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Archive for “Economics” category
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7 Nov 2007
These are not good times for the dollar. The embattled currency, once seen as the global currency, is slipping, and is slipping fast. Around the world, nations and companies are withdrawing their support for the dollar. 85% of Iran’s oil deals are now conducted in currencies other than the dollar, as part of a programme of lessening the nation’s ‘dollar dependence’. At the same time, OPEC is considering creating a ‘basket of currencies for oil pricing’. This isn’t news really, OPEC nations have been moving away from the dollar for some time. The UAE bank is doing so, Syria and Kuwait are unpegging their currency peg to the dollar, and Venezuela is planning to sell oil in Euros. Yet none of this has really made the headlines. A recent development however, threatens to rock the dollar and really bring the issue to media attention.
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5 Nov 2007
This month’s Ecologist magazine is one of the best editions yet. It contains a superb piece called ‘Power On’ which offers a refreshingly frank assessment of the UK’s energy situation in the light of peak oil and climate change which is essential reading (I’ll link to it when an online version becomes available). It also has a long piece about Transition Initiatives which presents the whole approach in a very positive way. The Ecologist have kindly given us permission to reproduce this article below;
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15 Oct 2007
In talks I give and in other places, such as this website, I often enthuse about **Oil Vulnerability Auditing**, the tool developed by Simon Snowden at Liverpool University, but haven’t yet written much about it. I thought you might find it interesting to read the following short report by **Fiona Ward** of Transition Town Totnes who co-ordinated the OVA work in Totnes. Two pilots have so far been done, and in the report, Fiona reflects on the process and on what emerged from them.
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16 Aug 2007
Transition Town Totnes‘s Autumn calendar of events until Christmas is launched today. Building on the previous year’s highly successful work and programme of talks, events, Open Space days and workshops, the new programme looks like the best yet. Highlights include a talk by David Strahan, an evening called ‘Economics in Transition’, with Richard Douthwaite, Bernard Lietaer and David Boyle, Open Space days on transport, education and one for young people, a performance of the travelling show ‘This Farming Life’ which presents traditional song and archive film of farming on and around Dartmoor since 1920, and it all starts with TTT’s first birthday party, celebrating one year since the Unleashing. You can download the inside of the new flyer here and the outside here. The programme in full appears below, and printed copies will be available by September 1st.
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14 Aug 2007
What follows is a recent article by David Fleming (left) and Lawrence Woodward, which explores the concept of resilience which is so central to the Transition concept, in more detail. It also argues that the implementation of Tradeable Energy Quotas is a key part of the Transition, and indeed is the only way we can be sure it will happen. I am delighted to be able to post this article, and many thanks to the authors for allowing me to do so.
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These are not good times for the dollar. The embattled currency, once seen as the global currency, is slipping, and is slipping fast. Around the world, nations and companies are withdrawing their support for the dollar. 85% of Iran’s oil deals are now conducted in currencies other than the dollar, as part of a programme of lessening the nation’s ‘dollar dependence’. At the same time, OPEC is considering creating a ‘basket of currencies for oil pricing’. This isn’t news really, OPEC nations have been moving away from the dollar for some time. The UAE bank is doing so, Syria and Kuwait are unpegging their currency peg to the dollar, and Venezuela is planning to sell oil in Euros. Yet none of this has really made the headlines. A recent development however, threatens to rock the dollar and really bring the issue to media attention.
