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Archive for “Technology” category
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23 Oct 2006
**A Review of “Energy: Use Less, Save More” by Jon Clift & Amanda Cuthbert. Green Books, Totnes, Devon.**
This excellent little book’s eighty-four pages offer 100 tips for saving energy around the home. Highly readable, it covers all aspects of energy use in our lives, cooking, heating, keeping things cool, washing the dishes and so on. Its tips are all practical measures that you can go and do as soon as you have finished reading. It is designed to have a mainstream appeal, and its solutions appeal to that market. For example, the section on keeping things cool is full of excellent tips on making the most of your fridge/freezer, but it nowhere suggests that
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6 Oct 2006
Tomorrow between 10am and 4pm GMT at the Civic Hall in Totnes, Transition Town Totnes are holding our first Open Space day, a community think-tank called **How Will Totnes Feed Itself Beyond Cheap Oil?** The day follows on from the evening called ‘Feeding Totnes, past, present and future’ on Tuesday which attracted nearly 200 people to hear Guy Watson, Helena Norberg-Hodge and Mary Bartlett. The idea of the day is to use Open Space Technology, a powerful tool by which communities self-organise to discuss ideas and explore solutions, in this case in relation to food. Now, thanks to there being a wifi connection in Totnes, you can follow it online as it unfolds.
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27 Sep 2006
Over the last few weeks the newspapers have been full of stories about the supposed huge find of new oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, “between 3 and 15 billion barrels” (that’s quite a range…), most of them informing us that peak oil is now officially nonsense, and that we can all roll over and go back to sleep. The story is taken to show that there are still vast untapped reserves out there, that the peak oil ‘doomsters’ are wrong, and look, here in the Gulf of Mexico is the proof of that.
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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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1 Sep 2006
The flyer for Transition Town Totnes is now done, is at the printers, and will be ready tomorrow. I thought those of you outside of the ‘pop into Totnes and pick one up’ radius would like to see it. It was done by the very creative, professional and patient Simon Blackler of Idealic in Ivybridge. Idealic is a South West Devon design agency specialising in corporate identity, concerned about the affects of climate change, wanting to work with companies who wish to work more sustainably, who I recommend wholeheartedly. You can download it here. Do feel free to print out and distribute or circulate in whatever way seems appropriate.
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This excellent little book’s eighty-four pages offer 100 tips for saving energy around the home. Highly readable, it covers all aspects of energy use in our lives, cooking, heating, keeping things cool, washing the dishes and so on. Its tips are all practical measures that you can go and do as soon as you have finished reading. It is designed to have a mainstream appeal, and its solutions appeal to that market. For example, the section on keeping things cool is full of excellent tips on making the most of your fridge/freezer, but it nowhere suggests that 
