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Archive for “Education for Sustainability” category
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27 Apr 2006
Fuelling the Future was a 2 day conference that I intiated and, with a wonderful team of co-organisers and a larger team of lovely volunteers, made a reality in Kinsale last summer. I still meet people who talk about the event as one of the most uplifting they had ever been to. For me it was a kind of parting gift to Kinsale, as I was about to move to the UK, and it was also an opportunity to invite some of my heroes to what my idea of a peak oil conference was (inspired, albeit at a distance, by the Community Solution conference in Oregon).
It all came about when I heard that David Holmgren was to be in Europe that summer, and then later that Richard Heinberg was in Dublin around the same time.
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23 Mar 2006
Those good folks at Cultivate in Dublin have been busy organising what promises to be an excellent permaculture course. I am teaching the first weekend, and the rest is taught by an assortment of excellent teachers. It promises to give a very rounded immersion in permaculture, yet being designed as a series of well-spread out weekends will make it available to people unable to take the more usual 2 weeks off. Teachers include Andy Langford and Liora Adler of Gaia University, Richard Webb, Gus Legge and Graham Strouts, as well as myself. The course will be built on the foundations of permaculture as a response to peak oil, and if you really want to start assembling your post-peak tool kit, this is the number 1 place to start. Full details below…
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22 Mar 2006
The Cultivate Centre in Dublin is one of the most innovative, cutting edge and inspiring sustainability centres in the world. Every year they organise the Convergence Festival, which attracts amazing speakers from around the world, and is widely seen as being at the forefront of sustainability thinking. This year is no exception. April’s Convergence is called ‘Learning To Live With Less Fossil Fuel’, and includes some excellent speakers and events. I would like to highly recommend the day on April 20th called **‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’**,
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16 Mar 2006
If you want to find out more about peak oil and how to prepare yourself on a personal level for the coming transitions, you might well enjoy an upcoming weekend course hosted by my fellow Totnesian peak oil bod, Naresh Giangrande entitled **’Living on the Cusp’**. The weekend course takes place
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15 Mar 2006
**Review of Building with Cob – a step-by-step guide. Adam Weisman and Katy Bryce. Green Books. 2006.**
In my work teaching natural building I often found myself using cookery metaphors. Clay plasters need to be mixed to a consistency of cookie dough, clay slip needs to be like a runny yoghurt rather than milk, a good final cob should be like a loaf of bread… people relate to this much more than technical lists of mixes. It gives natural building a familiarity and a resonance that clicks with people, in the same way that Jamie Oliver on telly knocking a 2 minute chocolate mousse together does. The modern cook book is a very different thing from a Mrs Beaton first edition. Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson; the books produced by these celebrity chefs are awash with gorgeous pictures of delicious meals, groovy chefs at work, they make good food beautiful, everyday and relevant.
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Fuelling the Future was a 2 day conference that I intiated and, with a wonderful team of co-organisers and a larger team of lovely volunteers, made a reality in Kinsale last summer. I still meet people who talk about the event as one of the most uplifting they had ever been to. For me it was a kind of parting gift to Kinsale, as I was about to move to the UK, and it was also an opportunity to invite some of my heroes to what my idea of a peak oil conference was (inspired, albeit at a distance, by the Community Solution conference in Oregon). 
