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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hey all –
here’s a little bit on Rob Hopkin’s new book <i>The Transition
Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience,</i> from my blog post
yesterday … I plan to blog about what I’m learning as I read it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Are you ready for the transition
vision?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sometime
in early 2006 I read about Rob Hopkins and the Transition movement in Ireland
at <a href="http://treehugger.com/" target="_blank">treehugger.com</a>, and
that led me to Hopkin's blog and Web site, <a
href="http://transitionculture.org/" target="_blank">transitionculture.org</a>,<a
href="http://transitionculture.org/" target="_blank"></a> one of the links
you'll see in <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Useful Web
Stuff</span></em> 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>What I
discovered at <a href="http://transitionculture.org/" target="_blank">transitionculture.org</a>
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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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, <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The
Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience. </span></em>I <a
href="http://thinklady.typepad.com/thinklady/WindowsLiveWriter/image_1.png"></a>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 <a
href="http://thinklady.typepad.com/thinklady/2008/08/are-you-ready-f.html">here</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'>:::
shauna </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>lawyer</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";
color:black'> struby</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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