Transition Culture

20 Feb 2006

New Permaculture Activist focuses on Peak Oil

The ever-wonderful **Permaculture Activist** magazine focuses on a particular aspect of permaculture in each issue. The latest edition, No. 59, focuses on peak oil. It contains a wealth of interesting material, some of which, such as Lisa Rayner’s article on Trauma Theory and my piece on Designing Energy Descent Pathways will already be familiar to TransitionCulture regulars, while there are many other insightful pieces such as Thom Hartmann’s exploration of the ‘something will save us’ mindset, and a very good piece on the lessons we can learn from Cuba. If you are interested in TransitionCulture-type stuff and don’t already subscribe to the Activist, do yourself a favour, you can do so either here or here.

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14 Feb 2006

A Course not to be Missed – Starhawk and Penny Livingston in the UK.

I want to wholeheartedly recommend the following course. I won’t be making a habit of promoting courses in the main posts of this site, so I have set up an ‘Courses That Might Interest You’ category in the Essential Info section of this site. Do let me know of any that you feel should go in there. This is more than just a course however, this is a rare opportunity to learn essential skills and insights from two of the most skillful and insightful women around.

**EARTH ACTIVIST TRAINING – 15th – 29th July 2006
Ragmans Lane, Gloucestershire, UK.
with Starhawk & Penny Livingston- Stark**

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10 Feb 2006

Peak Oil, the Loch Ness Monster and Energy Descent.

OK, its a tenuous link but stick with me. Last week President Bush announced that the US is ‘addicted to oil’. He unveiled his version of what is going to be done about it, which doesn’t really come close to what actually needs to be done, and seems to amount to letting his friends build lots more nuclear power stations to produce hydrogen to keep the cars on the road, but I suppose we should see it as some kind of a start. It did however raise for me the question as to what we ‘peakniks’ are supposed to do once everyone cops on as to the reality of peak oil. If George Bush

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9 Feb 2006

Motivating Sustainable Consumption Report

I have been reading this document recently and it is wonderful, so I thought I would recommend it. Motivating Sustainable Consumption is a report produced by Professor Tim Jackson for the Sustainable Development Research Network. It explores the latest thinking and research relating to what it is that affects peoples behaviour in relation to environmental issues. How can policies and processes best influence people in changing their lifestyles?

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8 Feb 2006

Next Steps in Kinsale…

Louise at **Transition Design** in Kinsale recently gave a presentation to the Town Council as a follow on from the night in December when the Council voted unanimously to adopt their proposal that Kinsale begin working towards becoming a ‘Transition Town’, and begin to implement the proposals set out in the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan. They had asked her to cost and set out a plan of work for the next year, with a view to some possible funding from the Council.

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