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Archive for “Localisation” category
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28 Apr 2006
Things are moving ahead in Kinsale, some wonderful initiatives popping up. Louise of Transition Design has organised a seminar by Brian Wellar from Willits in California called **”How to move towards an Economically Localised Community”**. The event will take place on Saturday, 6th May 2006 at the Temperance Hall in Kinsale from 8:45am for 9am start, through to 5pm. It will be a wonderful opportunity to learn about the amazing work being done in Willits, one of the most advanced localisation projects in the world, and how their experience can help to deepen the work underway in Kinsale.
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28 Apr 2006
Thirty people gathered at Dublin’s Cultivate Centre on April 20th for a World Cafe facilitated event called ‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’. The day was part of the Convergence Festival “Learning to Live with Less Fossil Fuels”, and was billed as “a community energy descent planning conference”, the first such event ever. The day was ably facilitated by Tara and Micheal from Second Nature, and was very productive, raising many ideas and insights which I will touch on in forthcoming posts.
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26 Apr 2006
**Review of CPULs – Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes. Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities. Andre Viljoen (ed) 2005. Architectural Press.**
Great book, terrible title. Andre Viljoen has put together a book of the most profound importance at this point in history. How will we feed our cities beyond the age of cheap oil? Does the old concept that the cities are for people to live in and the countryside is for growing food in still have any relevance when our cheap transport system is no longer able to function? Viljon argues not. We should view our cities as much in terms of being productive spaces as we view our rural areas.
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25 Apr 2006
One of the most gorgeous buildings I have ever seen is the Swiss Cottage near Cahir in County Tipperary. It was built around 1810, and is a fine example of cottage orné, a style that was particularly fashionable among the well-to-do at the time. The cottage was originally part of the estate of Lord and Lady Cahir, and used for entertaining guests. As well as being a fine example of gorgeous architecture, it also offers a very useful allegory for the concept of Interdependence I wrote about yesterday in my review of the recent NEF report on the subject.
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24 Apr 2006
The UK Interdependence Report: How the world sustains the nation’s lifestyles and the price it pays by Andrew Simms, Dan Moran and Peter Chowla has just been published, and is essential reading for those of us promoting localised responses to peak oil. Produced by the excellent New Economics Foundation, it builds on the concept of ‘Ecological Debt’, as outlined in Andrew Simms’ book of the same name.
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Things are moving ahead in Kinsale, some wonderful initiatives popping up. Louise of Transition Design has organised a seminar by Brian Wellar from Willits in California called **”How to move towards an Economically Localised Community”**. The event will take place on Saturday, 6th May 2006 at the Temperance Hall in Kinsale from 8:45am for 9am start, through to 5pm. It will be a wonderful opportunity to learn about the amazing work being done in Willits, one of the most advanced localisation projects in the world, and how their experience can help to deepen the work underway in Kinsale.
