I sat down with Asha today and we quickly wrote down what we thought might be a few basic aims of an EDAP.  Probably needs a bit of work.  I put them up here for your comment.
[ UPDATE 26 Sept: I've updated the aims a bit, incorporated some of Rye's feedback ]
So we also listed […]

Re-localising our communities and food systems
Richard Heinberg and David Holmgren
Monday September 4th 2006 8.30am to 5.30pm Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street Northcote
While the historic peaking and decline in world oil supply is becoming more widely discussed in the media, it is a bad news story to rival climate change. Richard Heinberg […]

Writes Philli in California: 
Community Emergency Respoonce Team (CERT) is a federally sponsored program, by Citizen Corps, to increase emergency preparedness in any and all US communities. It's a fabulous and little-known organizing tool. Any community can start up a CERT program. A good way to maximize the effectiveness of the program is for the city […]

The Congress for the New Urbanism took place on Rhode Island 1-4 June 2006.
From wikipedia: 
New urbanism is an urban design movement whose popularity increased beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s.
There are some common elements of new urbanist design. New urbanist neighborhoods are walkable, and are designed to contain a diverse range of housing […]

Jago Dodson informs us via Energy Bulletin of his new report, written with colleague Neil Sipe,  examining the spatial vulnerability of Australian urban areas to fuel price and mortgage interest rate rises.
An earlier paper "established a basic method for assessing oil vulnerability via a spatial index that measured a combination of car dependence and socio-economic […]