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Archive for “Peak Oil” category
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10 Feb 2006
OK, its a tenuous link but stick with me. Last week President Bush announced that the US is ‘addicted to oil’. He unveiled his version of what is going to be done about it, which doesn’t really come close to what actually needs to be done, and seems to amount to letting his friends build lots more nuclear power stations to produce hydrogen to keep the cars on the road, but I suppose we should see it as some kind of a start. It did however raise for me the question as to what we ‘peakniks’ are supposed to do once everyone cops on as to the reality of peak oil. If George Bush
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10 Feb 2006
*Eleagnus ebbingei* is one of the classic permaculture plants, a nitrogen fixing, evergreen, early fruiting windbreak shrub. Ken Fern in his book ‘Plants for a Future’ talks about finding a mature bush on the roundabout near Heathrow airport covered in juicy red berries in April, a time of year when most other fruits barely even have leaves on. When in Ireland I did a few permaculture designs for people and always included some of this plant, telling the clients what a wonderful plant it was and how they were going to love the berries. None of them ever saw a single berry. I was beginning to think that it was a myth, and that *Eleagnus ebbingei* was purely a decorative shrub with no fruiting abilities, when
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8 Feb 2006
Louise at **Transition Design** in Kinsale recently gave a presentation to the Town Council as a follow on from the night in December when the Council voted unanimously to adopt their proposal that Kinsale begin working towards becoming a ‘Transition Town’, and begin to implement the proposals set out in the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan. They had asked her to cost and set out a plan of work for the next year, with a view to some possible funding from the Council.
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8 Feb 2006
Denial about oil peak takes many forms. One of my favourites was the elderly man I had a conversation with about peak oil, me being under the impression that we were having a mutually understood intelligent two way conversation about the impacts of a diminishing fuel supplies on the UK economy. At the end he said, in all seriousness, “yes, Peak Oil, I used some of that on a table once, it came up lovely”.
My friend Graham tells a story of a woman with whom
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7 Feb 2006
I’m sure you read my offerings over the last week thinking “he never mentioned the ……..”, or “how could he not have included the …….”. Its over to you now. What would be your essential tree for life beyond oil? What was the glaring omission for you? Which one would be an essential part of your energy descent toolkit? Do share with us you choice of tree and why…
Picking five trees was a tough one, a veritable forest of wonderful trees had to be put to one side. I had to leave out plums, and greengages, possibly the single most delicious fruit that will grow in the British Isles. I had to neglect to mention the
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OK, its a tenuous link but stick with me. Last week President Bush announced that the US is ‘addicted to oil’. He unveiled his version of what is going to be done about it, which doesn’t really come close to what actually needs to be done, and seems to amount to letting his friends build lots more nuclear power stations to produce hydrogen to keep the cars on the road, but I suppose we should see it as some kind of a start. It did however raise for me the question as to what we ‘peakniks’ are supposed to do once everyone cops on as to the reality of peak oil. If George Bush
Louise at **Transition Design** in Kinsale recently gave a presentation to the Town Council as a follow on from 
