The Free Range 'Energy Beyond Oil' Project – The 'Simplicity/Less' (E) Handouts

S.2. Transformation

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Sheet no.2 in the Free Range 'Energy Beyond Oil' Project's 'Simplicity/Less' series of handouts looks at Transformation – Changing your Consciousness.

The lesson we must draw from energy depletion is the need for a change in lifestyle, not a change of energy supplier. That's a very personal process of how we re-arrange our homes, our work and our lives. It begins by working on your "head space", because you must be able to understand and commit to the process of change if you are going to achieve long-term changes in your life in the face of great difficulties. But it's also important to network with others, and in particular, to press the urgency for change within your own social networks.

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Background information/links

Reports/documents

Redefining Prosperity, Jonathon Porritt, The Sustainable Development Commission, 2003 – http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=41 (see also http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining_prosperity.html)
A Comparison of The Limits to Growth with Thirty Years of Reality, Graham Turner, CSIRO Working Paper Series 2008-9, June 2008 – http://www.fraw.org.uk/library/peakoil/csiro_2008.pdf




Links

Alternatives for Simple Living – http://www.simpleliving.org/
The Downshifter – http://www.thedownshifter.co.uk/
Downsizer – http://www.downsizer.net/
National Downshifting Week – http://www.downshiftingweek.com/
Selfsufficient-ish – http://www.selfsufficientish.com/
The Simple Living Network – http://www.simpleliving.net/




Books

The Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update, D.H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows, Earthscan Publications (November 2004). ISBN 9781 8440 7144 9.
The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich,
Buccaneer Books (Reprint Aug 1997). ISBN 9781 5684 9587 3.
The Transition Handbook – From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience Rob Hopkins,
Green Books (2008). ISBN 9781-9003-2218-8.