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26 Sep 2006
**Adam Fenderson**, co-editor of Energy Bulletin, Eat the Suburbs host, Fuelling the Future volunteer and permaculture/energy descent grassroots activist fella has been branching out and now writes a regular piece for New Matilda, an alternative online magazine in Australia. His second one just came out, and is called “Can’t see the Future for the Trees”, and it is one of the finest demolitions of the biofuels arguments this side of George Monbiot’s Worse Than Fossil Fuels.
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20 Sep 2006
Earlier this summer I went to the Big Green Gathering, a rather excellent festival in Somerset celebrating sustainability in its many forms. One of the highlights for me was a fantastic solar shower. One of the ‘groundrules’ at BGG was that all the energy came from solar and wind, and that no generators were allowed onsite. One enterprising soul created a fantastic solar shower and set it up by one of the main routes through the site, under the name of Spiral Sun Solar Showers
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19 Sep 2006
**Review of The Atlas of Climate Change – Mapping the world’s greatest challenge by Kirstin Dow and Thomas E Downing. Part of the Earthscan Atlas Series. 2006. Win a copy of this book – see below!**
Climate change and peak oil are two sides of the same coin, two faces of the same problem. Jeremy Leggett has referred to them as the two Great Oversights of our time. The true scale of the challenge facing us cannot be grasped without understanding both. Peak oil without climate change leads to the belief that our crisis is purely one of energy shortage, and that this can be got around by reaching for coal, coal-to-liquids, tar sands, and all the other most climatically destructive members of the fossil fuel family. Climate change without peak oil
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18 Sep 2006
I was very lucky at ASPO 5 to get to interview Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of what is probably the most famous environmental book in history, “Limits to Growth”. He had just given an excellent talk, and I managed to get him to come and sit under a stone pine tree for what I thought was going to be a fairly straightforward run through of the 8 ‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’ questions you’ve seen me ask various other people at **Transition Culture**, such as Fritjof Capra and Stephan Harding. As you’ll see though, Dennis’s view of peak oil and the environment is so gloomy that by the time of the second question, all my powerdown-centred questions that had worked so well before ended up becoming somewhat redundant!
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11 Sep 2006
**Here is an edited transcript of the talk that Chris Johnstone gave at the launch of Transition Town Totnes at Totnes Civic Hall on 6th September 2006.**
Although there is a practical side to energy descent, what I want to look at is the psychological side to energy descent. I’m going to talk for a short while, and then I’m going to introduce a process where you talk to each other, because you’re the people of Totnes, you’re going to be involved in this, and therefore it’s really important that you hear from each other what you think and feel about this. I’m going to offer a structured process that will last about 20 minutes and then we’ll have some time for questions at the end.
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**Adam Fenderson**, co-editor of Energy Bulletin, Eat the Suburbs host, Fuelling the Future volunteer and permaculture/energy descent grassroots activist fella has been branching out and now writes a regular piece for New Matilda, an alternative online magazine in Australia. His second one just came out, and is called “Can’t see the Future for the Trees”, and it is one of the finest demolitions of the biofuels arguments this side of George Monbiot’s Worse Than Fossil Fuels.
