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Monthly archive for November 2006
Showing results 1 - 5 of 23 for the month of November, 2006.
30 Nov 2006
This is really a post of no particular consequence, apologies in advance. Having been recently voted Britain’s 12th Best Green Blog, I thought I had better check out the competition, and so I have been rooting about among those that also came in the Top 100. Despite being a bit unsure how George Monbiot managed to get a website that isn’t actually a blog in at number 3, I have to say I was fascinated by the diversity of the various sites. I rather enjoyed Camden Kiwi, who somehow manages to simultaneously write about coal fired powerstations and her walk to the charity shop round the corner from her house. Something about the combination of the important and the inconsequential rather appeals to me (as you may have observed). So in the spirit of celebrating the utterly inconsequential, I wanted today to offer some in-depth observations on pyjamas.
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29 Nov 2006
**Oil Vulnerability Auditing – a Workshop Organised by Envision and Transition Town Totnes, Follaton House, Totnes.
Presented by Simon Snowden of University of Liverpool.**
How does a project like Transition Town Totnes engage with the business community in the surrounding area? This is a question which is key to the success of the process, and something grassroots environmental projects have always struggled with. We were delighted then that Simon Snowden from the University of Liverpool came down a couple of weeks ago to run a workshop with representatives of 10 local businesses to explore this.
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28 Nov 2006
**What role to communities such as Totnes have in preparations for peak oil?**
What I see happening in towns like Totnes in the UK and Willits in California are test-tube experiments for what the rest of society is going to have to do. Right now we are talking about very few communities who are making some groping experimental steps in the direction of energy transition, but very soon every town, every city in the world is going to be faced with the need for making the same kinds of choices. So having at least a few communities that have undertaken the process voluntarily and proactively and have tested out the options and found ways of doing this successfully it is going to be very important. These towns will be the way-showers for rest of us.
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27 Nov 2006
**An Interview with Richard Heinberg – 23rd November 2006 – Part 1**.
While Richard Heinberg was at Schumacher College teaching part of the **Life After Oil** course I was lucky to be able to take 40 minutes of his time to do an interview with him. We explored various aspects of the peak oil challenge before moving on to explore solutions, in particular community-initiated responses, such as the work Richard is contributing to in Oakland, as well as the emerging process here in Totnes. Part One, posted today, focuses on peak oil, and was recorded the day after his talk in Totnes Civic Hall, which was attended by over 350 people.
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24 Nov 2006
I write this post somewhat haggard and bleary eyed. One of the joyful spinoffs of fatherhood is those nights where one or more of your children are up vomiting all night. Last night was a supreme exhibition of synchronised vomiting, 2 children awake most of the night, copious puke and very little sleep. Now, the morning after the night before (or something), having spent some rather unpleasant time rinsing sheets and towels, I am reminded of a discussion I had while teaching on the Life After Oil course at Schumacher College this week (of which more in later posts). A post-peak world will, by necessity, mean less electronic ‘stuff’, and while I would reluctantly but understandingly kiss goodbye to mobile phones, TVs, computers and toasted sandwich machines, you would need a crowbar to separate me from my washing machine.
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This is really a post of no particular consequence, apologies in advance. Having been recently voted Britain’s 12th Best Green Blog, I thought I had better check out the competition, and so I have been rooting about among those that also came in the Top 100. Despite being a bit unsure how George Monbiot managed to get a website that isn’t actually a blog in at number 3, I have to say I was fascinated by the diversity of the various sites. I rather enjoyed Camden Kiwi, who somehow manages to simultaneously write about coal fired powerstations and her walk to the charity shop round the corner from her house. Something about the combination of the important and the inconsequential rather appeals to me (as you may have observed). So in the spirit of celebrating the utterly inconsequential, I wanted today to offer some in-depth observations on pyjamas.
