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Archive for “Peak Oil” category
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11 Jul 2006
Last Friday’s Independent ran a piece called How a ‘green’ Britain should look in the year 2020, which reported on a study by ADAS, a body which specialises in supplying advice on the environment, which looked at how the Government’s present renewables targets will affect land use in the UK. The results were very disappointing, and highlighted the delusional thinking in Government circles in relation to the whole peak oil question. Reading between the lines is a skill we all need to learn and fast.
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7 Jul 2006
**Life After Oil: Breaking the Habit. A Residential Course at Schumacher College, Devon, UK. November 12-24, 2006**
**Teachers:** David Fleming, Ron Oxburgh, Michael Meacher, Richard Heinberg.
I’d like to recommend a rather exciting course which is taking place on my doorstep in November, bringing a number of great speakers to Totnes. If you have never before done a course at Schumacher College, there could be few better places to start than this course. The press release for the course reads, “this unique two-week course brings together leading thinkers in the field to address Peak Oil issues from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds.
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6 Jul 2006
I’m sure you all saw this when it came out, but not having a TV I only just saw it on the newly released DVD. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Jamie Oliver is a TV chef who undertook to try and change school dinners in the UK. The programme and the campaign that arose from it have had a huge effect on school meals in the UK, and, it could be argued, did more to put one issue on the public agenda than any single campaign run by an environmental group over the last 50 years. So, what can we learn from Jamie’s School Dinners that can help with energy descent planning projects?
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5 Jul 2006
**Bjorn Lomborg** is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial. Despite having been accused of scientific dishonesty by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, he is still out there, touting his free market ideas. This Sunday’s Observer newspaper included an article by Lomborg called Climate change can wait. World health Can’t.
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27 Jun 2006
A brief post this morning as I am off to Bristol today for a meeting with Dr Chris Johnstone and Dr. Stephen Rollnick. We are meeting to have a half-day dialogue about how insights from addiction treatment and in particular the approach known as Motivational Interviewing might inform energy descent approaches. For a taste of what we might be talking about, have a look at the thread on Stephen’s website which has been running for a month or so now, and which raises some interesting points. Click on ‘discussion’, you need to register, but then you are looking for the thread called “MI use in community responses to Peak Oil?” At some point our dialogue will be transcribed and posted here….
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Last Friday’s Independent ran a piece called How a ‘green’ Britain should look in the year 2020, which reported on a study by ADAS, a body which specialises in supplying advice on the environment, which looked at how the Government’s present renewables targets will affect land use in the UK. The results were very disappointing, and highlighted the delusional thinking in Government circles in relation to the whole peak oil question. Reading between the lines is a skill we all need to learn and fast.
