The Transition Timeline: For a Local, Resilient Future - Softcover

Chamberlin, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603582002 ISBN 13: 9781603582001

Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co, 2009

Synopsis

The Transition Timeline 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 world over the next twenty years, ranging from Denial, in which we reap the consequences of failing to acknowledge and respond to our environmental challenges, to the Transition Vision, in which we shift our cultural assumptions to fit our circumstances and move into a more fulfilling, lower energy world.The practical, realistic details of this Transition Vision are examined in depth, covering key areas such as food, energy, demographics, transport and healthcare, and they provide a sense of context for communities working towards a thriving future. The book also provides a detailed and accessible update on climate change and peak oil and the interactions between them, including their impacts in the UK, present and future.Use it. Choose your path, and then make that future real with your actions, individually and with your community. As Rob Hopkins outlines in his foreword, there is a rapidly spreading movement addressing these challenges, and it needs you.

About this title

About the Authors

Shaun Chamberlin was born and grew up in Kingston upon Thames. He graduated in Philosophy from the University of York in 2001 and then went on to work on a project for marginalized groups and trained to work as a teacher. In 2005, Shaun devoted himself full-time to exploring the challenges facing our global community. Following the Life After Oil course at Schumacher College in 2006, he started his own website, www.darkoptimism.org, and helped form Transition Town Kingston in 2007.

Shaun Chamberlin is the founder of http://www.darkoptimism.org and has been involved with the Transition Network since its inception. He is also the TEQs Development Director at The Lean Economy Connection and a member of the Department of Energy and Climate Change's Personal Carbon Allowances Advisory Group, as well as a core member of Transition Town Kingston, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603582002
• ISBN 13: 9781603582001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190