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Monthly archive for March 2006
Showing results 1 - 5 of 28 for the month of March, 2006.
31 Mar 2006
The response to Wednesday’s post has been amazing, a wealth of intelligent and insightful comments. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. I had just two things I wanted to briefly add, which have come to me since on the subject. The first was a quote a found last night when I opened my copy of David C. Korten’s book “The Post-Corporate World”, it comes from Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers and sums up beautifully what some people have been saying;
>”We encourage others to change only if we honour who they are now. We ourselves engage in change only as we discover that we might be more of who we are by becoming something different”.
It is worth reading a few times. It yields more insight each time I read it…
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30 Mar 2006
“Vote for Me – I’ll guarantee you less every year”. Not something you are likely to hear from your local politician. Even though some MPs, like Michael Meacher, talk about the reality of peak oil, they still cling to the concept of business as usual, not really taking on board the depth of its implications and the inevitable need for relocalisation and for economic contraction. At what stage will MPs start to acknowledge the inevitable fact that we have to start rethinking some very basic assumptions and start working out how to make relocalisation and contraction electable?
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29 Mar 2006
I gave a talk in Kingsbridge in Devon on Sunday, the sequel to a screening of The End of Suburbia that my friend Naresh presented last week. I began my talk by asking how many people there had seen the film. 90% of hands went up. “How was it?” I asked. A long silence. “Shocking” said one man. People had had a fairly sleepless week between the film and my talk. I’m sure those of you who have shown the film will be familiar with this reaction. It raises the very important question, which I want to explore in this piece, to what extent should we use fear as a tool to motivate change in people?
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28 Mar 2006
We all love James Howard Kunstler. Even if we might not always agree with him, his dry and ascerbic take on the world is one of peak oil’s more entertaining voices. He has single-handedly elevated peak oil cynicism to an art form. I just spent a side-splitting and eye-moistening half an hour going through the”Eyesore of the Month” feature on his website. As one who shares his revulsion with most modern architecture, I really enjoyed his sharp wit and ‘take-no-prisoners’ assault on all that is worst about 21st century architecture. One of the things we will be able to celebrate about a post peak society
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27 Mar 2006
Some things in life need to be acknowledged and celebrated. My dear friends Thomas and Ulrike who are now running The Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability have, after a 3 year building process which I’m sure at times must have felt like 10, finally moved into their cob home. It has been the most extraordinary adventure, and the end result is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and one which is an amazing demonstration of natural building materials and their potential.
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The response to Wednesday’s post has been amazing, a wealth of intelligent and insightful comments. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. I had just two things I wanted to briefly add, which have come to me since on the subject. The first was a quote a found last night when I opened my copy of David C. Korten’s book “The Post-Corporate World”, it comes from Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers and sums up beautifully what some people have been saying;
