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Archive for “The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent” category
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6 Jan 2006
Part of the research I am doing for my PhD looks at peak oil as a catalyst for transition. One of the big questions I am exploring is how people and communities (and therefore nations) make transitions, develop a culture of transition. As part of this, I am asking as many people as I can who would consider themselves to have some degree of ‘green’ awareness to tell me their stories of how they first became interesting in all this stuff. Please do tell me yours.
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5 Jan 2006
As you may know I am in the middle of doing an MSc, for which the dissertation will look at peak oil and how we engage communities in developing grassroots-led responses to it. There is a large gap in the peak oil literature in the area of how communities and organisations might be empowered to begin to design solutions. There is much thinking along these lines from areas as diverse as social change, transition management, community work, human evolutionary development, the anti-globalisation movement, spiritual thinking and eco-psychology that is relevant to this question. I have finished the **first draft of the first section** which is the literature review on peak oil. Inspired by Richard Heinberg‘s approach, I am putting it out there and inviting anyone who can be bothered to read it to offer comments and feedback, for which I would be very grateful. I will do likewise with drafts of the subsequent sections. You can access the document here. MSc Draft. Thank you for your time.
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31 Dec 2005
If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent. They are things that I have found to be useful recently, either in part or as a whole, and I hope they prove to be of use to you. They are in no particular order, and there are many others that could have gone in here instead. I am told making lists is a peculiarly nerdy male thing to do, as in Nick Hornby’s ‘High Fidelity’, but there you are. What to do. You might like to add below any others that you feel to be essential reads. Wishing you an abundant and peaceful New Year.
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21 Dec 2005
One last thing before I take my festive leave … Having said that I haven’t been able to find much in the way of people visualising the future that we actually want to see beyond the peak, you might like to have a look at AfterCulture, which attempts to do just that. It is very US focused, and it is coming from a particular perspective, and while it may not be my cup of tea particularly, it is quite thought provoking and interesting. See what you think. Some of the ideas are quite intriguing,
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20 Dec 2005
Developing community Energy Descent strategies, as has been discussed in previous posts, involves a community creating a vision of the future it wants. Arising from this is the need to facilitate the community taking the next step to create the future it has visioned. I would like to offer an exercise you might like to try to help this to happen.
It began life as an exercise in Skye and Robin Clanfield’s book “The Manual of Teaching Permaculture Creatively” called ‘bunyips’. I have evolved it further through an exercise I developed for the Mens Group I was part of in Ireland (hi fellas!), and here have adapted it further for use in Energy Descent work.
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If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent. They are things that I have found to be useful recently, either in part or as a whole, and I hope they prove to be of use to you. They are in no particular order, and there are many others that could have gone in here instead. I am told making lists is a peculiarly nerdy male thing to do, as in Nick Hornby’s ‘High Fidelity’, but there you are. What to do. You might like to add below any others that you feel to be essential reads. Wishing you an abundant and peaceful New Year.
