Book: 'The Transition Handbook' is Creating Transition Towns

Are we going to reach peak oil soon? Will there be energy crises severe enough to make what we have look like child's play? Should campuses and communities work together to develop the resilience" necessary to cope with such crises? The Transition Handbook sounds intriguing. Perhaps we'll get it reviewed for Planning for Higher Education. Anyone want to volunteer to review it?

Colleges are often like little towns of their own, and many colleges are increasingly involved and intertwined with their surrounding communities. So why not form a “transition college”? Colleges are going to have to get serious preparing for future energy crises, and they should start thinking about how they might deal with them now. Most colleges are thinking mainly about cutting carbon emissions, which Mr. Hopkins believes is important but secondary to dealing with the energy crisis. Climate change is an end-of-tailpipe problem, while peak oil is an into-fuel-tank problem, to paraphrase peak-oil proponent Richard Heinberg.