Transition Handbook. Creating Local Sustainable Communities Beyond Oil Dependency

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Finch Publishing
Publisher Place: Lane Cove
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 278 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is some light reading wear to bottom corner.

Publishers Description: Around the world, societies are facing the prospect of a future with dwindling oil reserves, an unstable climate and unpredictable food production. The Transition Handbook provides accounts of how individuals have responded with their local communities to the twin threats of peak oil and climate change. It explains how we can 'transition' from fossil-fuel based communities to ones that are more self-reliant and generate less carbon emissions, and shows how such changes will result in a greater development of local food, local economies, local water harvesting and energy generation - and so create more sustainable communities in the longer term. It includes detailed accounts of transition initiatives in the UK and profiles of Australian and New Zealand initiatives currently underway.

ISBN: 9781921462009