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Archive for “Peak Oil” category
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26 Sep 2006
**Adam Fenderson**, co-editor of Energy Bulletin, Eat the Suburbs host, Fuelling the Future volunteer and permaculture/energy descent grassroots activist fella has been branching out and now writes a regular piece for New Matilda, an alternative online magazine in Australia. His second one just came out, and is called “Can’t see the Future for the Trees”, and it is one of the finest demolitions of the biofuels arguments this side of George Monbiot’s Worse Than Fossil Fuels.
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25 Sep 2006
Here is some information about the next two events run by Transition Town Totnes. Following the successful launch at the beginning of September, the first aspect of relocalisation to come under focus is food. Our first event brings together three people with particular perspectives on the past, present and future of food in the area. This will hopefully serve to energise people for the first TTT Open Space, which follows three days later, which takes the form of a self-organising community think-tank on food issues. Do come along, details below.
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25 Sep 2006
Sometimes you read an article that just hits the nail on the head, and this is one of them. While packing his bags to head off the the Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Ohio, Aaron at Powering Down, a man with a passion for post-peak solutions and posting pictures of his new baby covered in mushed carrot, sat down to write a brief piece about the conference, and ended up, as is sometimes the way with blogging, turning out a wonderful piece about energy descent and relocalisation.
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22 Sep 2006
This weekend sees the first course run by the first Transition Town Totnes group, which calls itself **Heart and Soul – the Psychology of Change**. The group is exploring the psychological aspects of the post-peak transition, how to facilitate peoples’ collective journey through this transition. Focalised by Hilary Prentice and Sophy Banks, they have designed a programme of events for the next 3 months, including a launch evening on Tuesday October 17th.
Of their focus, they write;
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22 Sep 2006
I came across a quote by the great Aldo Leopold yesterday, from Sand County Almanac, one of the only things I have ever read of his that I disagree with. He wrote *”one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds”*. Poor guy… sounds like he did the wrong course. It is of course possible to teach a course on sustainability that leaves one utterly numb at the helplessness of the whole situation (the environmental degree I did would have done that had I not done a permaculture course prior to starting it), but it is also possible, (and indeed essential) to do the opposite.
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