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Archive for “Peak Oil” category
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28 Nov 2006
**What role to communities such as Totnes have in preparations for peak oil?**
What I see happening in towns like Totnes in the UK and Willits in California are test-tube experiments for what the rest of society is going to have to do. Right now we are talking about very few communities who are making some groping experimental steps in the direction of energy transition, but very soon every town, every city in the world is going to be faced with the need for making the same kinds of choices. So having at least a few communities that have undertaken the process voluntarily and proactively and have tested out the options and found ways of doing this successfully it is going to be very important. These towns will be the way-showers for rest of us.
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27 Nov 2006
**An Interview with Richard Heinberg – 23rd November 2006 – Part 1**.
While Richard Heinberg was at Schumacher College teaching part of the **Life After Oil** course I was lucky to be able to take 40 minutes of his time to do an interview with him. We explored various aspects of the peak oil challenge before moving on to explore solutions, in particular community-initiated responses, such as the work Richard is contributing to in Oakland, as well as the emerging process here in Totnes. Part One, posted today, focuses on peak oil, and was recorded the day after his talk in Totnes Civic Hall, which was attended by over 350 people.
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24 Nov 2006
I write this post somewhat haggard and bleary eyed. One of the joyful spinoffs of fatherhood is those nights where one or more of your children are up vomiting all night. Last night was a supreme exhibition of synchronised vomiting, 2 children awake most of the night, copious puke and very little sleep. Now, the morning after the night before (or something), having spent some rather unpleasant time rinsing sheets and towels, I am reminded of a discussion I had while teaching on the Life After Oil course at Schumacher College this week (of which more in later posts). A post-peak world will, by necessity, mean less electronic ‘stuff’, and while I would reluctantly but understandingly kiss goodbye to mobile phones, TVs, computers and toasted sandwich machines, you would need a crowbar to separate me from my washing machine.
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23 Nov 2006
I am delighted to be able to tell you about the upcoming Soil Association conference, which will be held in Cardiff from the 25th to the 27th January 2007. The theme of the conference is **One Planet Agriculture: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future**, and I have been very involved in designing the list of speakers and the theme for the event. It is a seminal moment for the Soil Association, being their 60th Anniversary conference. That they have put peak oil and relocalisation centre stage is a visionary and timely move. Speakers include Colin Campbell, Richard Heinberg,
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21 Nov 2006
**An Interview with Michael Meacher MP, Schumacher College, Dartington, Devon, 18th November 2006.**
**Michael Meacher** has been Labour Member of Parliament for Oldham West and Royton since 1970. He was Minister of State for the Environment between May 1997 and June 2003, and has been very outspoken on issues of peak oil and climate change. I managed to grab a short interview with him while he was eating his lunch at Schumacher College during his one day visit to the Life After Oil course and ask him for his thoughts on peak oil and localisation.
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What I see happening in towns like Totnes in the UK and Willits in California are test-tube experiments for what the rest of society is going to have to do. Right now we are talking about very few communities who are making some groping experimental steps in the direction of energy transition, but very soon every town, every city in the world is going to be faced with the need for making the same kinds of choices. So having at least a few communities that have undertaken the process voluntarily and proactively and have tested out the options and found ways of doing this successfully it is going to be very important. These towns will be the way-showers for rest of us.
