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30 Apr 2007
I travelled back from Lewes on the train last week, and was really struck by the amount of yellow fields I could see from the window as I passed. There is a lot of money going into the creation of a UK biodiesel sector, with very favourable subsidies, and the English countryside is becoming increasingly yellow. The farming press is abuzz with regular talk of the glittering potential future in biodiesel, and refineries are being built. It is a great green illusion (or delusion), although there are many others who can argue the case against biofuels far better than I can. David Strahan sums up the case against biofuels in his new book The Last Oil Shock (review pending) when he writes that they offer the prospect of “starving to death in a traffic jam”.
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24 Apr 2007
**Transition Values are Catching on Fast.** Western Morning News.
Original available here.
Geologists and environmentalists warn that the end of the era of cheap oil is nigh, with a change to the world’s dependency on crude likely to cause global upheaval. **Graeme Demianyk** speaks to the co-ordinator of a fast-growing movement, flowering in Totnes, that is adapting to this new world.
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23 Mar 2007
One of my favourite books is Charles Dickens’ **Great Expectations**. Dickens was a great social commentator, a literary scourge of the judiciary, the bankers, the evils of Victorian society, but also a great celebratory of its good side and of its good people. He was also one of the best creators of characters in the English language. I was flipping through it the other day, and came across the wonderful description of Mr Wemmick’s house. Mr Wemmick is a clerk who works for the vile Mr Jaggers, the lawyer, spending his days in a dark and dusty office in Newgate in London, and is described as having a face that looked as though it had been carved out of wood with a blunt chisel. His home life is a secret to his boss, and one day he takes Pip, our hero, back to his house for tea.
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19 Mar 2007
The concept of Transition Towns and the work underway here in Totnes was the subject of a recent edition of **The Two Degree Show** which is broadcast in London on Resonance 104.4FM and which you will find archived here. The archive is hosted by the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN) and is syndicated to other community radio stations. In the archive you will also find other previous interviews, including George Monbiot, Meyer Hillman and Mark Lynas.
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15 Mar 2007
**Q7. We haven’t touched on personal carbon credits, and I’m wondering – because Jeremy’s been moving in the inner circles of government, and David Milliband’s been talking about them – is this realistic, and what change can they make? I just think that if you could get everybody in to this kind of war spirit, like we all could get involved in doing this, it could actually be really encouraging. It’s a mind set and it’s a PR job.**
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I travelled back from Lewes on the train last week, and was really struck by the amount of yellow fields I could see from the window as I passed. There is a lot of money going into the creation of a UK biodiesel sector, with very favourable subsidies, and the English countryside is becoming increasingly yellow. The farming press is abuzz with regular talk of the glittering potential future in biodiesel, and refineries are being built. It is a great green illusion (or delusion), although there are many others who can argue the case against biofuels far better than I can. David Strahan sums up the case against biofuels in his new book The Last Oil Shock (review pending) when he writes that they offer the prospect of “starving to death in a traffic jam”.
