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Archive for “Peak Oil” category
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22 Mar 2006
The Cultivate Centre in Dublin is one of the most innovative, cutting edge and inspiring sustainability centres in the world. Every year they organise the Convergence Festival, which attracts amazing speakers from around the world, and is widely seen as being at the forefront of sustainability thinking. This year is no exception. April’s Convergence is called ‘Learning To Live With Less Fossil Fuel’, and includes some excellent speakers and events. I would like to highly recommend the day on April 20th called **‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’**,
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21 Mar 2006
Although I do attempt to read the newspapers and keep abreast with what’s happening in the world, it is one of those universal laws that the time when you actually find the really interesting bits in the papers is when they are about 4 months out of date and you are using them either to start a fire or to mulch your garden. Any time I have used a lot of newspaper for ‘mass mulchings’, be it around new trees, in a new forest garden or wherever, I always end up heading home with a pocket bulging with articles to read at more leisure later. Starting the fire yesterday, my eye was caught by this advert for Quantas Airlines, which, although not meant in the way most readers of this site will interpret it, made me laugh, as being unintentionally profoundly honest.
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20 Mar 2006
It seems despite all the talk of peak oil, that the UK’s downfall might actually end up coming about from peak gas. This last week has been quite extraordinary, with the beginnings of a real crisis for the UK energy sector, not that, unless you were reading the Guardian over the last week, you would actually have heard much about it.
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16 Mar 2006
If you want to find out more about peak oil and how to prepare yourself on a personal level for the coming transitions, you might well enjoy an upcoming weekend course hosted by my fellow Totnesian peak oil bod, Naresh Giangrande entitled **’Living on the Cusp’**. The weekend course takes place
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16 Mar 2006
Of course those of you who read **TransitionCulture** from the US will have seen this film months ago, but it only just reached the misty shores of South Devon. I went to see it last night at Paignton Cinema, and thought I would attempt to record some thoughts about it. Trailed on some peak oil websites on its release as the first “peak oil movie”, it was clearly something that had to be seen, not least to see how Hollywood might deal with such a complex issue. George Clooney was one of the producers, and it is one of a couple of quite politically thoughtful films he has made recently. But is it any good?
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The Cultivate Centre in Dublin is one of the most innovative, cutting edge and inspiring sustainability centres in the world. Every year they organise the Convergence Festival, which attracts amazing speakers from around the world, and is widely seen as being at the forefront of sustainability thinking. This year is no exception. April’s Convergence is called ‘Learning To Live With Less Fossil Fuel’, and includes some excellent speakers and events. I would like to highly recommend the day on April 20th called **‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’**,
