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Archive for “The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent” category
Showing results 181 - 185 of 230 for the category: The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent.
6 Jun 2006
**Margaret (or Meg) Wheatley** is a consultant and speaker, who has worked on management issues with a wide range of companies, governments and agencies in all continents. She is author of, among others, Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and most recently Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. She is one of the leading thinkers on how complexity theory and new insights from science can relate to change, both at the organisational level and the societal level. Her insights and writings have much to contribute to Energy Descent Planning and to relocalisation initiatives, and I am fortunate enough that she is at Schumacher College next week, and will be giving a public talk and has also agreed to meet me for an interview.
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6 Jun 2006
I’m delighted to see a discussion emerging within the peak oil community about the role of women and why they are so poorly reflected in the movement, (or whatever it is). When I organised the Fuelling the Future conference, it became clear that the gender balance was all over the place. All the speakers were men, while the majority of the organising team and the volunteers were women. In organising the event and selecting speakers I have to admit
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5 Jun 2006
Last weekend I took my two eldest boys on a River Safari, organised by Chris Salisbury of WildWise. It was billed a *”a gentle adventure on the tidal river Dart watching wildlife, and enjoying the beauty and tranquility. Canoeing, camping, storytelling and bushcraft”*. I have to say, it was wonderful. Utterly exhausting, yet wonderful.
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2 Jun 2006
Adam Fenderson (of Energy Bulletin) has just launched a new site called Eat the Suburbs, and one of the first postings on there is an Energy Descent Action Plan Primer. A very tidy overview of the idea, where it came from, who said what and why, and then some musings on how it might be applied to his hometown of Melbourne. It is very exciting to see this idea popping up around the world and people really thinking through how it might work. A very thorough and useful piece, a good place to point people towards who say “what IS an Energy Descent Action Plan?”
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1 Jun 2006
Global Public Media have just posted a talk by the great David Holmgren, the co-founder of permaculture, just after Hurricane Katrina, which explores peak oil, energy descent and permaculture. He sets out the history of the permaculture movement, its place in the larger sustainability movement, the concept of energy descent and our options forward from here. David is really at the cutting edge of thinking about solutions to peak oil and energy descent, his approach is practical, and his solutions are realistic, positive, but also address the profundity of the challenge. David has been a huge inspiration to my work, do have a listen.
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**Margaret (or Meg) Wheatley** is a consultant and speaker, who has worked on management issues with a wide range of companies, governments and agencies in all continents. She is author of, among others, Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and most recently Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. She is one of the leading thinkers on how complexity theory and new insights from science can relate to change, both at the organisational level and the societal level. Her insights and writings have much to contribute to Energy Descent Planning and to relocalisation initiatives, and I am fortunate enough that she is at Schumacher College next week, and will be giving a public talk and has also agreed to meet me for an interview.
