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Archive for “Localisation” category
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1 Nov 2006
**Powerdown and Permaculture – At the Cusp of Transition.
An Article by Rob Hopkins.**
Here is an article about permaculture and energy descent work that I wrote which appears in the latest issue of Permaculture Magazine which is released today, a milestone for the magazine, its 50th issue. Many congratulations to Tim, Maddy and their team for making it this far and for providing us with such a wonderful magazine over the years. You can either read the article below or see the pdf of it as it appears in the magazine (here).
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30 Oct 2006
This week Transition Town Totnes turns its focus to building and to housing, with 2 events. This Wednesday evening at 8pm in St Johns Church in Bridgetown is an event called **”Building Locally; the potential of natural building materials”**. The speakers are Rob Hopkins of Transition Town Totnes, Gareth Walton of the Devon Sustainable Building Initiative, and Jim Carfrae, the builder of a gorgeous strawbale house in Totnes. The cost is £3. The second event
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30 Oct 2006
**“Less is a Four Letter Word
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25 Oct 2006
Thanks to Ben Boyd for pointing out a very nice short piece by Hana Loftus about the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan at WorldChanging.com. It is very enthusiastic about the whole thing, concluding *”I wrote a while back about the big-picture thinking of Mayer Hillman and how we need to radically contract our energy use. Here’s how to do it in practice”*. Thanks for that Ben (and Hana!).
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25 Oct 2006
I am delighted to be able to finally make available copies of the dissertation I have been working on over the last 7 months, which is called **’Energy Descent Pathways: Evaluating potential responses to Peak Oil‘**. It is, I think, quite a ground-breaking piece of work, looking at peak oil but also beyond it, which Richard Heinberg has described it as *”an extremely valuable resource for community leaders and other policy makers, all of whom must make the energy transition their first priority in the years ahead”*.
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Here is an article about permaculture and energy descent work that I wrote which appears in the latest issue of Permaculture Magazine which is released today, a milestone for the magazine, its 50th issue. Many congratulations to Tim, Maddy and their team for making it this far and for providing us with such a wonderful magazine over the years. You can either read the article below or see the pdf of it as it appears in the magazine (here).
