Don Hall has served in a variety of capacities throughout the international Transition Towns Movement over the past 15 years, first as Education & Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, then as Founder and Executive Director of Transition Sarasota (Florida), and Executive Director of Transition US. He is currently Training Coordinator for the international Transition Network. Don holds a Master's degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, a certification in Permaculture Design from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, and regularly teaches on a wide variety of topics including leadership development, community organising, effective collaboration, and local food systems. In 2019, Don edited and published 10 Stories of Transition in the US: Inspiring Examples of Community Resilience-Building. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
This is a handbook for millions of us who have not given up on restoring health, sanity, vitality, and a higher moral purpose to our world – even with the dangerous head winds. It is a glossary of relevant ideas for regeneration activists. It is a compendium of projects that have worked. Don provides an analysis of where the movements for regeneration are, and what next steps can be. He is the kind of leader we need. — Vicki Robin, author, Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, and host, What Could Possibly Go Right? If you want to build a future that extends beyond the polycrisis currently gripping humanity, then regeneration should be your key search word. And your search lands here. This is the book to inform your personal and communitarian efforts as humans cease being fossil fools and transition into wise Earth stewards. — Richard Heinberg, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Humans Survival and Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute Weaving together personal transformation, community organizing, and new economic thinking, this handbook is chock full of insights from Don Hall's lifetime commitment to the great work of our time – healing the collateral damage of economic growth and globalization. — Woody Tasch, founder, Slow Money Institute and beetcoin.org In The Regeneration Handbook, Don Hall illustrates how the great transition could be a bane, or if we look at it as a unique opportunity for transformation. Shared challenges demand shared solutions! —Tom Llewellyn, executive director, Shareable Many things about our future are murky – but one thing is clear, and that is that a rapidly changing planet is going to demand some rapid changes from all of us, in our communities and in our own selves. This book is a darned good place to start thinking through those transitions. — Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature If you're feeling hopeless about our future, you've found the right antidote! With The Regeneration Handbook, Don Hall has done a brilliant job summing up the past couple decades of thinking on regenerative social change, and has written a clear, inspiring, and entertaining call to action. — Adam Brock, organizational ecologist, Regenerate Change, and author, Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation