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Archive for “Waste/Recycling” category
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24 May 2006
**Peter Harper** has been at the Centre for Alternative Technology for over 15 years as a landscape designer, director of biological research and now as Head of Research and Innovation. He is author of many articles and of the classic “Natural Garden Book”, which I think is now tragically out of print. He lives in Machynlleth has done a great job of renovating his traditional cottage as ‘greenly’ as possible, as well as creating a beautiful and productive garden.
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5 May 2006
I’d like you to imagine yourself about 50 years from now, in a post-peak world. We are assuming for the purpose of this post that everything more or less worked out OK, we managed to contract our economy and our consumer addictions to a point where our quality of life is much improved, where we live in local economies, with local food, local products, local currency and so on.
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14 Mar 2006
So, over the last few days I have offered five possible things that can be done with soon-to-be-redundant oil barrels, I’d be fascinated to hear yours. What do you use them for? How have you seen other people using them? People use them for all sorts of things, and of course I have only scratched the surface. The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude made a huge art installation called “The Wall” that consisted of 13,000 oil barrels formed into a huge wall. I’m sure there are other far more practical and less ridiculous uses to which they can be put, so do let us know, from the sublime to the ridiculous, anything goes….
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13 Mar 2006
In an interview with Paul McCartney (which you can hear here) , he talks about the song ‘Yesterday’ (one of my least favourite Beatles songs…). He said he woke up one day with this song in his head, and couldn’t think where he had heard it, and went around asking his friends what this song was. He’d play it to them and they would all tell him they hadn’t heard it before. After a while he realised he must have made it up, but still wondered if one day the person who wrote the original would get in touch (now there’s an idea for making a few quid…). In putting together this, the last in the Top Five Things To Do With Oil Barrels series, I want to offer an idea which, likewise, I am sure is not mine, but which, try as I might, I am unable to find where it came from.
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9 Mar 2006
An energy descent culture will need to entertain itself of an evening, as plasma screen televisions, home cinema units, indeed most electricity based entertainment will be out. We will need to rediscover the art of making music rather than consuming it through electronic media. Oil drums will come in very handy, we can make them into steel drums. Steel drum music originated in Trinidad, and is now a world wide phenomenon. It has evolved into doing some very innovative modern interesting stuff too. On DJ Shadow’s Diminishing Returns CD (hard to get, but usually available on EBay) he has a version of Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’ played by a steel band, which is rather wonderful.
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**Peter Harper** has been at the Centre for Alternative Technology for over 15 years as a landscape designer, director of biological research and now as Head of Research and Innovation. He is author of many articles and of the classic “Natural Garden Book”, which I think is now tragically out of print. He lives in Machynlleth has done a great job of renovating his traditional cottage as ‘greenly’ as possible, as well as creating a beautiful and productive garden.
