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Monthly archive for November 2005
Showing results 11 - 15 of 19 for the month of November, 2005.
11 Nov 2005
You know how it sometimes when you read something and it sums up so neatly something that you have been thinking for ages but not quite been able to articulate? Well, on the train on my way home tonight I read something like that, and it was very powerful. I first read articles by Tom Atlee in Permaculture Activist magazine a couple of years ago, and found them very useful. Tom runs the Co-Intelligence Institute, and does wonderful work looking at the ‘heart’ side of social change work. On his website you will find a treasure trove of articles and insights into his work. This article is a letter he wrote to a friend, and is titled “Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities”. You can read the full article here. Here is a section from it that I found particularly relevant to Energy Descent Planning work.
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11 Nov 2005
Louise Rooney of Transition Design in Ireland recently sent me the following links, which are a rather interesting Dutch perspective on what they call **Transition Management**. Before I give you the links, I’ll just introduce Transition Design, they are looking to build on the work that was begun with the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan, and are aiming to offer both Councils and communities support in developing such plans. They are also organising 2006’s Fuelling the Future conference, which will largely focus on Energy Descent Planning and designing for transition. It looks like it will be over the weekend of June 24th -25th, so keep that free in your diary. You can hear an excellent interview with Catherine Dunne of Transition Design here.
So, anyway, there are the three articles,
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11 Nov 2005
You may have seen this already, but Richard Heinberg sharing a platform with Prince Charles and telling an assembled audience made up of members of major corporations (Ford, Shell, Dow Chemical, Daimler Chrysler, Cisco, Agilent), mayors (San Francisco, Oakland) and other government representatives (NASA, CalEPA), banks, utilities (Pacific Gas and Electric, Calpine) and universities that peak oil and climate change are a reality and that “Somehow we have to find the courage to reassert the once commonplace belief that human beings have a duty to act as the stewards of creation” is definitely something to draw your attention to. I haven’t yet found a link to Prince Charles’ speech, but Richard Heinberg’s to the same event can be read here.
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10 Nov 2005
I have long admired Ken Jones, the Buddhist writer who has written a great deal about the concept of socially engaged Buddhism. Ken lives in Wales and has written widely on the subject and is one of the founders of the Network of Engaged Buddhists. His insights on activism and social change are of great relevance to those of us designing methods for engaging communties in energy descent work.
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9 Nov 2005
Lisa Rayner’s article on permaculture and trauma therapy is well worth a read.
It highlights some very interesting comparisons between the development of trauma theory to treat people with deep trauma, such as post traumatic stress disorder, and permaculture as a tool for dealing with the trauma of peak oil. The whole question of how to help people through what for some people will be deeply traumatic changes in the way our world works is a very important area that I am exploring as part of the research I am doing. I am in dialogue with a number of people with interesting things to say on the matter, and I will share insights from that whenever possible. This article raises some interesting questions for deeper exploration.
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