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Monthly archive for December 2005
Showing results 21 - 25 of 28 for the month of December, 2005.
7 Dec 2005
It was only a matter of time really. We’ve had the Climate Change Movie, The Day After Tomorrow, and now here come the Peak Oil movies. Thanks to the excellent Powering Down blog site for drawing my attention to three forthcoming movies, due for release either on US television or cinemas. I wrote in an earlier blog about our collective inability to vision the kind of future we actually want, and so end up stumbling blindly forward into whatever we get. Watch the trailers for these three films and have a think about it. To what extent is this a self fulfilling prophecy?
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6 Dec 2005
A new species, discovered recently in Borneo, could be under threat by the growing European biodiesel industry. The cat-like animal, which actually when I first saw the picture I thought was a minature brontosaurus until I noticed that its ‘neck’ was actually its tail, is thought to be a kind of cat. The BBC reported on it this morning in an article called ‘New mammal’ seen in Borneo. It turns out however that the creature is already at risk due to deforestation of Borneo’s indigienous forests in order for the planting of palm oil to feed Europe’s rapidly expanding demand for biofuels to replace diminishing oil imports.
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6 Dec 2005
**David Holmgren** is the co-founder of permaculture, originating the concept in the late 1970s when David was Bill’s student at a progressive university in Australia. For many years, David had been overshadowed by Bill’s outgoing and occasionally outrageous character; while Bill toured the world inspiring many people and infuriating a few more, David stayed at home, home-schooled his son, built his house, planted his garden, walked his talk. With the recent publication of his latest book, ‘Permaculture – principles and pathways beyond sustainability’, David has begun to reclaim his place at the heart
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6 Dec 2005
I had a phone call last night from a pub in Kinsale from the Transition Design team, Louise, Catherine and Graham, to tell me some historic news. At a meeting of **Kinsale Town Council** last night, Transition Design’s proposal that Kinsale become Ireland’s first ‘Transition Town’ was unanimously approved. The proposal put before the Council was;
>**Notice of Motion**
>This council supports the efforts of the not-for-profit company “Transition Design
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5 Dec 2005
I know it is a bit early for New Year’s Resolutions, but I have already made one of mine. I am going to teach myself to shave with an old fashioned razor. What’s this got to do with **Transition Culture** and energy descent you may wonder? Well, read on.
I did grow a beard once, and it’s not an experience I wish to repeat. Facial hair grows to a point where it becomes unbearably itchy under the chin, usually the point where one shaves it off. Only those determined to grow a beard persevere beyond this point. I did it once, when I was travelling in Pakistan many years ago, when it seemed like a useful tool for blending in in certain situations. It looked terrible though, and the one photograph of it has thankfully disappeared over the years. Despite having firmly decided from that day on
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It was only a matter of time really. We’ve had the Climate Change Movie, The Day After Tomorrow, and now here come the Peak Oil movies. Thanks to the excellent Powering Down blog site for drawing my attention to three forthcoming movies, due for release either on US television or cinemas. I wrote in an earlier blog about our collective inability to vision the kind of future we actually want, and so end up stumbling blindly forward into whatever we get. Watch the trailers for these three films and have a think about it. To what extent is this a self fulfilling prophecy?
