Where Can We Turn to Learn?

A Citizen’s Guide to Selected Resources for
Self-Instruction and Exploration of
Transition Studies

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Citizens from around the world are turning their attention to transition studies.  The urgency of planning for the transitions in our lives is now becoming widely apparent across all cultures, all languages and all national boundaries.

The reason is simple.  All over the world modern civilization depends upon non-renewable resources.  It follows that our civilization will not be renewed — that is to say, it will not survive — unless it can transform itself soon and build itself instead upon principles and practices of renewable energy and material recycling.  There are major transitions required to move our civilization from where we are to where we need to be in order to survive.  Transition studies involves the intentional focus on how to transform our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors from what we are doing now to what we will need to do in order to survive.

What follows below is a gradually growing list of resources available for global citizens to use in crafting their own approaches to the transitions they and their communities must now undertake in their own personal and collective lives.

View introductory videos:

• Where can we turn to learn? Information for Public Discussion and Citizen Action on Climate Change in Boston and Beyond | EV & N 270 | CCRV
• Planning for a Sustainable Future on a Finite Planet: Where Can We Turn to Learn in the Midst of Abrupt Change? – Part 1 | EV & N – #330 | CCTV
• Planning for a Sustainable Future on a Finite Planet: Where Can We Turn to Learn in the Midst of Abrupt Change? – Part 2 | EV & N – #333 | CCTV

and:

Where Can We Turn to Learn? The Struggle for Truth in the Anthropocene (in Face of Official Disinformation, Corporate Propaganda and Pervasive Public Mistrust) | EV & N 362 | CCTV

Guides to Resources:

[You can view the following video descriptions of how to
access and use these online guides (PDF files).]

• Where can we turn to learn…about climate? Some Books to Begin With (1)
• Where can we turn to learn…about climate? Some further books – (2)
  • Some books to begin with… A Citizen’s Guide…(downloadable and printable PDF document).
    etc., etc.
• Where can we turn to learn about climate? Online “Film Festivals” for Extending Climate Awareness and Effective Action
• Climate Scientists speak –Important Climate Science Books from “RealClimate”
  and
• Some Recent Videoblog Posts – CCRA
• Some Useful Initial Resources on Climate Change

Selected Topic Threads:

• Climate Change/System Change – What needs to change?
• Flint, Michigan – Unfolding Events and Problems of Environmental Ethics,
  etc., etc.