Learning Resources

Below are several videos and links to resources which will help you learn more about Transition Towns, climate change, and peak oil.

• Videos
• Links for further reading

Videos

• The Transition Handbook, an inspiring and invaluable resource for progressing toward personal action in the face of climate change.
• The 12 Steps of Transition, Part 1-6
• The 12 Steps of Transition, Part 7-12
• The Transition Towns Movie
• Hope in a Changing Climate
• Transition to a World Without Oil, Rob Hopkins's TED talk on Transition as a response to dwindling oil supplies

The Transition Handbook

The 12 Steps of Transition, Part 1-6

The 12 Steps of Transition, Part 7-12

The Transition Towns Movie

In Transition is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those who know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination, and humor, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions-focused, viral, and fun.

In Transition 1.0 from Transition Towns on Vimeo.

Links for further reading

http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/

Transition Culture

Transition Network.org

http://transition-times.com/colorado/ (not  just about Colorado; news and opinions from around the world)

Transition US

The Transition Discussion Guide, for forming study groups around the Transition idea. Download the PDF.

Climate Change Links:

Website of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

U.S. Global Change Research Program

Pew climate change website

Climate Change in North Carolina

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it

What if the economy doesn't recover?", a useful article by Richard Heinberg that explains what's going on from the perspective of those who accept the Limits to Growth view of the world.

Stop Hand-Wringing About Peak Oil and Climate Change and Do Something, an article that is great for introducing newcomers to the idea of Transition Initiatives, as well as showing the converted how mainstream this is getting. From Alternet.

Judith Schwartz on Transition Initiatives (coming soon)