Ecomunicipality.com

In an earlier post, I discussed the idea of "transition towns"--municipalities, mainly in England at that point, that had committed to re-imagining, re-configuring, and re-building themselves on a model of sustainability and post-carbon living.

Well, the Transition Handbook is now out and available online.  Here is an excerpt from the Introduction:

As I stood at the front of that hall, watching the room full of
laughing, twinkling people, waving their Totnes Pounds, I felt very
moved. There is a power here, I thought, which has remained largely
untapped. Surely when we think about peak oil and climate change we
should feel horrified, afraid, overwhelmed? Yet here was a room full of
people who were positively elated, yet were also looking the twin
challenges of peak oil and climate change square in the face.