TRANSITION STROUD LIBRARY LAUNCH (local newspaper article)

Transition Stroud supporters launched a new section of Stroud Library on 5th July. They have created a display of books relating to climate change and Peak Oil that can be borrowed in the same way as other library books. Helen Royall, who coordinates Transition Stroud cut the
red ribbon opening the new section in the library. She said: "This will be a chance for people to learn more about climate change and Peak Oil - peak oil refers to the point where world oil production peaks and starts to decline. Some experts consider we have reached that point
while others believe it is only a few years away. Certainly current oil prices and forecasts indicate that things are not going to get easier.
However it doesn't all have to be doom and gloom and many of these books and DVDs have positive ways forward that we can start taking now. Indeed the Stroud area is already alive with many exciting projects that will help with the transition to a post carbon world."

Philip Booth, who coordinated the collection of the books for the new section, said: "We have been delighted by the quality of books and DVDs donated. This is the start of developing an important resource for the community that we hope many people will use. Many thanks to all who have donated already and to the Library staff who have been wonderfully
supportive. We would still welcome more books and DVDs on Peak Oil and climate change: do please drop off any possible contributions to the library direct. "

John Marjoram, Mayor of Stroud, dropped in to welcome the new section in the Library: "This is a great way to make this information more accessible to a wider number of people. Well done to those who have put this project together."

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If you have any informative, useful or inspiring books or films relating to transition that are just gathering dust why not get in touch with Helen and donate them to the library!

See below for a list of books and DVDs available. Or look at catalogue on the library website. 

DVDs

• An Inconvenient Truth
• McLibel
• Out Of Balance
• Peak Oil
• The Power of Community
• Who Killed The Electric Car?

Books

• The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience
• Air Madness: road's mistakes repeated
• Banners and Dragons: the complete guide to creative campaigning
• Big Earth Book
• Cooking Weeds: a vegetarian cookery book
• Cutting Your Car Use: save money, be healthy, be green!
• Democratizing technology: risk, responsibility and the regulation of chemic
• Earth in the Balance: Forging a new common purpose
• Eco-villages: new frontiers for sustainability
• Energy Beyond Oil
• Food For Free: a guide to the edible plants of Britain
• Funny Weather: everything you didn't know about climate change
• Green Energy: a non-nuclear response to the greenhouse effect
• Green Living in the Urban Jungle
• Half Gone: oil, gas, hot air and the global energy crisis
• Internal Combustion: how corporations and governments addicted the world to oil and derailed the alternatives
• Hope for a Better World: the small communities solution
• How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individuals Guide to Stopping Climate Change
• How To Live Off-grid: journeys outside the system
• Hubbert's Peak: The impending world oil shortage
• Human ecology: basic concepts for sustainable development
• Last Oil Shock: a survival guide to the imminent extinction of Petroleum Man
• No-one makes you shop at Wal-Mart: the surprising deceptions of individual choice
• Philosophy for Life: applying philosophy in politics and culture
• Power Down
• Running a Temperature: an action plan for the eco-crisis
• Saving Planet Earth: What is destroying the Earth and What You can do to Help
• Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: design journeys
• Take It Personally: how globalisation affects you and how to fight back
• The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order
• The End of Oil: the decline of the petroleum economy
• The Good Shopping Guide: Revealing the good, the bad and the ugly of ethica
• The Growth of Illu$ion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the Planet
• The Little Money Book
• The Long Emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first Century
• The Organic Tradition: an anthology of writings on organic farming
• The Party's Over: Oil, war and the fate of the industrial societies
• The Sufficient Community: putting people first
• Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy 
• Unsustainable: a primer for global environmental and social justice
• What Would Jesus Buy?: Rev Billy's fabulous prayers in the face of the Shopocalypse