Archive for August, 2006

Overview: The Kinsale 2021: Energy Descent Action Plan

Below is a table summarising the timetabled recommendations in the Kinsale 2021: Energy Descent Action Plan.  Thanks to Josephine Mountwinter, Jessica Harrison's mother for producing this.
Background: Kinsale, a small seaside town in Ireland, was the first community in the world to adopt a plan for dealing with Peak Oil.  But it was more than just [...]

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Energy descent in Wonthaggi

 This from the August 22 edition of the South Gippsland Sentinel Times:

Community lunch questions future
How to plan to live better and more economically, high levels of consumerism, and questions of future energy use, were just several of the topics covered at a fascinating community lunch, held at Mitchell Community House in Wonthaggi last week.
Guest speaker [...]

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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

This was a post about upcoming screenings, but I've edited it into a short report back.
 

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is absolutely must-see doco on Cuba's transition into a lower energy society. Richard Heinberg, peak oil guru and recent visitor to these shores, said:
"Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil [...]

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upcoming: PEAK OIL SEMINAR with Chris Skrebowski

“spiralling petrol prices are the greatest worry of my political life” - John Howard, The Age, 1st August, 2006.
The City of Yarra invites you to a FREE Seminar.
With demand for oil rising globally, particularly from China and India, the frenzied search for new oilfields has   largely come up empty.
Chris Skrebowski from the Energy Institute, London  (and [...]

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Unlearning stupidity?

Some thoughts on schooling, the PR industry and trying to grow up rapidly for an era of energy descent. 
I just watched A Century of the Self - Happiness Machines.
It's really one of the best doco's I've seen and that's just the first part of 4.  (You can download the whole series at [...]

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Given enough minds… Bridging the ingenuity gap

One thing I've been thinking about for an EDAP is the importance of colloborative research.  (I've started slowly working on a wiki page for ideas for structuring it.)
This article by Hassan Musam and Mark Tovey goes really deep into both social organisation and technological tools for collaboration:
Peak oil. Climate change. Air pollution and top soil [...]

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