Resources
Short Films and Clips
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Recommended films:
End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion & The Collapse of the American Dream ,
Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature
Power of Community – how Cuba survived Peak Oil
Crude Impact
A Crude Awakening: the oil crash
Money As Debt
11th Hour (produced by Leonardo DiCaprio)
What A Way To Go: life at the end of the empire
Manufactured Landscapes
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? – BBC Horizon Documentary about population and resources (available from TTT office on 01803 867358)
Transition 1.0 and 2.0
Further reading:
The Transition Handbook – by Rob Hopkins
The Last Oil Shock – by David Strahan
Future Scenarios – by David Holmgren
Rob Hopkins “Energy Descent Pathways: Evaluating potential responses to Peak Oil”, self published MSc thesis.
On Peak Oil:
ASPO – Association for the Study of Peak Oil -Source of much data & inspiration and where Peak Oil awareness started.
The Hirsch Report – produced for the US government in 2005. Was almost lost until it gained prominence in 2006. Remarkable for the unequivocal call to urgent action in order to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil.
Books by Richard Heinberg:
‘The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies.’ ‘Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World’. ‘The Oil Depletion Protocol : A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse ‘.
Publications which are wholly or partly based on the experience of TTT.
The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience. Rob Hopkins.
Local Sustainable Homes: how to make them happen in your community. Chris Bird
Local Food: how to make it happen in your community: Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkins
Transition in Action: Totnes and District 2030: an Energy Descent Action Plan: Jacqi Hodgson & Rob Hopkins (all published by Green Books...).
Research published about TTT by visiting academics.
Pir, A. (2009) In Search of a Resilient Food System: A Qualitative Study of the Transition Town Totnes Food Group. Dissertation for MPhil in Culture, Environment and Sustainability. Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.
Climate Change:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world’s most authoritative body assessing Climate Change
A commentary by working climate scientists on breaking climate news stories
Hadley Centre – the Met Office’s bureau for researching the potential effects of Climate Change. www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/
With thanks to the Transition Network Online Primer
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