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31 Mar 2006
The response to Wednesday’s post has been amazing, a wealth of intelligent and insightful comments. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. I had just two things I wanted to briefly add, which have come to me since on the subject. The first was a quote a found last night when I opened my copy of David C. Korten’s book “The Post-Corporate World”, it comes from Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers and sums up beautifully what some people have been saying;
>”We encourage others to change only if we honour who they are now. We ourselves engage in change only as we discover that we might be more of who we are by becoming something different”.
It is worth reading a few times. It yields more insight each time I read it…
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29 Mar 2006
I gave a talk in Kingsbridge in Devon on Sunday, the sequel to a screening of The End of Suburbia that my friend Naresh presented last week. I began my talk by asking how many people there had seen the film. 90% of hands went up. “How was it?” I asked. A long silence. “Shocking” said one man. People had had a fairly sleepless week between the film and my talk. I’m sure those of you who have shown the film will be familiar with this reaction. It raises the very important question, which I want to explore in this piece, to what extent should we use fear as a tool to motivate change in people?
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28 Mar 2006
We all love James Howard Kunstler. Even if we might not always agree with him, his dry and ascerbic take on the world is one of peak oil’s more entertaining voices. He has single-handedly elevated peak oil cynicism to an art form. I just spent a side-splitting and eye-moistening half an hour going through the”Eyesore of the Month” feature on his website. As one who shares his revulsion with most modern architecture, I really enjoyed his sharp wit and ‘take-no-prisoners’ assault on all that is worst about 21st century architecture. One of the things we will be able to celebrate about a post peak society
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22 Mar 2006
The Cultivate Centre in Dublin is one of the most innovative, cutting edge and inspiring sustainability centres in the world. Every year they organise the Convergence Festival, which attracts amazing speakers from around the world, and is widely seen as being at the forefront of sustainability thinking. This year is no exception. April’s Convergence is called ‘Learning To Live With Less Fossil Fuel’, and includes some excellent speakers and events. I would like to highly recommend the day on April 20th called **‘Skilling Up for Powerdown’**,
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22 Mar 2006
Being able to admit that we made a mistake is a rare gift these days. Politicians cling on to decisions that everyone else knew to be a disastrous mistake months ago (Tony Blair’s recent restating that he was right to invade Iraq being a timely example). There is something rare and somehow wonderful about someone who held one position very strongly taking a fresh stock of the situation and deciding that actually, in all honesty, that position is untenable, and that despite the stick they’re going to get for changing their mind, they feel they have to do it.
I was very touched to read an excellent article in Monday’s Independent by Johann Hari
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The response to Wednesday’s post has been amazing, a wealth of intelligent and insightful comments. Thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts. I had just two things I wanted to briefly add, which have come to me since on the subject. The first was a quote a found last night when I opened my copy of David C. Korten’s book “The Post-Corporate World”, it comes from Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers and sums up beautifully what some people have been saying;
