Elizabeth J Walker is a teacher and writer with an Honours degree in Psychology from Edinburgh University. She has many years of experience living 'off the grid'With this lifestyle, it was rare to have access to mains services. Water had to be carried from a standing tap, sometimes over a mile away. She used solar panels in the days when you had to solder your own diodes, and cooked with bottled gas. Elizabeth has lived with gipsy tribes, fairground showmen and has taught children from travelling cultures; specialising in landscape myths and astrology, she created learning materials and stories on her old Brother typewriter.
A welcome addition to the literature on how we can all successfully transition from a lifestyle based on fossil fuels and consumerism to living sustainably within the finite resources of our planet. The book's strengths are present in the 'Resilience Wheel' and very practical 'Resilience Plans' which provide detailed guidance and summarisation for transforming our lives and all the elements involved in achieving personal and community resilience. An excellent complementary text to earlier literature on this theme such as the Transition Handbook, the Resilience Handbook, gives the increasing population now engaging in 'green' issues, campaigns and politics a very timely aide memoire. I can thoroughly recommend 'The Resilience Handbook.';Peter Barton, Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for West Dorset
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