Archive for “Transport” category
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14 May 2008
Things seem to be moving so fast these days. About 6 months ago, BBC Radio 4’s consumer affairs programme ‘You and Yours’ ran a piece about Transition Initiatives and peak oil where Jeremy Leggett debated peak oil with a ridiculous guy from Audacity.org, who basically argued that the free market will solve all ills and there is still loads of oil left. The presenters rather laughed off the peak oil discussion as though it was all rather alarmist and silly. How rapidly things have changed. Yesterday’s ‘Call You and Yours’ was devoted to high oil prices and how they are affecting the consumer, and it was powerful stuff (you can hear the programme for the next 6 days here).
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28 Apr 2008
Our personal lives can sometimes imitate what is happening in the wider world to an alarming extent. On Friday morning I sat down at my computer to write you a very amusing piece about olive oil (which you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for…), only to find that my computer had seized up, and refused to start. The Microsoft Windows Screen of Death (left) loomed large. I dashed to my local computer repair man, whose first question, on noting the symptoms, was “have you got everything backed up?” Ah. Hum.
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21 Apr 2008
The Isles of Scilly recently became the third Transition Islands, after the Isle of Man and the Isle of Wight. I visited for a couple of days over the recent school holidays at their invitation, to give a couple of talks and to also have a few days there. It is interesting to see the challenges that islands face in preparing for Transition, and the particular challenges and opportunities they throw up.
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20 Mar 2008
We have talked at Transition Culture before about how we might harness the power of advertising to engage people in Transition. There are some great ads coming out of Ken Livingston’s London Assembly as part of their strategy of taking cars out of London and getting more bikes and public transport on the road. Anyway, before you look at those, best place to start is with this simple awareness test…
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7 Feb 2008
A while ago I wrote here about the [presentation I gave at the International Forum on Globalisation](http://transitionculture.org/2007/09/14/peak-oil-transition-towns-and-resilience-building-my-talk-to-the-ifg-teach-in/) despite staying at home, sending a DVD and thereby saving 2,788kgs of carbon dioxide in the process. The response to that was very good, and as a dedicated no-flyer, I am always interested in other people who do the same. Prince Charles saw off all competition in this department recently by having himself beamed, 3D, in a Star Trek style, into a recent energy conference in Abu Dhabi (see below).
This whole question of how to attend conferences without travelling is a huge challenge, as the film above discusses, and
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