19 May 2006
Community Renewables Course at CAT.
I spent last weekend at the Centre for Alternative Technology in North Wales doing a course called “Community Renewable Energy Schemes
An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent
Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
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Monthly archive for May 2006
Showing results 11 - 15 of 26 for the month of May, 2006.
18 May 2006
Leading the Way Conference and the launch of the D.A.R.E. Report (downloadable here…)
Last week at the Great Hall at Dartington saw a conference called **’Leading the Way – the Potential for Renewable Energy in the South Hams’** which launched a new report by the Devon Association for Renewable Energy. The report looks at all the renewable energy options for Totnes and the wider South Hams area, and assesses their feasibility and how much energy each option could provide. Its conclusion is that if all renewable energy options for the area were harnessed to the maximum they could generate between 30 and 40% of current demand, identifying conservation as the essential first step.
17 May 2006
It’s Official – UK Government Acknowledges Peak Oil.
Well not in so many words, but I think that historically when we look back for the day that peak oil was reached for the UK, it will be 16th May 2006. Tony Blair’s speech to the CBI was a carefully stage managed trailer of the supposedly independent energy review process that has been going on for many months, and came out in favour of nuclear (hardly a surprise). The UK Government, despite being in deep denial of the subject publically, as was illustrated in Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks’ letter to PowerSwitch, have of course been clearly aware of the matter for years. Indeed Tony Blair’s speech to the CBI could have been re-titled “PM acknowledges peak oil” and would have read exactly the same. Try it.
16 May 2006
Reading the Signs…
I just got back from Machynlleth yesterday after a great Community Renewables course. I will be posting about the course tomorrow, just as soon as I have worked out how to post powerpoint files onto Word Press. In the meantime here are two great signs I saw on my visit to Machynlleth. The first
16 May 2006
A Busy and Productive Week in Kinsale…
**Brian Weller from Willits, California, visits Kinsale. A Report by Graham Strouts**
The process of relocalization was the focus of a visit to Kinsale on May 5th-6th by Brian Weller of Willits Economic LocaLization (W.E.L.L.) in northern California. About 50 people came to the Anchor Hotel in Kinsale on the Friday night to hear Brian speak, and 30 people from communities around Kinsale, Cork County and beyond attended the seminar the following day.
