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21 Nov 2005
I just found a version of this article, Urban versus Rural Sustainability by Toby Hemenway on the web and had to post this up here, as you could kind of say it changed my life….
The Permaculture Activist magazine has a dubious knack of popping through my letter box at points in my life when I seem to be really ready for its contents, just not aware of the fact yet. Last November, a month after the house I had spent the last two years building had been razed to the ground by an unknown arsonist, the new issue popped though the door. The theme of the issue? Fire and Catastrophe. I had been going through a whole post-End of Suburbia thinking process around the issue of
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16 Nov 2005
The Cultivate Centre in Dublin is the sustainability centre that all others should aspire to. It grew out of the pioneering work of Davie Philip and Caoimhim Woods who set up the Low Impact Co-operative way back in 1996 (if my memory serves me correctly) organising the first Sustainable Earth Fair in Dublin. Since then it has grown and grown, with more and more events of a higher and higher profile, publications and now a wonderful urban sustainability centre right in the heart of Dublin.
Drawing in the leading speakers from all over the world to a series of timely and powerful conferences and seminars, they have done much to put sustainability on the map in Ireland. As well as their events programme, they also run a shop, an urban garden, a series of outreach courses at another venue in Dublin, and a very useful website. They also produce occasional publications of the highest quality, which are both accessible and informative. Their latest, entitled “Optimising Energy Use – powering down in response to peak oil and global warming”, is excellent.
Featuring articles by Colin Campbell, Torbjorn Lahti, Graham Strouts, David Fleming, Richard Douthwaite, Patrick Holford and myself, among others, it gives a very clear overview of the challenge of peak oil but also of the possibilities that follow from it. It is beautifully designed and a joy to behold altogether. To order a copy click here
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9 Nov 2005
Lisa Rayner’s article on permaculture and trauma therapy is well worth a read.
It highlights some very interesting comparisons between the development of trauma theory to treat people with deep trauma, such as post traumatic stress disorder, and permaculture as a tool for dealing with the trauma of peak oil. The whole question of how to help people through what for some people will be deeply traumatic changes in the way our world works is a very important area that I am exploring as part of the research I am doing. I am in dialogue with a number of people with interesting things to say on the matter, and I will share insights from that whenever possible. This article raises some interesting questions for deeper exploration.
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9 Nov 2005
I always enjoy Maddy Harland’s editorials in the Permaculture Magazine, and this new issue’s (No.46) is no different. This latest issue has a distinct Peak Oil flavour, with articles by Colin Campbell, David Holmgren and myself. I want to point out the last paragraph of the editorial, as I think it sets out very well, as does David Holmgren’s fantastic article in the same issue, how permaculture and peak oil are coming together in a very dynamic and exciting way. I think that peak oil is what permaculture has been waiting for, and that the peak oil movement desperately needs permaculture. I think we have come of age, and need to ramp permaculture up to the next level.
Maddy writes,
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8 Nov 2005
The question of whether or not the UK could ever be self sufficient in food is obviously a question of great importance to the work of designing energy descent strategies. The subject was touched upon in a recent series of pieces on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme, for the week from Mon 31st – Friday 4th November. You can still hear it at Radio 4s Listen Again section.
What was particularly interesting
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