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Archive for “The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent” category
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12 Jan 2007
Despite one overexcitable **Transition Culture** reader writing that *”‘Organising the great unleashing’ …has the added bonus of sounding totally filthy”*, it is, perhaps disappointingly, nothing of the sort. We use the term ‘Unleashing’ because that is the sense that this event should embody. Through the first 2 stages, ideally you now have a groundswell of people fired up about peak oil and climate change and eager to start **doing something**. The aim of this event is to generate a momentum which will propel your initiative forward for the next period of its work.
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8 Jan 2007
My name is Rob and I’m addicted to books. Yes, they lie around my house in piles several feet deep, and often loom perilously over my bed as I sleep nervously beneath. From the oceans of paper, staples and covers that surround me, every now and then a particular gem floats to the surface and does wonders inspiring new ideas and perspectives, and on occasion I like to share some of these with you in the hope that firstly you might find some similar worth in them, and also that you might write in and tell me about other gems that I have missed. I did this last New Year and it went down rather well, so here it is again.
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5 Dec 2006
I want to share an exercise with you that I did with my students on the **Skilling Up For Powerdown** evening course that I’ve been teaching in Totnes. I offer it in the hope that you might find it to be of use to you adapted to your own situation. It emerges from the work I have been doing exploring the connection between our collective relationship with oil and addiction, as laid out in Energy Descent Pathways. The aim of the exercise is to get people to really engage in creative thinking around the issues of how their lives rely on energy, and to think about how they might try to deal with that.
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4 Dec 2006
In this post I want to discuss an evolving theory I have which may illuminate some and enrage others. I have come to think that part of the reason behind the “die-off” perspective and the mind-set which thinks that Western civilisation is doomed because humanity is basically selfish and foolish, and that it is too late for humanity to do anything on the necessary scale is in fact that a generation of men are coming to realise on some level that they are almost entirely unequipped to face the challenge that peak oil creates.
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22 Nov 2006
Here is another exercise from **Earth Education** for getting people observing a woodland in a different way. String a length of washing line between different trees in the wood, wandering off through the trees. Tell the participants that they are all amazing artists, and have been invited to contribute to an exhibition in this, the most prestigious art gallery in the country.
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