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The following books are available locally, providing more information on Transition Towns, Climate Change and Peak Oil. If you can't get something from the library, reserve it so we grow a list of books we need duplicates of.
If you buy a book (or DVD) yourself, and think everybody else should read it, donate it to the library. A wonderful gesture is to buy a copy of the "transition town handbook" and donate it to the library.
Author: Rob Hopkins
Publisher:
Summary: The primary text for Transition Towns. How to organise your own transition town, how to plan the process, what you need to know to get the community involved.
Availability: 2 copies at The Bega Valley Library; Candelo Books; purchase online
Author: Jim Merkel
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Summary: a self-help book to guide you towards a sustainable life, lowering your footprint on the earth. Very practical and hands-on.
Availability: soon at the Bega Valley Library.
Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Author: Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyle
Publisher: Island Press
Summary: A planning guide with practical solutions for how our cities need to change as we move into the future.
Availability: soon at the Bega Valley Library
Author: Lucia Capacchione
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Summary: Personal growth with a pair of scissors and some glue - make a map to the life you want to lead!
Availability: soon at the Bega Valley Library
Author: Donella Meadows
Summary:
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Author: Jarred Diamond
Publisher: Penguin Books
Summary: 2005 book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles. Diamond's book deals with "societal collapses involving an environmental component, and in some cases also contributions of climate change, hostile neighbors, and trade partners, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from history (p. 23).
Availability: soon at the Bega Valley Library
Author: Thomas Homer Dixon
Summary:
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
9 steps to transforming your relationship with money and achieving financial independence
Author: Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
Publisher: Penguin Books
Summary: A self-help guide book to getting your finances back on track.
Availability: soon at the Bega Valley Library
Author: Holper Paul and Torok Simon
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Summary: Simple yet effective things you can do in your home, your workplace, your school and elsewhere to limit your carbon emissions.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Author: Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Summary: Covers the theory and methods of group work to help a group acknowledge the problems we live with and to look forward to moving on to a better future through self-change.
Also worth checking out is Joanna Macy's website, which has extra material.
Availability: coming soon to the Bega Valley Library
Author: Daniel Lerch
Publisher: Post Carbon Press
Summary: Very good source book if you are a council or local government
Availability: The Bega Valley Library; and the Bega Valley Shire Council bought 20 copies ... !
Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Summary: This book tells how we might make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: Post Carbon Books
Summary: A protocol that local council, government, business or individuals can adopt to force change to a lower oil dependancy. Each signatory will be expected to reduce their oil dependency by a certain percentage each year.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Editor: Godfrey Boyle
Summary: This book won't tell you how to fit a solar panel or a wind turbine on your roof nor how to connect your panels to the battery but it will tell you about various renewable energy sources and its pros and cons. The book looks at the energy needs on local, national and international scale, not on an individuals scale. Each chapter also has a large list of references for further information.
There are a lot of calculations present so, you'll be able to calculate the area of solar panels required for your needs or prove that off shore wind turbines generate more electricity than on shore ones.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Author: Dan Bartmann and Dan Fink
Summary:
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Author: Paul Mobbs
Summary: This book is an extremely well researched and well considered look at what Peak Oil will mean to the UK. How much land would it take to grow enough biodiesel to run the average family car? 0.85 hectares, or 1 ha. with reduced fertiliser inputs. How long would it take to retrofit all the housing stock in the UK? Given that the building industry could insulate 350,000 buildings per year, to do the 25 million households in the UK would take 71.4 years.
The author looks at how much we need to cut oil consumption - his conclusion is that within 50 years, we will move from an average consumption of 4 tons of oil equivalent (toe.) per person, to 1 ton, a cut of 75%.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Summary: The global oil predicament, climate change, and other shocks to the system, with implications for how we will live in the decades ahead.Written in 2005.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library (donated in 2005 by the Bega Womens Gathering).
Author: Sharon Astyk (check out her blog at www.sharonastyk.com)
Summary: This book explains how we are living beyond our means with or without a peak oil/climate change crisis and that, either way, we must learn to place our families and local communities at the centre of our thinking once again. The author presents strategies to create stronger homes, better health and a richer family life and to - live comfortably with an uncertain energy supply
- prepare children for a hotter, lower energy, less secure world
- survive and thrive in an economy in crisis, and
- maintain a kitchen garden to supply basic food needs.
Most importantly, readers will discover that depletion can lead to abundance, and the anxiety of these uncertain times can be turned into a gift of hope and action.
An unusual family perspective on the topic, this book will appeal to all those interested in securing a future for their children and grandchildren.
Availability: The Bega Valley Library
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