practical thinking, planning, organization, action, and vision ... yes
vision with a capital V! I've downloaded some of his resources from time to
time and found them useful, but longed for a more comprehensive,
step-by-step guide to transitioning communities from gross over-dependence
on fossil fuels to self-reliance. 

Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it. Earlier this year I
found out Hopkins had just such a book in the works, The Transition
Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience. I
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immediately pre-ordered it, fingers tapping impatiently (that was March or
April) for September when it would supposedly print. Something must have
moved the print date up -- I was thrilled when the book arrived last Friday,
and I can hardly wait to delve into it. It appears to be everything I'd hope
for and more . :::: more here
<http://thinklady.typepad.com/thinklady/2008/08/are-you-ready-f.html> . 

::: shauna lawyer struby

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