Pax-salon Mailing List: Salons and book club

[patty (pattypax]

HI,  Just a reminder that we are reading The Transition Handbook :  
From Oil Dependency to local resilience, by Rob Hopkins for The  
Little Book of the Odd Month Club and it will be discussed the last  
Tues. in March, March 29.

From the back cover:  "This is much more than just a book.  It is a  
manual for a movement.  And, not just any movement, but one which in  
avoiding the collapse threatened by the twin crisis of peak oil and  
climate change-----could prove to be the most important social force  
humanity has ever had."
And, another quote from the book:

“...we need to refocus on the creation of local production systems…of  
local low-impact manufacturing…What is inevitable, though, is the  
return of the local and the small-scale, and the turning away from the  
globalised.  This will not be an isolationist process of turning our  
backs on the global community.  Rather it will be one of communities  
and nations meeting each other not from a place of mutual dependency,  
but of increased resilience.”

thanks, paty