As the book deadline looms, I am finishing off the remaining ingredients… here is the one about peak oil resolutions….
The Challenge
Local and regional authorities aren’t planning strategically for peak oil, and it is not a concern reflected in their policy making. They may not even understand it. Without a clear statement of concern about the issue, any further steps or actions on the issue will not have a foundation.
Core Text
Getting your local Council to officially recognise peak oil as a challenge can be a key step in its moving towards resilience, and to its engagement with the Transition process. This is an approach much more established in the US, where the first peak oil resolutions began to emerge in 2006[1]. US towns and cities that have passed peak oil resolutions include Berkeley, Chapel Hill, Cleveland, Bloomington and Nevada City.
Here is a guest post from Graham Truscott (see right, he’s the one in the middle…).
Transition Training and Consulting has been very busy lately. This is the (strictly not-for-profit) part of the Transition Network specifically designed to engage businesses and organisations in the process of transition. Businesses of all sizes have significant influence on our communities, and are themselves communities that need to be engaged if the wider economic and social transition is to be successful.
I wrote a while ago about the wonderful event that was the Unleashing of Transition Malvern Hills. I mentioned that at the event they showed a 20 minute film, drawing together some of the different work underway in the area. That film is now online, and you can watch it below….
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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