The TRANSITION LIBRARY consists of books and DVDs (listed below) loaned mostly from our own collections. If you would like to add a title, your name can be firmly attached to your contribution for easy retrieval when you want it back. Please contact <transitionalbanyca [at] gmail.com> if you’d like to contribute a book or a DVD.
Borrowers have items for one month, from one Potluck to the next (see post on Potlucks with Purpose). (Yes, to borrow an item, you have to come to one of our Potlucks!)
At the moment there is no membership fee, but any borrower who loses or damages a book or DVD will need to replace it. If you borrow one of the DVDs, we strongly recommend you invite friends and neighbors over to watch it with you, and leave time for a good discussion afterwards.
Please note that many of the documentaries are also freely available on the web.
DOCUMENTARIES
White Water, Black Gold, 2011
The Economics of Happiness, 2011
What A Way To Go, Life at the End of Empire, 2010 (?)
Living Without Money, 2010
The Money Fix, 2010 (?)
Slow the Flow, 2010?
One Peace at a Time, 2009
The Tapping Solution, 2009
Capitalism – A Love Story, 2009
Homegrown, 2009
Dirt! The Movie, 2009
The Age of Stupid, 2009
Collapse, 2009
Dying to Have Known, 2008
Consume This Movie, 2008
What Would Jesus Buy?, 2007
The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 2006
A Convenient Truth, Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, 2006
The Global Brain/The White Hole in Time, 2006
The Future of Food, 2005
In Grave Danger of Falling Food, 2003
Ancient Futures – Learning from Ladakh, 1993
Global Gardener, Permaculture, with Bill Mollison, 1991
BOOKS
The Transition Handbook - Rob Hopkins
Transition Timeline - Shaun Chamberlin
The Transition Companion - Rob Hopkins
The New Good Life - John Robbins
Local Food, How to Make it Happen in Your Community – Tamzin Pinkerton & Rob Hopkins
City Chicks - Patricia Foreman
Chicken Tractor - Andy Lee & Patricia Foreman
Storye’s Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds
How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine) - John Jeavons
The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping - Rosalind Creasy
Urban Homesteading - Kaplan & Blume
Gaia’s Garden – Toby Hemenway
The Chicken Chronicles - Alice Walker
The Humanure Handbook - Joseph Jenkins
MycoMedicinals, an informational treatise on mushrooms - Paul Stametz
The Cob Builders Handbook - Becky Bee
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vols 1 & 2 - Brad Lancaster
Post Carbon Reader - Heinberg & Leach
Navigating the Coming Chaos, A Handbook for Inner Transition - Carolyn Baker
When Technology Fails, A Manual for Self Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency - Matthew Stein
Reinventing Collapse - Dmitry Orlov
Hope Beneath Our Feet - ed. Martin Keogh
Sharing Solutions - Orsi & Doskow
As The World Burns (a comic book) - Derek Jensen & Stephanie McMillan
End Game Volume 1, The Problem with Civilization - Derek Jensen
Ecology – A Pocket Guide - Ernest Callenbach
Timeless Simplicity – Creative Living in a Consumer Society - John Lang
What Comes After Money? - Daniel Pinchbeck & Ken Jordan
Sacred Economics - Charles Eisenstein
A Brit who came to the US in 1988 and found California and the Transition movement to be a perfect fit. Now my life is replete with a dear husband, a small but productive permaculture backyard, a loving family and a very full calendar of work I love.
We’re getting valuable insights into essential challenges we affluent folks face from reading aloud parts of Peter Whybrow’s “Dangerously Addictive” from “The Post Carbon Reader.” Marge and I checked the Reader out from the Transition Albany Library at December’s Puposeful Potluck. Videos