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31 Mar 2006
The response to Wednesday’s post has been amazing, a wealth of intelligent and insightful comments. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. I had just two things I wanted to briefly add, which have come to me since on the subject. The first was a quote a found last night when I opened my copy of David C. Korten’s book “The Post-Corporate World”, it comes from Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers and sums up beautifully what some people have been saying;
>”We encourage others to change only if we honour who they are now. We ourselves engage in change only as we discover that we might be more of who we are by becoming something different”.
It is worth reading a few times. It yields more insight each time I read it…
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30 Mar 2006
“Vote for Me – I’ll guarantee you less every year”. Not something you are likely to hear from your local politician. Even though some MPs, like Michael Meacher, talk about the reality of peak oil, they still cling to the concept of business as usual, not really taking on board the depth of its implications and the inevitable need for relocalisation and for economic contraction. At what stage will MPs start to acknowledge the inevitable fact that we have to start rethinking some very basic assumptions and start working out how to make relocalisation and contraction electable?
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29 Mar 2006
I gave a talk in Kingsbridge in Devon on Sunday, the sequel to a screening of The End of Suburbia that my friend Naresh presented last week. I began my talk by asking how many people there had seen the film. 90% of hands went up. “How was it?” I asked. A long silence. “Shocking” said one man. People had had a fairly sleepless week between the film and my talk. I’m sure those of you who have shown the film will be familiar with this reaction. It raises the very important question, which I want to explore in this piece, to what extent should we use fear as a tool to motivate change in people?
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24 Mar 2006
One of the things that strikes me as an essential part of researching energy descent plans is the question of when different things become viable as energy availability decreases (and thereby price rises). For example, at the moment it is not viable to start a market garden in the middle of Totnes, as it could never produce food at a price competitive with the supermarkets. However, at some point,
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23 Mar 2006
Those good folks at Cultivate in Dublin have been busy organising what promises to be an excellent permaculture course. I am teaching the first weekend, and the rest is taught by an assortment of excellent teachers. It promises to give a very rounded immersion in permaculture, yet being designed as a series of well-spread out weekends will make it available to people unable to take the more usual 2 weeks off. Teachers include Andy Langford and Liora Adler of Gaia University, Richard Webb, Gus Legge and Graham Strouts, as well as myself. The course will be built on the foundations of permaculture as a response to peak oil, and if you really want to start assembling your post-peak tool kit, this is the number 1 place to start. Full details below…
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The response to Wednesday’s post has been amazing, a wealth of intelligent and insightful comments. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. I had just two things I wanted to briefly add, which have come to me since on the subject. The first was a quote a found last night when I opened my copy of David C. Korten’s book “The Post-Corporate World”, it comes from Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers and sums up beautifully what some people have been saying;
