Members of Transition Southampton have read, enjoyed and particularly recommend the following books:
- Local Food by Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkins
- The Transition Timeline by Shaun Chamberlin
- The Carbon Free Home by Stephen and Rebekah Hren
- Earthcare Manual by Patrick Whitefield
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- Cradle to Cradle by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
If you live in Southampton and would like to buy these or any other books on our booklist, please consider ordering them by email from our local independent bookseller - October Books on Portswood Road.
Other books on our recommended booklist are currently available in one or more of the Southampton libraries -
- Sustainable energy - without the hot air by David MacKay - 1 copy (Portswood lib)
- Carbon Detox by George Marshall - 3 copies (Lordshill, Shirley, Portswood libs)
- Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot - 1 copy (central library)
- Enough by John Naish - 4 copies (Burgess Rd, Shirley x2, central libs)
- Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins - 2 copies (Bitterne, Shirley libs)
- The concise guide to self-sufficency by John Seymour & Will Sutherland - 2 copies (Lordshill, Shirley libs)
There are lots of books on sustainability related topics in Southampton libraries including a great number published recently. If you don't use your libraries much, let me urge you to visit - they may surprise you. Quite apart from being free to move from browsing to reading without payment, or irritating shop staff, it doesn't really make good carbon sense for us all to own individual copies of books we only read once or twice. Here's some of what you can find in the Southampton library catalogue:
- Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay (central)
- Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future by Bill Mollison (central)
- Energy security: re-measuring the world by Sascha Muller-Kraenner (central)
- The future of energy use by Philip O’Keefe, Geoff O’Brien and Nicola Pearsall (central)
- The Green Kitchen by RichaRd Ehrlich (Portswood and Woolston)
- Hot, flat and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution by Thomas L Friedman (Cobbett Rd and Portswood)
- The last oil shock: a survival guide to the imminent extinction of petroleum man by David Strahan (mobile library)
- Living without oil: the new economy revealed by Adjiedj Bakas and Rob Creemers (Portswood and Woolston)
- Make a difference at work: over 500 ways to make the environment your business by Adharanand Finn (Bitterne, Portswood, Shirley, central)
- Saving energy in the home by Nick White (Bitterne, Portswood, Shirley, central)
- 50 ways to make your house and garden greener by Sian Berry (Burgess Rd, Cobbett Rd, Lordshill, Shirley, central, Woolston)
- Adapting Buildings and cities for climate change by Sue Roaf, David Crichton (central)
- Barefoot architect: a handbook for green building by Johan van Lengen (central)
- Blueprint for a safer planet by Nicholas Stern (Cobbett Rd, Shirley, central)
- The book of rubbish ideas: an interactive room by room guide to reducing household waste by Tracey Smith (Burgess Rd, central)
- City-region 2020: integrated planning for a sustainable environment by Joe Ravetz with the sustainable city-region working group (central)
- Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet by Jeffrey Sachs (Shirley, Burgess Rd, central)
- The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities - David Satterthwaite (ed) (central)
- Easy eco auditing - how to make your home and workplace planet-friendly by Donnachadh McCarthy (Bitterne, Burgess Rd, Lordshill, central)
- Energy, society and environment: technology for a sustainable future by David Elliott (Shirley)
- Ethical Living by Peter MacBridge (Bitterne, Burgess Rd, Cobbett Rd, Lordshill, Portswood, Shirley, central, Woolston)
- Greening your home : sustainable options for every system in your house by Clayton Bennett. (Bitterne, Shirley, central)
- Growing eco-communities : practical ways to create sustainability by Jan Martin Bang. (central)
- The hot topic : how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on by Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King (Portswood x 2, Shirley, central, Lordshill)
- How to reduce your carbon footprint : 365 practical ways to make a real difference by Joanna Yarrow. (Bitterne, Burgess Rd, Cobbett Rd, Lordshill, Portswood, Shirley, central, Woolston)
- Lost crafts: rediscovering traditional skills by Una McGovern (Portswood, Woolston)
- A new deal for transport? : the UK's struggle with the sustainable transport agenda edited by Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw (central)
- Sustainable fashion and textiles : design journeys by Kate Fletcher (central).
- The barefoot beekeeper by Chandler, P.J. (Shirley)
- The garden organic guide to growing vegetables by Pears, Pauline (Cobbett Rd, Shirley)
- Companion planting by Richard Bird (Bitterne x2, Burgess Rd, Lordshill, central, Woolston)
