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5 Sep 2006
**The First Town in The UK to Plan for Energy Descent … Transition Town Totnes is Launched!**
Civic Hall, Totnes.
Wednesday 6th September. 8pm. Free.
An evening launch for the Energy Descent Planning process for Totnes, with Rob Hopkins of **Transition Culture** and Dr. Chris Johnstone, author of Find Your Power, whose work specialises in addictions and ecopsychology, as well as publishing the Great Turning Times, a regular newsletter on the psychology of change and responses to environmental problems.
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4 Sep 2006
I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: Nuts and Bolts by Zachary Nowak, posted recently on the ever indispensible Energy Bulletin, perhaps it is time to deconstruct the whole survivalist argument, which is still a strong theme in the peak oil movement.
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1 Sep 2006
The flyer for Transition Town Totnes is now done, is at the printers, and will be ready tomorrow. I thought those of you outside of the ‘pop into Totnes and pick one up’ radius would like to see it. It was done by the very creative, professional and patient Simon Blackler of Idealic in Ivybridge. Idealic is a South West Devon design agency specialising in corporate identity, concerned about the affects of climate change, wanting to work with companies who wish to work more sustainably, who I recommend wholeheartedly. You can download it here. Do feel free to print out and distribute or circulate in whatever way seems appropriate.
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1 Sep 2006
I have ruminated before here about how we might entertain ourselves when the highly energy intensive ways we choose these days become unviable. With the news that the craze for plasma screen TVs is creating an energy demand requiring two new nuclear power stations, it may be instructive to consider some modes of collective entertainment that will still be feasible beyond the Age of Cheap Oil. I had the great pleasure the other week of taking my kids to see a great example of this, Giffords Circus, performing on the common at Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire.
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31 Aug 2006
**Life After Oil: Breaking the Habit. A Residential Course at Schumacher College, Devon, UK. November 12-24, 2006**
**Teachers:** David Fleming, Ron Oxburgh, Michael Meacher, Richard Heinberg & Rob Hopkins.
*I am reposting the information about this upcoming course because I thought that you might be interested to know that I’ve been asked to do a bit of teaching on it. I’ll be teaching a day on Energy Descent Planning at the beginning of the second week. For those who wrote in suggesting the H2 tour could become the H3 tour were I to head down to Australia too, this is an opportunity to see a different H2 combination!*
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**The First Town in The UK to Plan for Energy Descent … Transition Town Totnes is Launched!**
