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Archive for “Climate Change” category
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16 Jan 2008
**Public Meeting: How thinking about the climate crisis needs to change.**
Friday 18 January 2008. Venue: St. John’s Church, Totnes. 7.30pm to 9.30pm
We are delighted to announce that FEASTA, the Irish Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, are dropping in to Totnes this weekend for a climate think tank thing, and as part of that will be holding a public meeting this Friday. It looks like it will be a great event, so do try to get over for it.
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10 Jan 2008
**Review of ‘Eco-House Manual: how to carry out environmentally friendly improvements to your home’ by Nigel Griffiths.**
This Christmas, for those of my family who would appreciate such things, I either gave vouchers for nut trees that will be planted in Totnes in February, or copies of the Eco-House Manual. Although most books in the green building library focus on new build, there are a few books on what to do with the millions of buildings we already have, but many of those that I have read tend to be quite superficial.
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20 Dec 2007
Clearly, in the context of energy descent, this is a question we should all be asking, yet amazingly no one has really asked it in any depth since Kenneth Mellanby’s book ‘Can Britain Feed Itself’ published in 1975. In the most recent issue of the excellent publication The Land, editor and planning reform campaigner Simon Fairlie returns to Mellanby’s report and attempts what he admits is a “back of an A4 envelope” update, and the results are fascinating. You can download the pdf. of his report here, it may be the most fascinating and important piece of reading you take away with you for the Christmas break. His conclusion is similar to Mellanby; yes Britain can feed itself, but the key is the amount of meat we consume.
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13 Dec 2007
I picked up a copy of the free paper Metro yesterday. In the light of the recent announcement that the Government plans to expand the amount of offshore wind as part of its half-hearted attempt to assure everyone that business as usual is still possible, the usual tired old rubbish wheeled out against wind power has been aired once again on the radio and in the papers. A letter in Metro however, raised an argument against wind power that I have never come across before. A letter from David Hill of the World Innovation Foundation, ran thus;
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12 Dec 2007
**3. Are people in Transition Initiatives forming “public” institutions like town banks, business incubators, workshops, working bees, getting-rid-of-homelessness etc committees?**
In Transition Town Totnes at the moment, some of these are being addressed. Forming new banks is very very difficult in the UK given the regulations, but the town already has a Credit Union, and we are looking into the creation of new investment models that can allow people to invest their money in such a way as to support the relocalisation process. The Totnes Pound is, I suppose, a kind of ‘public institution’, and is currently setting up as a Community Interest Company (CIC). One of the most exciting developments is that TTT,
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**Public Meeting: How thinking about the climate crisis needs to change.**
