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31 Dec 2005
If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent. They are things that I have found to be useful recently, either in part or as a whole, and I hope they prove to be of use to you. They are in no particular order, and there are many others that could have gone in here instead. I am told making lists is a peculiarly nerdy male thing to do, as in Nick Hornby’s ‘High Fidelity’, but there you are. What to do. You might like to add below any others that you feel to be essential reads. Wishing you an abundant and peaceful New Year.
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28 Dec 2005
In case you missed it, this is really worth watching. Peak Oil on **Newsnight**, 40 of the programme’s 50 minutes dedicated to it. It only stayed on the BBC website for a day, but luckily, Global Public Media copied it and you can watch it there. It was mostly excellent, and brought the peak oil concept before a UK mainstream audience for, I think (not having a telly myself I’m not the best person to ask…) the first time.
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21 Dec 2005
One last thing before I take my festive leave … Having said that I haven’t been able to find much in the way of people visualising the future that we actually want to see beyond the peak, you might like to have a look at AfterCulture, which attempts to do just that. It is very US focused, and it is coming from a particular perspective, and while it may not be my cup of tea particularly, it is quite thought provoking and interesting. See what you think. Some of the ideas are quite intriguing,
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20 Dec 2005
Developing community Energy Descent strategies, as has been discussed in previous posts, involves a community creating a vision of the future it wants. Arising from this is the need to facilitate the community taking the next step to create the future it has visioned. I would like to offer an exercise you might like to try to help this to happen.
It began life as an exercise in Skye and Robin Clanfield’s book “The Manual of Teaching Permaculture Creatively” called ‘bunyips’. I have evolved it further through an exercise I developed for the Mens Group I was part of in Ireland (hi fellas!), and here have adapted it further for use in Energy Descent work.
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20 Dec 2005
**Colin Campbell** (here looking full of Christmas cheer!) recently recorded an interview with **Global Public Media** which explores the Oil Depletion Protocol. It gives a very good overview of the Protocol and he also refers to the Kinsale Energy Descent process as a good example of what needs to be done as a response to peak oil. If you have never heard Colin before this gives a good introduction to him. GPM also recorded an interview with me last night which will be posted soon, I’ll let you know when that goes up. You can hear Colin’s interview here. If you never visited GPM before, you will find a wonderful resource of interviews and articles on all aspects of peak oil.
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If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent. They are things that I have found to be useful recently, either in part or as a whole, and I hope they prove to be of use to you. They are in no particular order, and there are many others that could have gone in here instead. I am told making lists is a peculiarly nerdy male thing to do, as in Nick Hornby’s ‘High Fidelity’, but there you are. What to do. You might like to add below any others that you feel to be essential reads. Wishing you an abundant and peaceful New Year.
**Colin Campbell** (here looking full of Christmas cheer!) recently recorded an interview with **
