Resource Listing

Here you’ll find  resources the October 2011 Training for Transition colleagues and trainers recommended. Care to share your thoughts? Use the comments feature of this website.

•  www.harvestingrainwater.com  Well-known Permaculture expert Brad Lancaster shares techniques to manage rainwater harvesting for drylands and beyond.
  
• Dry Lands Permaculture Institute – Art Ludwig
• The Long Emergency – book by James Howard Kunstler
• Michael Pollan’s books
• Movie – Someplace with a Mountain the impact of rising sea levels on the planet and its peoples.
  
• Book – Shock Doctrine – Naomi Kline.   Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.
• www.grinningplanet.com – saving the planet one joke at a time, this site contains lists of relevant movies and books
• Sandpoint Idaho – a Transition Initiative community
• Jeremy Rifkin – The Empathetic Civilization (video)  Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
  
• 1491 – book excerpt  Charles Mann looks at the history of the Americas before Columbus.
  
• Good Neighbors.net  An all-volunteer effort to create a more caring, just and civil society.
• Donella Meadows – archive of writings of this sustainability expert
  
• Jon Young – Nature Connection 8 Shields Institute
  
• Coyote Mentoring
  
• Kamana Home Study – wilderness awareness school with home study programs
  
• Paul Hawkins – Blessed Unrest book which shares how the largest social movement in history Is restoring grace, justice, and beauty to the world.
  
• 300 years of fossil fuel use in 3 minutes – Youtube video
• Sophy Banks – Heart and Soul – the emotional changes related to Transition
• Spiral Dynamics
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – book which makes an eloquent case that addiction – all addiction – is in fact a case of human development gone askew.
  
• Joanna Macy – Deep Ecology  and this review from the Center for Ecoliteracy– Heart and Soul work
• Open Space – Harrison Owens writes a brief history of the transformative technique known as Open Space.
  
• thefuntheory.com – dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better
• Collapse –
  
• Movie – Let the Truth Be Told  – Four movies serve to tell the tale of the dangers of flouride added into public drinking water.