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TRANSITION LIBRARY

We have a lending library of DVDs and books about peak oil climate change and transitional ways of living.
Details are available from Mike Jones - email Mike here: mikejonezzz(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

If you would like to buy any of the following books relating to Transition, you can do this by clicking through and purchasing them here. Transition Town Dorchester receives 10% of sales (at no extra cost to yourself) from Green Books each time someone visits our website and buys a book via the links below;

The Polytunnel Handbook

...looks at all aspects of polytunnel use from planning your purchase to harvesting the rewards, and includes a step-by-step guide detailing how polytunnels are put up and maintained. There are chapters on developing healthy soil and preventing pests, and a jargon-free guide to the range of often mystifying accessories that many tunnel retailers offer. For the DIY enthusiast there is a full set of instructions for building a polytunnel from scratch, and the authors explain how to keep your polytunnel productive in every season.

Local Author: Andy McKee first grew vegetables with his father at the age of five, and since then he has grown in situations ranging from a seventeenth-storey window box to guerrilla gardening in the middle of a Christmas tree plantation.

He had his eyes opened to the potential of polytunnels during a visit to one featuring a hot tub warmed by a clay oven. He lives with his wife and family in rural Dorset, and is entirely self-sufficient in vegetables.

The Transition Handbook

The Author: Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Network has long been aware of the implications of our oil-dependent status, and has been energetically campaigning to increase awareness of its impact.

Having successfully created an Energy Descent Plan for Kinsale in Ireland which was later adopted as policy by the town council, Rob moved to Totnes in Devon and initiated Transition Town Totnes, the first UK town to address the issues of life after peak oil (www.transitiontowns.org/Totnes).

Since then, Transition has been growing globally at quite a remarkable rate.







The Transition Timeline

The Transition Timeline by Shaun Chamberline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us.

It describes four possible scenarios for the UK.
















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TRANSITION LIBRARY EVENT Friday 6th March 2009

Film Night...The 11th Hour


About 25 of us watched this film at the Thomas Hardye school 6th form block, Dorchester, Dorset

• This event was free (donations to Transition Town Dorchester were welcomed and help us provide additional events)
• Doors opened 7:15pm
• Film started not long after 7:30pm
• Film ended about 9pm
• tea & biscuits were provided, sipped and chomped
• ...we had a relaxed discussion 'open space' kinda thing using onion psychology! (see below)
• 10pm... we went home

onion psychology results...

One thing I can do...

• Talk to my neighbours about this
• SPREAD THE WORD – LEAD BY EXAMPLE explain the economics
• CYCLE/WALK MORE
• Ride my bike more regularly
• Support public transport more
• Drive less – walk, cycle more
• Organise clothes swap parties in my area
• Return all extraneous plastic packaging to Waitrose or Tesco

 One thing my family can do...

• Take part in EARTH HOUR / earthwatch
• One thing my family can do is eat less meat
• Support Buying Locally
• Work together in the garden
• More recycling and composting

One thing Transition Town Dorchester can do...

• Suggest that the Sustainable Communities Act and the Compulsory Purchase Act may be used as tools to undepin the creation of Council-funded Market Garden Co-operative
• Encourage local supermarkets to expand into sourcing local foods
• Need to raise their profile
• Support planning of cycle and walkways around the town. Opportunity missed at Poundbury
• PUSH FOR MORE CYCLE PATHS
• TT DORCHESTER –  keep awareness raising – kids put pressure on parents, youth clubs, schools etc
• For Transition Town to bring together different groups and appeal to a wider audience

One thing our Politicians can do...

• Poiticians can... Open their minds to the reality - Support Green Power - Relax planning laws to help eco-urban design -Awareness raising
• Insist on every new house/ office etc built to have re-newable energy sources as standard
• Policies for green buildings / Planning etc / Make a Priority NOW
• Make the roads safer to walk and cycle on
• Re-evaluate/ improve temporary planning permissions for people-owned co-ops e.g. Kibbutz creation
• Change the rules of the economic game: measure Index of Well-Being not GDP (more info from NewEconomic Foundation)
• More money put into public transport systems to encourage less car use
• Change laws so that excess food can be used not “waste” e.g. animal feed from restaurant food
• STOP HEATHROW EXPANSION
• Big Increase in Sex Education  > Fewer Births
  

Download the A4 poster for the Film Night above: BY CLICKING HERE (492kb at 150dpi)
A5 flyer version: BY CLICKING HERE (604kb at 150dpi)

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