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The wonderful Steve Bell hits the nail on the head again about the situation in Iraq. Brings to mind the talk by Stan Goff on Global Public Media where he says that an exit strategy from Iraq is not a strategy at all, but a command, ‘everybody out in three months’… .
Amid the ocean of ‘sustainable’ concrete salesmen, property developers and petrochemical insulation companies, three things stood out at EcoBuild as beacons of post-peak sanity. The first of these was the strawbale lecture theatre build by Barbara Jones and Bee Rowan of Amazon Nails. It was a beautiful example of strawbale building, with sections of the walls lovingly plastered. It was great to be able to do a talk about natural building in a strawbale theatre. They had built it in just two days, with sections of it being plastered with lime showing the different coats.
Aaron Nuline, who runs the excellent Powering Down blog recently participated in a ‘blogathon’ where he basically sat and posted blogs on his site all night in support of Trees for Life. Do send a donation in support of this particularly 21st Century way of raising money for charity. Fair play to the man for managing to think of anything interesting to say for such a long period of time. Indeed, some of the output he produced through no doubt bleary eyes was some of the finest I have yet read on his site, including stuff on David Holmgren, cloth nappies, mobile phones and eco-villages (all subjects close to my heart…), as well as this great cartoon. Have a look and then get your credit card out and support this noble (if not slightly bonkers) venture.
*A couple of months ago at **Transition Culture** I explored the fact that I and others had been unable to think of a movie that showed a positive example of how a post-peak world could be. We could think of plenty of Matrix-style nightmare scenarios, but nothing that looked at how a low-energy future could be in such a way as it might be both achievable and desirable. I was delighted therefore to read **Albert Bates**’ article, which he has kindly given permission for me to reproduce below. I finally got to see the film in question the other day, and concur with Albert’s take on it, as well as thinking what a great film it was… .*
As regular visitors will know, **TransitionCulture** is fascinated with the visioning of peak oil scenarios, helping people to replace their default nightmare scenarios with positive visions of how a peak oil world could be. We need to have a clear vision of where we are going in order to be able to embark on the journey, in the same way that if we are trying to entice a reluctant friend to come on holiday with us we will need to tell him about how wonderful the place we are going is, the great food, the scenery, the relaxing beaches. We are therefore delighted to be able to help promote **BeyondOil.com**’s First Annual “Who Knows? Things Might Get Better
