There is a dialogue taking place over on Transition Culture, about how Transition hubs relate to the UK network which started this whole Transition idea. If an opportunity arose, to rewrite this MoU collaboratively, we would need a tool which can manage the input from a large number of authors.

Check out this video introduction to a tool called Mixed Ink. I have been facilitating online groups for a few years and watching the tools evolve very rapidly. To date. this is the best I have found for large scale collaboration.

From the video:

It’s great that many people can express themselves online, but too many of us are speaking at one time. All the people trying to get heard just cant break through the noise. And those trying to hear us cant understand what we are saying. With Mixed Ink groups can speak with a single voice.

Contribute your ideas, mix & match others’ ideas, or simply rate as you read.

UPDATE: The Transtion Handbook is now online in a wiki!

UPDATE: download Transition-Handbook.pdf

UPDATE: download Transition-Handbook.odt

See also: Transition Primer

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I really can’t recommend this book highly enough, but if you need more convincing…

“a must-read labelled, ‘immediate’ “ – Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid

“The Transition Handbook will come to be seen as one of the seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age” – Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association

“There is no more important book than this one for any community seeking to change toward ecological sustainability” – Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on Globalization

“There is no better call to action than this book, and no better guide to the hands-on creation of a liveable future” – Dr Stephan Harding, co-ordinator of the MSc Holistic Science at Schumacher College

“This is much more than just a book. It is a manual for a movement. And not just any movement, but one which could prove to be the most important social force humanity has ever seen” – Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees

“The Transition movement is the best news there’s been for a long time and this manual is a goldmine of inspiration to get you started” – New Internationalist

“The most important book we have yet published” – John Elford, Green Books (publishers of LOTS of VERY good books)

“The book succeeds brilliantly at every level… Seriously, this is one of the most important books in the sustainability field to appear in this decade” – Robert Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science at the University of Glamorgan and Co-Director, The Green College

“The newly published Transition Handbook is so important that I am tempted just to confine this review to five simple words ‘You must read this book!’” – Richard Barnett, editor of Ethical Pulse (Ethical Junction’s newletter)

Need yet more convincing?

Watch these videos!

Caroline Lucas Launches The Transition Handbook

Rob Hopkins’ on the Transition Handbook

Read these reviews…

• A Review of The Transition Handbook by Graham Strouts of Zone5.org
• The Transition Handbook Reviewed in ‘The Guardian’
• Review of Transition Handbook from New Internationalist magazine
• Another Review of The Transition Handbook by Richard Barnett, editor of Ethical Pulse
• Patrick Whitefield Reviews The Transition Handbook
• A review from Friends of the Earth Earthmatters Magazine
• Carbusters Magazine review
• Carolyn Baker’s review

Enjoy!

Josef.