Resources
Here are some resources we have enjoyed and hope you will too. Don't forget to check out our useful blogs and web links pages as well - especially the Transition Culture website.
TBI has an extensive and growing collection of material relevant to our aims. We have deposited over 50 books with the public library service, most of the held at Fortrose. Please click here for a list of them.
Recommended reading
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with nature to grow edible crops - Martin Crawfor
Food for Free - Richard Mabey
Peak Everything - Richard Heinberg
Prosperity without Growth - Tim Jackson
The Self Sufficient Gardener - John Seymour
Enough is Enough – Rob Dietz & Dan O’Neill
What Matters, Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth – Wendell Berry
Zero Carbon Britain – Rethinking the Future – Centre for Alternative Technology
Meat, A Benign Extravagance – Simon Fairlie
Ethics for a Finite World – Herschel Elliott
Agenda for a New Economy. From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth – David C Korten
Supply Shock – Brian Czech
From time to time Transition Black Isle and its members produce guides to current topics. For example:
A brief guide to the Renewable Heat Incentive (produced January 2012)
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- 19:30 TBI Gardeners Quiz Night online
- Saturday 16 January
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- Monday 18 January
- 13:00 Highland Good Food Conference - Session 2
- Thursday 21 January
- 19:00 Release of 'This Good Earth' documentary
- Monday 25 January
- 13:00 Highland Good Food Conference - Session 3
- Tuesday 26 January
- 19:30 Economics for Activists 3 - Beth Stratford
- Monday 1 February
- 13:00 Highland Good Food Conference - Session 4
- Thursday 4 February
- 09:30 SFHA / Changeworks virtual conference - 'Housing now, Housing's future'
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